Dangerous times...

[SupremeSpirit_uk]

OK, I am from Dublin and I just wanted to see how this compares with the English cities and towns.

In the last month, there has been 6 gangland killings (The last one occuring on Thursday the 5th) in Dublin, 4 Bank/Securicor raids and a HUGE rise in crime.

Has anyone else ever expierienced this?

[SS5 Gohan]

once i think :confusedb :weirdblue

[SupremeSpirit_uk]

once i think :confusedb :weirdblue

Lucky you.

[Fearless]

:confusedb well i live in nottingham, really brings the country down, a killing almost every week, maybe 2, vandalism, robberies, i get really scared sometimes

[greatkioman]

:confusedb well i live in nottingham, really brings the country down, a killing almost every week, maybe 2, vandalism, robberies, i get really scared sometimes
the problem with east yorkshire is kids at my school smoke and druges

[SupremeSpirit_uk]

:confusedb well i live in nottingham, really brings the country down, a killing almost every week, maybe 2, vandalism, robberies, i get really scared sometimes

Yeah, it's really scary over here too. I go to school near where half the killings are.

[Hotwire_uk]

Well.. I'm from Belfast... need i explain further?

[bazzaredodge]

What is up with all these bank robberys in ireland... Its insane :lightbulb

anyways, I live a few miles in the country so im fine :)

[Fearless]

What is up with all these bank robberys in ireland... Its insane :lightbulb

anyways, I live a few miles in the country so im fine :)
not if you want to buy a game from your 'local' games store

[bigwig40]

OK, I am from Dublin and I just wanted to see how this compares with the English cities and towns.

In the last month, there has been 6 gangland killings (The last one occuring on Thursday the 5th) in Dublin, 4 Bank/Securicor raids and a HUGE rise in crime.

Has anyone else ever expierienced this?
not really i neva seen a killing in newcastle in my life

[ssj5gogeta]

Well in response to Kioman, smoking and drugs are a big part of a lot of senior schools. I knwo countless people from my school who are "stoners".

[Tommy Gun]

w00t, stoners!
lol

drugs are wrong kids, but alcohol is good, cigs are baaaad, "special" cookies are gooooooood :tup:

I live nearish brixton, where people get shot and stuff, but meh, in clapham it's mainly chavs with parents that wouldn't commit violent crimes, because it would alert the authorities to the fact that they are commiting benefit fraud already.

The chavs try and start fights, but most of the time you simply laugh in their face...but then you get the odd few that think they are gangsters and will then try to stab you...

even though everyone knows you are only a proper gangster if you have respect for people, even your enemies, ESPECIALLY your enemies. Crime is a business, you don't just commit petty theft for the hell of it, protection, laundering and the like are the way to truely function as a beneficial cell of the community :rolleyesa :tup:

[bigwig40]

w00t, stoners!
lol

drugs are wrong kids, but alcohol is good, cigs are baaaad, "special" cookies are gooooooood :tup:

I live nearish brixton, where people get shot and stuff, but meh, in clapham it's mainly chavs with parents that wouldn't commit violent crimes, because it would alert the authorities to the fact that they are commiting benefit fraud already.

The chavs try and start fights, but most of the time you simply laugh in their face...but then you get the odd few that think they are gangsters and will then try to stab you...

even though everyone knows you are only a proper gangster if you have respect for people, even your enemies, ESPECIALLY your enemies. Crime is a business, you don't just commit petty theft for the hell of it, protection, laundering and the like are the way to truely function as a beneficial cell of the community :rolleyesa :tup:
dse any1 here live in newcastle

[ssj5gogeta]

I've only seen a stabbing once and I must say I felt sick. I was with my 11 Year old brother at the time as well so it felt even worse.

I've seen people getting beaten up but it doesn't happen around where I live very often fortunately :)

[Tommy Gun]

never seen a stabbing, but i did see a guy trip down some stairs and break his neck - dead.

made me paranoid about walking down stairs for months...not good.

hang on, i just realised, what the hell is everyone still doing awake?! it's almost 2?! get some sleep!

[ssj5gogeta]

Sleep. What's that :lolblue:

It's Friday Tommy :tonguegre

[bigwig40]

Sleep. What's that :lolblue:

It's Friday Tommy :tonguegre
u kno u just realised that ur up 2 tommy

[ssj5gogeta]

I get to stay up pretty late most Fridays, and one weekend in three I can stay up late all weekend :biggringr

[bigwig40]

I get to stay up pretty late most Fridays, and one weekend in three I can stay up late all weekend :biggringr
same here m8

[ssj5gogeta]

The Holidays are the best. Late every night :coolred:

[bigwig40]

The Holidays are the best. Late every night :coolred:
yeah they r anyways my bf on msn who i met the other day is gonna log on but he needs 2 use my comp so i might not b on as much

[SupremeSpirit_uk]

Well, I have never witnessed a killing but down the road from me, yesterday, there was a bank raid. Again. It's pretty weird. Anyway, I've witnessed nackers (chavs) beating each other up in the city centre on my way down to the bus stop.

