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Man with learning difficulties bullied for TEN years collapses after confronting yobs in his garden
Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 6:06 PM on 11th March 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 03/11/2010 12:40:54 PM PST by Niuhuru

A man with learning difficulties was 'tormented to death' after being bullied by yobs for more than a decade, neighbours claimed today. David Askew, 64, dropped dead after he tackled thugs who broke down his gate and invaded his garden. Neighbours said Mr Askew had been targeted before he was found dead at his home in Hattersley, Greater Manchester, last night. One neighbour said he had been 'tormented to death - like bear baiting'. Residents criticised police and officials for not supporting Mr Askew and his brother Brian and mother Rose, who was wheelchair-bound. Officers were called to the address last night after being told yobs were causing an 'annoyance'. When they arrived the youths had vanished but officers discovered Mr Askew collapsed in his back garden.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bully; bullying; learningdisabilities; oldman; pigs; thugs; yobs
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To: naturalized

Go deliver your sermon to someone who is interested.

Obviously, you have no idea what I think or believe, but you are more than willing to make some assumptions so that you have an excuse for going off on an angry rant.

I’m bored of this already.


41 posted on 03/11/2010 1:52:23 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: envisio
BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?

I may have gotten the exact spelling wrong...but it's French for "What is it?"

Kind of a joke, ya see.

42 posted on 03/11/2010 1:54:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: autumnraine
“Yobs” is a British term for good for nothing punk hoodlums

So instead of POTUS, it should be YOTUS?

43 posted on 03/11/2010 1:58:41 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Niuhuru

Unmentioned in the article is that local authorities have charged the deceased with obstruction of criminal activity. Next week, a civil ceremony honoring the yobs with a Diversity in Life Award will be scheduled.


44 posted on 03/11/2010 2:07:34 PM PST by DesertConservative
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To: envisio
"BTW.. What in samhell does Q’est qe c’est mean?"

An easy way to decipher any word or phrase you don't understand is to simply cut and paste it into Google. Works like a charm.

quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur

45 posted on 03/11/2010 2:15:03 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Niuhuru
It's too bad the outcome couldn't have ended like this.


46 posted on 03/11/2010 2:15:07 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Our politicians are stupid and our policies unsustainable)
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To: envisio
"An easy way to decipher any word or phrase you don't understand is to simply cut and paste it into Google. Works like a charm."

Even better...

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes

LOL!

47 posted on 03/11/2010 2:21:34 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

Braccae tuae aperiuntur

(I like that site!)


48 posted on 03/11/2010 2:24:49 PM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: envisio
"(”yob” is british for hooblum or delinquent)"

Hooblum?

YOUblum.

He blum too!


49 posted on 03/11/2010 2:31:40 PM PST by shibumi ("..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: Niuhuru

“This sort of thing is enough to make anyone question as to whether or not God really does exist.

Ludicrous, utterly ludicrous. At best one might start to wonder where the decency of his neighbors was for all of that time.


50 posted on 03/11/2010 2:35:37 PM PST by TalBlack
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To: 70times7

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo equus.


51 posted on 03/11/2010 2:43:20 PM PST by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Niuhuru

England has switched from Christianity to agnosticism and Islam.


52 posted on 03/11/2010 2:52:00 PM PST by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: GourmetDan

You are “ignosce-d”. Take a sugar cube and a carrot. ;>)


53 posted on 03/14/2010 4:05:53 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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