Pensioner arrested for chasing away youths with piece of wood

The Telegraph ^ | July 8, 2008 | Nigel Bunyan

[reagan_fanatic]

Unbelievable. What the hell are the British thinking?

[aculeus]

The police say they want to reduce crime, yet they let evil little toe-rags like this off.

Toe-rags?

To remove toe jam?

Anyone?

[El Gato]

Not in Texas. Here you can step out on your front porch with a shotgun and solve the problem permanently

Yep, even if there is a cop sitting right out on the street watching the whole thing go down, and apparently munching on his donut.

[Old Mountain man]

They have truly lost their minds over there.

[chiefqc]

Aw give them a break, they were on a tea break.

[absalom01]

I didn’t realize that the English had their own Mountain Williamses....closer cultural ties than I had realized!

[mathluv]

Thanks for that info!

[Jack Hammer]

Agreed - FUBAR; completely FUBAR.

[supercat]

If citizens are allowed to arm themselves, there’s a limit as to how much of a free reign the politicians can grant their favored crooks. Even if everyone who raised a finger against the yobs was summarily executed, there would still be some citizens who would rather die knowing they took some of the crooks with them than surrender to totalitarian anarchy. That would pose an unacceptable deterrent for the yobs—thus the need to completely disarm the citizenry.