[Tommy Gun]

you may be allowed to stay up, doesn't mean you have to.

wouldn't you rather get some sleep and be awake the next day nice and early?

[Fearless]

you may be allowed to stay up, doesn't mean you have to.

wouldn't you rather get some sleep and be awake the next day nice and early?

i have no choice, i have a paper round

[ssj5gogeta]

you may be allowed to stay up, doesn't mean you have to.

wouldn't you rather get some sleep and be awake the next day nice and early?

:lolblue: That's the problem you see, no matter how late I go to bed I always get up at the same time. And that's aroung 12.00 noon. I try but I can never get out of bed at the weekend before then :lolblue:

Therefore if I fail to stay up then it just means I have less time to do what I want at the weekend

[cranium]

w00t, stoners!
lol

"special" cookies are gooooooood :tup:

I

yes they are. :D

I live in Grimsby, a small town on the east coast (near hull). In the past 5 years it has really declined. It was never great in the first place but when i came back from university it was full of these "chavs", stabbings, rape, drunken brawls. I avoid a particular part of town if I go out for some drinks with friends, it's just not safe.

If you look a little different, have different clothes or have different hair than them it is an excuse to glass you in the face and beat you up.

England has gone to the dogs !!!
I want to leave the country, who's with me?

[bazzaredodge]

not if you want to buy a game from your 'local' games store

Game stores? Pah, a thing of the past...

Buy your games online :tup: Cheap Cheap Cheap!

[tenebra_uk]

I want to leave the country, who's with me?
Not me. :biggringr
I want to leave London, but not England.

No point in discussing crime in London. Personally I've only been mugged once, never been in a fight, stopped a couple without being punched in the face, never seen too much violence. Lots of lunatics, yes. If you ask me if I feel comfortable walking around alone, well, no.

It's shocking how it's not even a matter of being careful at night, daytime crime is just as bad. Some guy was beheaded in the middle of a street not far from where I live at 9.30am a few months ago.

[ssj5gogeta]

Game stores? Pah, a thing of the past...

Buy your games online :tup: Cheap Cheap Cheap!

Cheap perhaps, but I can never deal with the wait, which in my case always seems to be ages. I'm just too Damn impatient:madred: :lolblue:

Then again I always have been since I had to wait 3 and a half weeks for Amazon to deliver my bopy of Burnout 3.

[bazzaredodge]

Dont go to amazon... Play.com! 3-5 days till it reaches your doorstep!

Its amazing how that story of the beheaded man never got on the news tenebra...

[tenebra_uk]

Its amazing how that story of the beheaded man never got on the news tenebra...
It was pretty shocking.

Article from The Evening Standard
14 March 2005
A man was beheaded in a frenzied and prolonged axe attack in a London street today.

The axeman, smartly-dressed and in his thirties, felled his victim with one blow and then struck repeatedly "as if he was chopping wood".

The assault lasted several minutes near the Hampstead Theatre in Belsize Park. The attacker ignored his victim's screams and the pleas of two women passers-by and workmen. He stopped when police arrived. He then put down the axe near the body. He was described as looking "emotionless and cool" throughout.

When asked why he had done it, he told officers: "It's complicated. It's private."

Mothers on the morning school run were among those who saw the killing in Eton Avenue.

Police said the victim was in his sixties and is thought to have lived nearby.

Officers do not think it was a random attack and understand that the men knew each other.

A neighbour said there had been a series of domestic rows at a nearby address.

A scaffolder working nearby saw a man carrying an axe in one hand above his head as he ran towards his victim. The men were seen to exchange a few words.

Seconds later the axeman struck the first of a series of heavy blows which continued when the victim lay slumped on the pavement in a pool of blood.

The workman said: "It was unremitting. The man with the axe ran at his victim and just laid into him.

"He brought it down on his head and floored him. The victim had tried to defend himself with his arms and I heard him shout something. But it was hopeless.

"Within seconds he was on the floor and his head had been split open. There was blood pouring from his head and spilling onto the pavement. It was horrific."

Avelina Rodrigues, 48, said the attacker ignored her pleas to stop as he brought blow after blow down upon his victim, leaving the body badly mutilated.

