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First my Good Lady Wife is a victim of a violent attack just before Christmas.
A young kid is then stabbed to death. Both of these things happened within two minutes from our front door.
And now I've just heard from my Good Lady Wife that an intruder guessed the combination on the keypad to her office at work. When the guy was challenged, he started attacking one of her colleagues who now has nasty bruises over his throat. Lots of police at her work sorting it all out.
What the fuck is happening to this place? I never remember having this kind of hassle in all the time we've lived here until recently. :( :confused:
Dubversion
25-04-2007, 10:10
not trying to play it down, but i think it's mostly just a bad run of shitty luck in some ways. I guess the area one lives in plays a part, but people go years and years in London with nothing like that happening to them
doesn't make it any less horrible, admittedly
I don't know what's happening, I witnessed a fair bit of violence, on different occasions, years ago, now I only hear lots of stories but never actually see anything - so I feel safer now than I used to. Strange that, everyone else seems to feel the other way around... :(
thought this was going to be an optimistic thread:( that's awful ld, not sure if these things are happening more, i worked in an office in hackney a few years ago when a deranged woman attacked our office with an axe, luckily no one was hurt, the reception staff retreated behind a locked door, and we had to wait while she laid waste to the office, the police arrived, and she was exhaused, just sitting in one of the benches waiting to be taken away
thought this was going to be an optimistic thread:( that's awful ld, not sure if these things are happening more, i worked in an office in hackney a few years ago when a deranged woman attacked our office with an axe, luckily no one was hurt, the reception staff retreated behind a locked door, and we had to wait while she laid waste to the office, the police arrived, and she was exhaused, just sitting in one of the benches waiting to be taken away
sorry I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but it did just make me laugh :D
The recent spate of child stabbings hasn't exactly done good things for London's safe reputation either....
sorry I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but it did just make me laugh :D
....
it wasn't without humour, no one got hurt, the rest of the office was secure, we had a few reception staff who were upset at a mad woman jumping over the counter with an axe, she had been in earlier, not been happy with what was said, went out and bought an axe:(
i stood outside and watched as she laid waste to the reception area
paulhackett66
25-04-2007, 10:37
on the plus side, at least it wasn't a man cutting his cock off whilst you were trying to enjoy a light pasta meal
Yeah it could've been a helluva lot worse! I'm just thankful there wasn't a gang of intruders... there were only two colleagues in at the time.
The colleague who was attacked says he's fine although imo he looks pretty distressed & pale. :(
Ever so often it appears that the violence gets closer, the rate of randomn attacks gets higher, etc
2/3 years back there seemed to be a rash of unbalanced types pushing people in front of trains, whereas this year has been fairly quiet on that front.
Hope you aint too mentally bruised ngeru
bluestreak
25-04-2007, 13:46
it comes and goes. i dunno about the figures but i feel safer these days than i did a decade ago. i think that it's just that the scatter chart of randomness has made it look a bit nasty around you lot at the moment.
lunatrick
25-04-2007, 13:47
thats bad LD rudeboy - lets hope it just a run of bad luck that will now change.....I've never felt particularly threatened in London over the years or when I lived there...but the continual low level crime is what gets me....Car being broken into, litter, idiot kids on the bus.....junkies hassling me on my way to work in covent garden, randoms hanging around the front door or hassling shop owner across the road.......nothing too sinister just enough to slowly add up to a place I don't want to be anymore.....
Hope you aint too mentally bruised ngeru
Oh I'm fine... thanks for asking though! By the time I turned up the place was crawling with filth & the intruder was long gone. They've got him on CCTV so it may lead to an arrest yet.
onenameshelley
25-04-2007, 17:21
sorry I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, but it did just make me laugh :D
The recent spate of child stabbings hasn't exactly done good things for London's safe reputation either....
actually i laughed at that too, for some reason i imagined her in a mac as well?
Shit LDR hope your both ok, i think its one of those things, everything goes in cycles but it does seem bad at the moment, also when your mind/heart is elsewhere i think it can be harder to ignore the downsides that have always been there just not been noticed *i think that made sense*
also when your mind/heart is elsewhere i think it can be harder to ignore the downsides that have always been there just not been noticed *i think that made sense*
Oh it does Shells as that sums up exactly how I feel since I returned from my NZ/Oz trip in Feb. There are definitely positives but I'm becoming increasing impatient/down over the negative stuff. Even so, I'm determined to enjoy London while we're still here.
guinnessdrinker
26-04-2007, 15:22
thought this was going to be an optimistic thread:( that's awful ld, not sure if these things are happening more, i worked in an office in hackney a few years ago when a deranged woman attacked our office with an axe, luckily no one was hurt, the reception staff retreated behind a locked door, and we had to wait while she laid waste to the office, the police arrived, and she was exhaused, just sitting in one of the benches waiting to be taken away
about ten years ago, the Southwark News had a report about a man wrecking the interior surrounding ot the Rotherthithe jobcentre. can't say I blamed him at the time.
