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Stapleton Road - the most dangerous road in Britain

You gotta love the bombastic tabloid style:
IT'S Britain's most dangerous street - a moral cesspit where the pavements are heaving with killers, junkies, hookers and their pimps...

Meanwhile the street's decent law-abiding residents cower behind their doors in fear, struggling to raise kids amid burnt buildings, smashed windows and pavements strewn with syringes and used condoms.
That's exactly the sort of shit they used to write about Brixton a while ago...
 
IT'S Britain's most dangerous street - a moral cesspit where the pavements are heaving with killers, junkies, hookers and their pimps... Compared with that statistic, notorious crime spots like Manchester's gun capital Moss Side and London's Brixton look as tame as a WI meeting.

bristol - best in britain :D

article's full of mistakes and hyperbole though...

"The M32 which cuts Stapleton Road in two"

"£1,000-a-day addiction"

"They call Stapleton Road the Dixons of Bristol "

"Snarling hoodies and hopeless junkies roam the streets carrying knives and weapons"

"Stapleton Road - known locally as Crackhead Alley"
 
hackney has had those sorts of headlines, sandringham road, and amhurst road have both been dubbed very dangerous...

and one ofthe reasons for stapleton road being dangerous, murders on adjoining roads :confused:
 
I can't say I've ever had much hassle - a few weird men coming onto me, and hit on the arm with a plastic pellet shot from a car is all.

I am going to be walking home from work soon so I'll soon find out if it's got much worse since last year.

Looking forward to Wednesday's programme though :cool:
 
fat hamster said:
Since when was Stapleton Road only 150 metres long? :eek: :confused:

The online article doesn't make it clear but the photo in the paper was showing one particular stretch - from the railway arches to the junction with St Marks Road.
 
What a load of tosh!
Sure its one of Bristols more run down streets and a few years ago it was concidered the 1 street in mainland Britain that you were most likely to hear a gunshot, but Britains most dangerous street?? cmon!! surely Grovesner Rd/Wilder St are still a riskier bet at misnight???

The article is based on a article written several years ago by Tony Thompson , The Observer crime journo.
The article is a much better read than the one in The People -

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/drugs/story/0,11908,892149,00.html

although it is over 3 years old.
 
Geri said:
The online article doesn't make it clear but the photo in the paper was showing one particular stretch - from the railway arches to the junction with St Marks Road.
Well, unless they're claiming all 915 crimes happened along that bit of the road...but then, as bristle-krs says, most of the article's made up, so why not the statistics too? :rolleyes:

I bet BEST (Bristol East Side Traders) aren't exactly delighted at the article - Stapleton Road is their showpiece regeneration project! :D
 
Have just perused buffalosid's link:
Observer article said:
In a seven-month period, 915 crimes were recorded along a 150-metre stretch.
So that particular little gem was just a piece of exceptionally lazy journalism.
 
buffalosid said:
The article is based on a article written several years ago by Tony Thompson , The Observer crime journo.
The article is a much better read than the one in The People -

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/drugs/story/0,11908,892149,00.html

although it is over 3 years old.

well, not over 3 years old - february 03, like. i remember the article - it's as full of made-up and o.t.t. stuff and speculation as the people/sm piece, just better written. i'm sure we demolished much of it across a thread or two at the time :D (it linked in with the atrium discussions, the 'magic bullet' scandal, and the paramilitary police patrols stuff)
 
"Three murders in two months on adjoining roads"

That's gotta be referring to events a couple of years ago? BadNewsWade's housemate Alistair died after being assaulted on St Marks Road, someone was shot after legging it from the Black Swan chased by a gang and I heard someone breathing their last on Chaplin Road after getting stabbed. But it was all a while ago. Stapleton Road seems relatively quiet at the moment, as east Bristol goes.

I can't think of a single murder in Easton this year so far. Unless the unlucky taxi driver on Fox Road was this year but I don't think it was.

And where are the "burnt buildings"?
 
Stapleton Road's just a name people know about - I'd say the estates in Lawrence Hill are worse. They sound more like what's described - no windows and stuff. Crackhead Alley tho' <--- :D
 
The taxi driver, Colin Winstone, was murdered on 11 January 2005. I can't remember the names of the other people murdered so I don't know if they were within a two month period as alleged.

According to the Avon & Somerset website, there have been no murders in the area since April this year.

Link
 
well I moved up from the blue rinse capital of the South coast about 6 weeks ago and tbh I feel much safer walking home along Stapleton Road than walking through Bournemouth town centre on a weekend
 
editor said:
You gotta love the bombastic tabloid style:
That's exactly the sort of shit they used to write about Brixton a while ago...

According to the tabloids I've lived in 3 of the most dangerous place in britain, brixton, moss side and now easton/st pauls.

Yippee :D :cool: :( ;)
 
bristle-krs said:
which is it, dammit? :mad:
Wee obviously hasn't lived in either for too long - unless his house is immensely large, which would mean it's either invisible, underground or somehting else... :confused: :p :D
 
easy g said:
well I moved up from the blue rinse capital of the South coast about 6 weeks ago...

-You can run, but you can't hide...

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:D
 
easy g said:
well I moved up from the blue rinse capital of the South coast about 6 weeks ago and tbh I feel much safer walking home along Stapleton Road than walking through Bournemouth town centre on a weekend

I wouldn't say I feel particularly safe walking along Stapleton Road, because I don't - the bottom part is worse though, loads of men hanging around for no apparent reason does make me quite nervous. Once past the railway bridge though I regard myself as being on the 'home stretch' and almost to the safety of Eastville, which is obviously much more civilised ;)

I do think St Pauls is worse though - I've been mugged three times there and only once on the other side of the motorway!* :D


*actually right underneath, so not one side or another
 
Geri said:
...the other side of the motorway!* :D


*actually right underneath, so not one side or another

:confused:

the footpath never goes under the motorway, only under the junction - so are you talking about secret tunnels or something..?

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;)
 
I'd rather take my chances on the Stapleton Road than Corn Street of a weekend evening. For me the most dangerous place in Bristol feels like the central fountain area at post-club feeding time.

... mind you Stokes Croft was looking especially seedy this weekend. Maybe North Bristol is pitching for the title?
 
Cakes said:
I'd rather take my chances on the Stapleton Road than Corn Street of a weekend evening. For me the most dangerous place in Bristol feels like the central fountain area at post-club feeding time.

At least you can make a conscious decision to avoid going into town at night though.
 
Geri said:
At least you can make a conscious decision to avoid going into town at night though.
Yeah I'd hate to feel that way about the street I lived in. I just couldn't feel at home in that environment.

The worst thing that's ever happened on my street is when some people saw me talking to a bag because I though it was a cat.
 
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