Is it me?
Or do you just have to look at the England section of the BBC News website to see the kind of fucked up society we live in today...

Current stories include a woman being raped in the middle of the road while cars drove past and ignored her;

A car being stolen with a baby in the back seat;

Some bloke being hospitalised for yelling at a bunch of chavs pissing against his car;

A body being found inside a suitcase;

and a girl filming some bloke being happy slapped who then died...

I have a feeling that if the QOTW was renamed "What crime have you NOT witnessed", the number of posts would be minimal or non-existant...
(Nuclear Ninja like a radioactive Chuck Norris..., Thu 14 Feb 2008, 13:52, 2 replies)

No, it's just you
Crime rates haven't actually changed much in 20 years - it's just that 20 years ago all you got was 25 minutes of national news and 5 minutes of local.

Now, you get a story on BBC News Online when the crime happens, one when the suspect gets caught, one at the committal hearing, one at the trial (several, for weeks, if it's a big trial), and one at the sentencing. And you get that across the country, even for crimes that would only ever have been on Midlands Today or World of Wales in the pre-Internet days.

[it's especially noticeable for Teh Peados - the number of children kidnapped by strangers has fallen since the 1960s, but these days whenever it does happen the missing kid is all over the papers for half a year, so parents get scared and refuse to let their kids outside the house. So they weight 20 stone and die of heart attacks instead...]
(stalinism, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 15:59, closed)

I've never seen a crime
And I once went on holiday with my house unlocked for 10 days. Nothing was gone.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 16:28, closed)