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If you live in a town or city what's it like, we are seeing an upsurge in it mainly i think drug-related,we have at least one case ever day and i wonder if its due to the lack of opportunity the addicts have to fund the habit, shop lifting cant be as easy with the shopping restrictions.
 
In my rural town, not so much violence but scenes like this in local parks and kids play areas, which happen overnight
most nights
Plus fires in woods on the outskirts with all the similar junk left and smashed glass in kids play areas


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No violence as such, there’s been a surge in the kids sniffing nitrous oxide though. You can always loads of those little silver canisters around the streets.
 
in my yoof - all the Council Parks had a resident Warden during open hours .....no such problems. A disgrace :mad:
 
Two female junkie/wino beggars got into a row in the High St yesterday and were filmed pulling hair, scrathing and kicking, accompanied by much screaming, apparently over who should be on which side of the street, pickings will be slim due to low footfall.
There were 3 within 50m on Monday morning in the same area, one asked me if I could help her-she was sitting with a 3l wine box and smoking-I suggested she give me the wine and her fags and I'd help her health,she was not amused.
 
I often wonder if it's just a case of these things being reported more and we're hearing about them.

But yeah, reading the local news website, most days there's some sort of incident and it's drug related. I think where I am, in Swindon, county lines drug gangs are mostly cited in these incidents.
 
We live in a nice area in Glasgow but we are surrounded by poorer areas. We see the odd person stumbling through a bit drunk and loud. Harmless enough and no noticeable trouble, stabbings, riots, attacks on police etc. A few boy racers cut about.

EDIT: Warmer weather and holidays do seem to make a difference.
 
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benc98 said:
I often wonder if it's just a case of these things being reported more and we're hearing about them.
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I think theres a lot less violance on the streets now than in the 70s 80s .. its just that we see it more now with the internet....
 
up here in Wales we have simply stopped the English from visiting ,cured it :banana::banana::banana::banana:
 
KIPAX said:
I think theres a lot less violance on the streets now than in the 70s 80s .. its just that we see it more now with the internet....
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I remember as a teen coming home from a girlfriends one night and seeing a couple of the Krays enforcers knee capping someone , they just shouted across the road " you aint seen f*** all o.k" nope I certainly didn't
 
boogie man said:
You can always loads of those little silver canisters around the streets.
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One place I visit during the course of work, on a quiet industrial estate,I often see loads of those scattered about, in the bushes, I wondered what they were.
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Gremlin said:
but scenes like this in local parks and kids play areas, which happen overnight
most nights
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Yep that's pretty much the same here, in our parks and play area's :( dirty bastids!
 
Cobra said:
One place I visit during the course of work, on a quiet industrial estate,I often see loads of those scattered about, in the bushes, I wondered what they were.
Every day's a school day ...!
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It took me a while to figure out what they were too. I did wonder if Sparklets soda syphons had made a come back. :D
 
boogie man said:
It took me a while to figure out what they were too. I did wonder if Sparklets soda syphons had made a come back. :D
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Honestly? so did I :D
 
I live about 10 minutes walk from Fir Vale in Sheffield. Its a no go area at night down there now, riots and gang fights every night.
 
A couple of the local tom cats had a go at each other the other night, does that count?

Our post code does have a high instance of "violence and sexual offences", but nearly all relate to the local hospital or the unit that looks after "sectioned" mental health patients.

It does annoy me that they group violence and sexual offences together.
 
a lot of police driving about nothing much has happen since the start of lockdown since a young lad was killed, but then again the pubs are open again on the 4th
 
Mass brawls tonight at Ogmore, a small beach town in South Wales, probably too much sun and Stella.
 
i'm in rural yorkshire
everyone here smokes drugs
all the young people mess about and smoke drugs
not much has changed
they generally mess about and smoke drugs in summer
 
soeren said:
Since I stopped reading the news we have had zero crime in my town
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Sometimes i think this is the best way to deal with life today ;) many years ago we had a 10 day wild camping holiday in Scotland, on our return we found a small war in the middle east had started and finished without us knowing.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-ogmore-kids-fighting-lockdown-18490567
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A chap who went to Ogmore this morning to help with the clear up has said how bad a state the place was left in, "beer cans, gas bottles, plastic bags and worst of all human excrement" , what is wrong with people? if you really want to s*** in a field, go do it in your own garden or better still don't go to a public beach in the first place and stay close to your own throne.
 
admirable said:
Bring back the birch!
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FFS! and yes I'm with you on that.

