Posted on 07/10/2008 4:48:56 AM PDT by marktwain
A pensioner who used a piece of wood to chase away a gang of teenagers who had been throwing stones at his home is facing a jail term after being arrested and charged with possessing an offensive weapon. Sydney Davis, 65, a father-of-two, dialled 999 when his home in the Pinehurst area of Swindon, Wilts, came under attack. But when police failed to turn up over the next two hours he decided to take action himself. He grabbed a section of wood from a broken-up sofa lying in his front garden and chased the youths down the street - just as police officers finally arrived. Mr Davis, a retired builder, was astonished when police arrested him while allowing the gang to run to safety. The householder now faces a court appearance and a potential prison term of six months if convicted. Mr Davis, whose windows have been smashed five times in the last eight months, branded the law "a colossal ass". He went on: "This is Britain gone mad. Just what in the world is this country coming to when the police arrest people like me for protecting their own property? "The police say they want to reduce crime, yet they let evil little toe-rags like this off. Then they prosecute hard-working, upstanding residents like me. "There is simply no way we can shake off this problem of 'Yob Britain' if the legal system fails to protect the everyday person". Mr Davis' difficulties began on July 2 when a gang started throwing stones, stick, mud and eggs at a number of homes.
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Me thinks I’d smuggle a gun into jolly ole England, if I were to live there.
No need to call police.
No need to hang around after “resolving” these encounters.
They should ban the baseball bat immediately!
Here’s another thread with someone in Britain being arrested because they were the victim of a crime.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041756/posts
“...used a piece of wood...”
I’ll probably just post the links on my profile page. I don’t know what happened with Britain. I’ve got extended family over there. My mom’s from there. I went twice as a little kid and thorougly enjoyed it—that was in the 70’s though. It’s definitely not the Britain my mom grew up in during the 30’s through the 50’s. I know they had the war going on during some of those years, but the country on the whole seems to completely have lost its mind.
“Births outside marriage increased year by year since the early 1970s. Over the past 10 years the proportion has risen from 12% to 41% across England and Wales as a whole.
It passed 50% in north-east England in 2000 and last year stood at 53.5%. The north-west was not far behind on 48%, but in London - where a higher proportion of young mothers were from the Muslim community - only 34.5% of children were born outside marriage.”
Much less than 20 years. 10 years at the most.
And, a demonstration of gun control taken to the extreme. First the firearms, then the swords and knives. Ultimately, simple, utilitarian clubs become ‘offensive weapons’. Simply ridiculous, IMO.
The UK has fallen over the edge and into the PC, Multi-Culti crevasse, sadly. A once proud nation; reduced to an anachronism, sadly funny in its continued pomposity, and destined to historical obscurity if it continues on the present course.
More unfortunately, the US is on the same path, in my view.
After reading a story like this, I don't know how anyone can oppose sensible, common-sense piece-of-wood registration...
This is what happens when you let hard core socialists run your country for a number of years.
Probably not. The article uses the term "Yob" which generally describes drunken, white teenagers and young men who commit crime and violence for sport. Think "A Clockwork Orange." White "Yobs" or "Chavs" are known as the "ASBO Generation" and figure in much of Britain's violent crime in the last 10 or 15 years.
Or how about common sense, broken-up sofa lying in his front garden registration.
Form follows function....
I knew this was the UK as soon as I read the title.
And were the teenagers arrested for throwing “offensive weapons” at his house?
This is noxious. You can’t defend your own house with a piece of wood?
Why would anyone choose to live in Britain?
Crickett bat?
Not in Texas. Here you can step out on your front porch with a shotgun and solve the problem permanently.
Britain needs a revolution. BADLY.
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