She said: "I heard the first thuds of the axe as it hit the man's head. I thought it was the sound of a child being hit by a car.

"I ran to the front of the house and could see a man, smartly dressed, tall and thin, with the axe in his hand.

"The axeman saw me but he just ignored me. He hacked his victim's head, cutting it as if it was a block of wood for a fire. His victim was unconscious on the ground, but he kept bringing his axe down on him.

"I begged him to stop and he just looked at me without emotion. There was no anger in his face, he did not seem crazy. He was just coolly finishing off his victim. He wanted to destroy him. ."

Another woman passing in a car stopped and pleaded with the man to stop his attack. He also ignored pleas from builders working nearby. Police arrested a man at the scene and he is being held for questioning at Holborn police station.

Eton Avenue is known as one the most exclusive streets in north London with a host of multi-million-pound properties. Belsize Park is also the home to a host of celebrities, including Jude Law, his estranged wife, Sadie Frost, Gwyneth Paltrow and her rock star husband, Chris Martin.

[ssj5gogeta]

:eek:

I'm juts glad I've never seen something that horrific.

Did you actually witness it, or did it happen near you.

Oh and Bazzare I'll try Play.com thanks :tup: :coolred:

[tenebra_uk]

Thankfully I wasn't anywhere near that area when it happened. I like my horror films but just because they're fake. Me and violence don't get on very well :lightbulb

[ssj5gogeta]

Well that does sound very odd, i can't imagine someone killing and then seeming so calm about it :confused:

Not as in it sounds phony, just plain weird

[Warspite]

I got shelled once, and them someone shot my Land Rover, which made me REALLY cross :madred:

[ssj5gogeta]

I got shelled once, and them someone shot my Land Rover, which made me REALLY cross :madred:

Yes but you're a machine, why would you need a car :D

[bazzaredodge]

There must of been a story between the two men

Sounds like something you would see in a film EG: American Physco

[tenebra_uk]

The more I see and hear, the more I think that life is more surreal than fantasy :lightbulb

I wish you all a quiet life :lightbulb

[bigwig40]

The more I see and hear, the more I think that life is more surreal than fantasy :lightbulb

I wish you all a quiet life :lightbulb
tenny that 2pot jr is spamming yet again i told him if he did have any respect 4 u mods he wudnt of dun it but looks like hes lying yet again

[ssj5gogeta]

Give him a break guys, he just has a lot of respect fro the Mods.

[Fearless]

its really scary when you see these things on the news and its just round the corner from where you live, frightening times

[bigwig40]

Give him a break guys, he just has a lot of respect fro the Mods.
lot of respect my pocket if he did he wudnt still b spamming like wat tenny told him 2 do

Oi, no swearing. You report something who's spamming by swearing?. Ten :weirdblue

[SupremeSpirit_uk]

That beheaded story is really sick. :frownblue

I feel so sorry for the guy who was killed. :frownblue

[bazzaredodge]

You never know...

The man that was killed, could have a been a terrorist, and was planning to blow up the whole east end of London with a Nuclear Bomb!!! :lightbulb

or just said something nasty about the other guys mother..

[driv3r rulezzz]

only east london with a nuke? is london that big? :confused: :weirdblue

[bazzaredodge]

Only the east of it...

Because i hate Eastenders! :devil:

[cranium]

yeah it's massive.

[Tommy Gun]

second that, london is huge.
population in netherlands is about 16.3million
london has a population of about 7.2million :rolleyesa

I got shelled once, and them someone shot my Land Rover, which made me REALLY cross :madred:
thats what you get for helping other people.
a teacher's mate was doing some work out in bosnia, car hit a landmine, luckily only lost his foot but car set on fire and face is seriously disfigured.

[Fearless]

second that, london is huge.
population in netherlands is about 16.3million
london has a population of about 7.2million :rolleyesa


thats what you get for helping other people.
a teacher's mate was doing some work out in bosnia, car hit a landmine, luckily only lost his foot but car set on fire and face is seriously disfigured.

unlucky teacher's mate

[Warspite]

Well it wasn't me - I thought we hit a mine once when we went over a bump and a fire extinguisher exploded in the truck cab. Oh how we laughed :weirdblue
It was dangerous though - I knew some fellas who rolled off Mt Milankovic on the way into Sarajevo.You have to drive it in the dark, with the fuses for your brake lights removed, and follow somone on foot.It was a bad night, and they completely missed a turn :frownblue

BUT - I for one felt safer in the streets there than I do in England; there was no danger of the kind of senseless ,pointless violence that now seems to be part of everyday life here :(