Years ago, I used to holiday now and again on the IoM, ( mostly for the diving) and at the time birching was actually a legal form of punishment.
After a few years break, I returned after it had been abolished.
I was saddened by the change in the island, Litter, graffiti ( and not just the artistic type) and it also appeared a lot more rowdy at times. too
 
We have every type of anti social behaviour in my town just north of Manchester. Last year I was beaten up and had my car written off by a gang of bickers who ride round causing chaos (graphic pictures to prove it). Fly tipping is rife, travelling community problems, you name it we have it.
 
admirable said:
I read this earlier tonight, this is about a twenty minute drive from me;

Bring back the birch!
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Forget birch, hang the f*cker.
Didn’t realise that was in Glenrothes ☹️. Guess I’m lucky to live as they would say is the posh part of Fife.

We don’t get much off anything here so are very lucky in that regard, there was a load of breakin’s just before/ as lock down stared but they caught the guys.
 
Sounds like we are relatively lucky here then. Plenty of little gas canisters in certain places, rubbish everywhere when there's been a picnic in the parks, general littering occurring mostly on the way home from work or pub, occasional motorbiking around the parks to show off, loads of open drug dealing and pot smoking, no police presence at all except the occasional drive through with sirens blazing. But not much apparent violence unless you're a youngster, from what I can make out. Large number of cars with duff headlights and exhausts, so probably no Mot, tax and insurance. No police stopping them.
I have considered becoming a Special, seeing as the fitness test is minimal, but I don't plan to stay here much longer.
 
We've had a few instances of violence and/or incidents of a sexual nature but it's been few and far between. We also have the occasional mass fight outside a couple of local pubs and people have been seen having sex in public etc. In short, stuff that can happen anywhere in the UK these days when drink and drugs are in the possession of idiots. I'm told drug use is endemic now but thankfully it seems to be passing us by. Car crime seems to have fallen off a bit, fingers crossed, or maybe it's just that the cars I have now aren't worth the attention of the vandalising scum.

The thing that affects me most is littering as people seem to be utter pigs these days and it is imo worse than years ago. One thing we like to do is walk to the shops along a disused rail track. It's lovely with brambles, wild raspberries and flowers or rather is should be lovely but it's absolutely covered in litter and dog poo. How people can litter and how they can excuse not picking up dog poo I just don't know.
 
The apparent rise in litter could be (to some extent at least) down to people's reluctance to pick up rubbish of unknown provenance when they used to pick it up with a "Tut"! Most of the litter around us here is KFC boxes tossed from cars when the pigs have scarfed the contents.
 
pmac said:
Forget birch, hang the f*cker.
Didn’t realise that was in Glenrothes ☹. Guess I’m lucky to live as they would say is the posh part of Fife.
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Aye just through a rope over a lamppost and let him swing.
We need to bring our passports if we visit from Dunfermline, daughter has a pass since she's a manager at The Old Course Hotel, won't let me visit though.:mad:
 
Drugs and drink-related incidents has always been a regular thing here at my Folkestone harbour district but I've noticed how the police seem to be getting better at catching them lately. Probably because due to drinkers and more especially dealers having a habit of hanging out in the same area wearing the same clothes while most people where indoors so they stick out like sore thumbs.

While I'm on about my coastal resort location and speaking as a teetotaler, I'm - and probably the emergency services are - dreading the reopening of bars and pubs this coming Saturday. Us Brits do not do moderate drinking and people are going to "flock" into these places and be drunk and boisterous by mid-afternoon. Still, at least night clubs - including the one just around the corner from my house - looks like staying closed for a while longer.

