About 10 years ago, I was in Spain and met a British tourist headed to a museum in the same somewhat out of the way place. We couldn’t find the museum, although we were pretty sure we were in the right neighborhood. Unfortunately, all the shops were closed because it was the siesta.
Finally, I saw some boys, about 12 yrs old, kicking a ball around at the end of the street, and I told my British friend that I was going to go ask them. She looked at me in horror and said that I was very brave and she wasn’t going to go with me. I had no idea what she meant.
She stood at the end of the street, I asked them for directions (I speak Spanish), they told me, and I went back to tell this to my British friend. She told me that in England, you would never go up to a group of kids playing on the street because they would turn on you and beat you to death just for the fun of it. And then she told me about a friend of hers who had been beaten into a coma for asking directions from some neighborhood children.
England has a problem with its Muslims, but I think it also has a problem with its own native born and bred population. Thank you, big government and socialism.
“Life at the Bottom” by Theodore Dalrymple and his occasional editorials speak of how bad it is in England.
A very telling story... England also has one of the strictest gun controls in the world... how ironic...
When I lived there...
kids used to break into our garage and steal our car. They would come from Redcar to our town, drink in the pubs and steal our car for a ride home. It got to a point where I just left it open so I did not have to pay for anymore windows or locks and we stopped replacing the starter thingy, I used to start my own car with a screwdriver. yes, that is true.
We found the car in the same place every time. We didn’t even bother reporting it after a while bcuz the police (who are as nice as can be, btw) could do nothing for us.
On one occasion, I stayed up and watched and when I saw them, called the cops who arrived within minutes & caught them red handed. They were juveniles so the cops had to let them go. No charges, no arresting, no nothing. And we were not allowed to ask their names or their parents name. not allowed to give info since they were minors.
the cops told us that i should drop my idea of getting a dog bcuz if i got caught letting the dog out to purposely hurt a child, i could ‘get done’. same if i waited and beat the crap out of them. In the end, we build a 10 foot brick wall around our property with a huge wooden gate.
When I went back, many of my old friends told me that the kids were out of control and they feared them, since no punishment comes to them.
Yeah, it’s been downhill ever since the “glory days” of Sid Viscious & Johnny Rotten. (puke)