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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Armed RobberyHailing from Cracktown UK (Ilkeston) and having lived the charming St Anns district of Nottingham I have seen plenty of crimes and been witness to a fair few burglaries, assaults drug deals the like.
A friend, who used to live at the bottom of St Anns regularly had junkies and prostitutes hanging around the jitty (pathway for you non-Midlanders) at the back of his house. To which his solution was to have a) 3 buckets of water to soak the junkies, and b) a catapult to fire handful upon handful of dried peas from the upstairs window to deter any further wannabe skagsters from doing their injecting up his alley so to speak.
Scariest times (in retrospect) for me, having had a knife pulled on me a full 3 times in my life have been missing a bank robbery by 2 minutes in Ilkeston and being within seconds of walking in on a shooting at the local Londis in the aforementioned St Anns.
Also seen cars being vandalised, kids peddling drugs, prostitution galore and a lad breaking into an art gallery even with me shouting out the window that I had called the police (from the safety of my 2nd floor gated flat)
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Sounds like Nottingham.Also, you get a click for the use of 'jitty' - a vastly underused Midlands word!
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Maladicta, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 14:20,
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