In fifteen years of living in London I've never been attacked. Last week I was in Harrogate - the poshest place in the North of England - and got kicked and punched in the face by a nutter.
So shit can happen anywhere, basically.
In fifteen years of living in London I've never been attacked. Last week I was in Harrogate - the poshest place in the North of England - and got kicked and punched in the face by a nutter.
So shit can happen anywhere, basically.
Ms T that's awful. :( :mad:
V sorry to read that... Hope you're recovering OK!
onenameshelley
27-04-2007, 17:51
Oh it does Shells as that sums up exactly how I feel since I returned from my NZ/Oz trip in Feb. There are definitely positives but I'm becoming increasing impatient/down over the negative stuff. Even so, I'm determined to enjoy London while we're still here.
Its always hard to be in a place that no longer feels quite like home.
gaijingirl
27-04-2007, 20:40
In fifteen years of living in London I've never been attacked. Last week I was in Harrogate - the poshest place in the North of England - and got kicked and punched in the face by a nutter.
So shit can happen anywhere, basically.
JESUS! WTF?!! Hope you're ok now....
London is a major global city of millions of people with, all things considered, a low murder rate.
Get over it.
:)
Oh it does Shells as that sums up exactly how I feel since I returned from my NZ/Oz trip in Feb. There are definitely positives but I'm becoming increasing impatient/down over the negative stuff. Even so, I'm determined to enjoy London while we're still here.
That's a good attitude. Glad you're ok.
William of Walworth
28-04-2007, 13:53
not trying to play it down, but i think it's mostly just a bad run of shitty luck in some ways. I guess the area one lives in plays a part, but people go years and years in London with nothing like that happening to them
doesn't make it any less horrible, admittedly
Absolutely. What's happened to ngeru sounds horrible :( and I really sympathise ...
But I live in a scarcely less rough area and have had no experiences of anything remotely similar to this for years ...
What the fuck is happening to this place?
I’m 50, and 34 years ago, I was attacked by a gang of 12 youths. I spent nearly two weeks in a coma; and, came out the other end a cripple. So Rudeboy, in answer to your crie de cour: nothing mate, she just keeps rollin’ along.
London has truly become I very screwed up place, around about when I first moved into my house (not too sure when, was about 10 years ago) a police officer was murdered two streets up.
A couple years ago a man was followed by a car, pulled out and two men kicked his head like a football until he sadly died and I've seen an argument happen were a car has pulled up and a man exited brandishing an axe.
More recently, only about a few months ago, three men broke into a house and were chased along the gardens behind my house were one hid in a bush two doors down from me.
I am proud to say I pointed the police in the right direction when I saw the bush rustling and saw the scum be carted off in the police van.
I haven't actually been victim too a serious crime, apart from a few harassments when out with mates but never actually been mugged and hope I never will be a victim of crime, but with the society we seem to live in, that sadly seems to get less and less likely...
Harry Roberts killed three policemen in London in 1966; I was attacked by a gang of 12 and my head used as a football in 1973 – but, I lived; around about 1976 a friend of mine was stabbed to death by a gang of West Ham supporters, they all walked free from court.
London’s no more screwed up than the next quite country lane some innocent fucker will meet their end; the small town centre, where as we speak drunken kids are kicking seven shades of shit from one and other.
That's a good attitude. Glad you're ok.
Cheers Maggot. :)
Absolutely. What's happened to ngeru sounds horrible :( and I really sympathise ...
But I live in a scarcely less rough area and have had no experiences of anything remotely similar to this for years ...
It's Ok William, I missed the intruder by a good 20 mins or so... unless you're referring to that mugging attack last year?
Btw on Thursday, I was right there when the Oxford Street fire started. I know fires can happen any where/any time but still... reckon the gods are trying to tell me something! :D I'm fine though... escaped unscathed but was a bit shaken afterwards. (Thread here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=5924879#post5924879 )
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