I witnessed a crimeFreddy Woo writes, "A group of us once staggered home so insensible with drink that we failed to notice someone being killed and buried in a shallow grave not more than 50 yards away. A crime unsolved to this day."
Have you witnessed a crime and done bugger all about it? Or are you a have-a-go hero?
Whatever. Tell us about it...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:53)
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No, it's just youCrime 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...]
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