slightly different view
I started reading your story and it seemed very similar to mine.

i have lived in a few cities - Liverpool Manchester and Sheffield being some of them... Sheffield was by far the worst - i used to live in Norfolk Park =- just up from where you live... near Truo works i think. Any way in my year in Sheffield i saw - and i kid you not.

(Ahem)
1. I was robbed outside the McDonalds near where you live on the roundabout, at 1pm lunchtime, with a knife, by 3 guys.
2. My house was robbed ~2pm (Neighbours was on TV) and me being on my own in the house... loss of 3 laptops 2 mobile phones and a wallet.
3. Cars being robbed - there was a jail hostel next door - the ex cons were frequently caught trying to hot wire cars in the student car park.
4. 4 Stabbings including one outside the McDonalds in city centre - which followed what i can only describe as an all out brawl with chairs being flung, windows smashing,
5. Police chases through our halls campus chasing a man with an Axe with police dogs and helicopter in chase. This happened on 3 separate occasions...
6. Numerous break-ins - usually the hall flats that backed onto the footy field (Norfolk Park itself)
7. Shootings - mainly in the Brammal lane area
8. Rape
9. Male Rape (at the top of Granville
10. Numerous beatings / assaults.

Now, most of the above I didn’t personally witness (about 60-70%) but they did happen very close to where i lived (within half a mile) all within 9 months.... I have Never, NEVER seen anything as bad as that.....
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Wed 20 Feb 2008, 14:31, Reply)