Going by how the first half of this year went by, it is one of the many reasons why I'm facing July with trepidation.

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I do wish the UK would do something about littering.
Back in the 1960's in Hong Kong, where I grew up, littering was dreadful and so in the early 1970's there was a campaign: the Lap Sap Cheung campaign, whereby anyone spotted dropping litter was a Lap Sap Cheung - No Good Worm - and could be fined on the spot HK$100 (about £5), a not inconsiderable sum to the poorer workers in those days. Within a couple of years it became as now, one of the cleanest places you can visit. Singapore did the same, but from an earlier date.
The trick is enforcement, having the litter wardens with powers, and these days with body cams to capture the offence, it could be done, if any local authority wanted to spend the money. But since we don't even have cops on the street to protect the wardens when a punter gets shirty, it can't happen.
 
Lindsay56 said:
But since we don't even have cops on the street to protect the wardens when a punter gets shirty, it can't happen.
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I know people that have been issued with a fixed penalty notice, one for dropping a fag end in a car park.
They waited until the person had left the car and stuck the notice on their windscreen.

Then there is the t***t that some years ago that stuck a "parking fine" on my windscreen. The area I was parked in was disputable in court,
and I was away from the van for no more than a minute, I guess he was hiding in the bushes, that I was about to bait for rats :D

Anyway I found him and had words ... he just stood there like a dummy...
And it turned out he was a dummy, on closer inspection, he was in such a rush to ticket me, he got the reg. wrong it was just one letter but obviously the firm never heard about, it when we ignored it. I did wonder if that reg actually existed and what happened (This was in the days before anyone could check a vehicle reg so I couldn't ) :lol:
 
chris954 said:
I live about 10 minutes walk from Fir Vale in Sheffield. Its a no go area at night down there now, riots and gang fights every night.
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We're in Thorpe Hesley. Fir vale is like a different planet. 2miles down the road.
 
Lindsay56 said:
I do wish the UK would do something about littering.
Back in the 1960's in Hong Kong, where I grew up, littering was dreadful and so in the early 1970's there was a campaign: the Lap Sap Cheung campaign, whereby anyone spotted dropping litter was a Lap Sap Cheung - No Good Worm - and could be fined on the spot HK$100 (about £5), a not inconsiderable sum to the poorer workers in those days. Within a couple of years it became as now, one of the cleanest places you can visit. Singapore did the same, but from an earlier date.
The trick is enforcement, having the litter wardens with powers, and these days with body cams to capture the offence, it could be done, if any local authority wanted to spend the money. But since we don't even have cops on the street to protect the wardens when a punter gets shirty, it can't happen.
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No, sadly in the UK a lot of people have no shame and just don't care. Litter wardens would be spat at and verbally and physically assaulted so would need to be accompanied by at least one cop. Then there's collecting the fines and I gather only law abiding citizens pay fines so although it sounds nice it'd need an unprecedented effort from our legal system to make it work. As I said in another thread, my view of both the British ruling class and public has nosedived in recent years.

I've never been to HK but Singapore impressed me no end. What a backwater toilet of a place the UK seems in comparison.
 
Lindsay56 said:
I do wish the UK would do something about littering.
Back in the 1960's in Hong Kong, where I grew up, littering was dreadful and so in the early 1970's there was a campaign: the Lap Sap Cheung campaign, whereby anyone spotted dropping litter was a Lap Sap Cheung - No Good Worm - and could be fined on the spot HK$100 (about £5), a not inconsiderable sum to the poorer workers in those days. Within a couple of years it became as now, one of the cleanest places you can visit. Singapore did the same, but from an earlier date.
The trick is enforcement, having the litter wardens with powers, and these days with body cams to capture the offence, it could be done, if any local authority wanted to spend the money. But since we don't even have cops on the street to protect the wardens when a punter gets shirty, it can't happen.
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I remember Lap Sap Cheung from the 70s too.

Then there was Chan Fat. He committed every crime in the HK law books, if the RHKP training school books were to be believed...because his name was used in all the examples! They were good days.
 
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