not-bono-ever
meh
I could have mapped out the ebb and flow rituals of this thread without having read anything other than the title.
Pensioner arrested on suspicion of murder after a suspected burglar was stabbed to death.
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ska invita
back on the other side
Hither Green is basically the main residential bit of Lewisham (town as opposed to borough). I nearly moved in to that area a couple of years back...really considered it, then on a third visit i saw little tatty bits of police tape on the next door lamp post....thought id ask someone what it was like around for crime..came up to a woman sitting in her car smoking a spliff - her advice, stay away, she'd move if she could, started motioning to dealers holed up in that house over there, nutters in that house there... in short its a stressful place to live with constant agro. This is where some young kids pulled a gun on a policeman the other day.
If you wake up with armed men in your house - especially in Hither Green - your instinct will be that you could be killed and who knows how any of us would react under that circumstance.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I dunno. I am not party to what goes on inside your head. Nor anyone else's for that matter. Sometimes, not even mine.
Anyway, I'm not really up for some pointless spat about the nuances of what someone-or-other might have meant, so let's leave it there, eh?
not-bono-ever
meh
its a funny one hither green. My mate was lamped and knocked out with a cosh late one night by a couple taking their dog for a walk. he clams he may have bumped into them i.e. he was fucking leathered and all over the place, but does seem a bit OTT to be carrying weaponry when you are out with your dog.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what's the point of posting on urban if you're not up for some pointless spat
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It makes it more of a challengewhat's the point of posting on urban if you're not up for some pointless spat
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
It makes it more of a challenge
So you were quick to tell me I was wrong but now you’re getting coy about explaining why?
Which I expected would happen hence my enquiry.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Could have been variations though, what if the burglars disturbed the bloke having a (very late) Full English Breakfast?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
You're just confusing yourself (and everyone else) now!
You're just confusing yourself (and everyone else) now!
Apparently this:
Says I was wrong. And he reached that conclusion by having ‘no interest’ in what you meant.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I think he's just lost interest in unpicking it all. We've kind of lost the moment.
Conveniently.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Probably. I haven't got a scooby what you're talking about either though, tbf
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Released on bail.
Strange to have not ‘unpicked it’ prior to announcing I was wrong. Cart before the horses there.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Aye. Poor coachmanship.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
In all seriousness, the whole thing is really horrible. The burglar's family have lost their son/partner/dad (delete as appropriate) and the pensioner will be so traumatised that he may not be able to carry on looking after his wife. Rights and wrongs aside, that's all pretty shitty.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
'Hello, is this the system? I'd like to report that there are two armed villains in my kitchen who represent an immediate threat of violence against myself and my vulnerable, elderly wife. Whilst I do not consider the villains to be acting in a just manner, I recognise their right to hold differing ethical standards to my own. I also recognise that you in your capacity as embodiment of all prevailing social, economic and political processes hold sole and total responsibility for this situation, and that it would therefore be unjust of me to act in such a way as to imply that the aforesaid villains held any legal or moral culpability for their actions. That being said I consider the current situation untenable, as it represents a violation of the property rights and right to freedom from violence upon which you are ostensibly predicated. Do you provide a conflict resolution service? Yes, I'll hold...'
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Blimey, all I could think of watching that was a box of eggs dropping on the floor/tapping a large soft boiled egg very hard with a large spoon
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Oh, do fuck off. I think you're choosing to look down the wrong end of the telescope at what I wrote, and determined to find some point of disagreement, when it should be pretty obvious from the tenor of our earlier interaction on the thread that I'm pretty much on the same page as you. And it's a pattern I notice in your postings quite often. So don't mind me if I really can't be bothered to get into some futile pissing contest with you, just because you want a fucking argument.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
It is weird around there, looks a bit sleepy but isn't
I lived on the south circ in that area and didn't feel safe on the road(s) by the station and saw a bit of aggro now and then
I’ve lost interest too but it’s often courteous, when telling someone they’re wrong, to offer your own take as to why. Never mind.
I think handguns are bit dodgy for the budding domestic security enforcer. They're all a bit illegal and stuff also having obvious weapons near your bed as well. The pro household defending hardman has weapons lying around which could conceivably used for every day stuff. Hence there being over 18 million baseball bats in the country yet only 7 people who actually play the 'sport'.
not-bono-ever
meh
They will have to take my steak tenderising hammer from my cold dead hands
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
In the hands of a trained killer, any domestic implement can be used as a deadly weapon - biro, scrabble tile, post it note. I'm not saying I am that trained assassin, The Guild insists on secrecy. But, y'know, just think on.
rekil
to menny cranks
Heavy Drinkers Against Burglars will hold a press conference shortly.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
In a country where they are legal, an awful lot of people end up being shot with their own guns, anyway. Some similar statistic exists for knife crime.
It was a bad strategic move on the part of Mister Burglar to herd the householder into the one room in the house with the most lethal weapons easily to hand
craigxcraig
Prefers 'cxc'
Been living in the centre of HG for the last five years and it's positively sleepy - I don't recognise any of this, or what was posted a couple of pages back.
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