ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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It's not just a cultural stereotypeAt the V festival several years ago we were unfortunate enough to be camped next to a load of scallies. They would help their mates to climb over the fence, there must have been about 10 of them sharing a 3 man tent.
They would walk casually through the campsite carrying stereos and boxes of beer. It came to head when they pissed someone off and he tore through our campsite in pursuit of a scally. The guy doing the chasing ended up having his head split open.
The police were called and arrived at dawn. They flushed the scallies out of their tent and spent a while rounding them all up (was worth being up at 6am to see!) They started bringing all this shit out of the tent, including, memorably, a plastic table and chairs!
When they were finished the sergeant came and sat with us. I'll never forget what he said:
"Bloody scousers. If I had my way, I'd take a flamethrower to the whole of Liverpool."
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