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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Coffee ShopA couple of months ago me my son and his girlfriend were sitting in my local coffee shop. They were across on a weeks Holiday, and enjoying some nice weed which would be a crime back in the UK, but that’s the UK for you.
This coffee shop is small, very small and dark, about 20 patrons and it’s full. I like it, as unlike some coffee shops people talk to each other, the music is good the staff are friendly.
This rather large Dutch guy was standing next to our table with his mate, when the door bursts open and in comes another very large Dutch guy who went straight up to the guy next to us and hits him right in the cob. Well the place explodes. The two guys lay into the new comer, real wild west stuff. All in area you can’t swing a cat in. Of course the staff were none too happy and got stuck in as well. So we just sit there and eventually it all spills out on to the street leaving the three of us sitting there in an empty shop.
We finish our drinks and wander out to find the fight had broken up, leaving one guy stabbed in the arm and one guy unconscious on the ground. I had gotten to know the stabbed chap so went and had a look, it wasn’t to bad so we left before the Police arrived.
The outcome, the shop was closed for a couple of days.
This one I didn’t see luckily, two weeks ago in another coffee shop in a different city. The original story was a guy let off a hand grenade injuring a few people and killed him self in the process. That wasn’t what happened though, the guy took the grenade to the shop was playing with it when it went off, one of the injured by standers was a bit annoyed so he shot the guy dead.
(, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 15:11, 1 reply)
RecommendationI'm having a couple of days in Amsterdam with my brother (his first time) soon. As a (presumed) regular. Have you any recommendations of a good coffeeshop that isn't too tourist-y but preferably without regular stabbing/shooting/grenade incidents?
(We're staying pretty close to the Centraal station)
(, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 15:41, closed)
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