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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crime 1950's styleBack in the day my granddad used to be a biker. His pride and joy a new Triumph was stolen. Given that petrol was rationed at the time the thieves were restricted to driving it around the local area, as as such were caught within a week.
At the trial, bike thief was given a 18month suspended sentence. when the case before , a single mother who stole a bottle of milk off a doorstep got a year inside.
My granddad, pleased to get his bike back, always noted that not much justice was going on that day.
He didn't stay to find out the outcome of the next case: an 11 year old who murdered his parents with a hammer.
If you take the time to listen to the older generation you learn to take assertions that "were all going to dogs, the youth of today, etc" with a pinch of salt.
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willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 10:21,
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*click*I read a book recently on this matter because I used to wok with the author. He'd dug around in the old magistrate records somewhere covering most of the 1800's and the crimes recorded were pretty horrific by todays standards.
It's all perception really. We just KNOW about more things happening now. The much quoted 'fear of crime' statistics speak volumes.
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^Quite^Crime has been falling for the last decade or so - though fear of crime has been rising.
And the crime rate went through the roof between the late forties and fifties... y'know, the time the Daily Mail wants to reinvent...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 11:21,
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Yes, but...At least in the forties people weren't pirating music! "Stealing" music and not exchanging money somehow funds international terrorism and islamism, don't you know?!
The country IS going to the dogs, though; back then your granddad wouldn't have had to fear lawsuits for giving the theif a hiding upon finding him.
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 16:55,
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Murder"So why did you kill your parents with a hammer?"
"So I could go to the orphan's party. They've got cake."
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 0:13,
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