This sums up the state of the UK for me

[mickythefish]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/dad-killed-one-punch-ask...

''Dragos was found unconscious shortly after midnight, by which time others had stolen his belongings.

Dragos leaves behind a wife and two children.''

A throw a way line about a tragedy, just sums up modern Britain to me. Forget the politicians, real crime on real people is abhorrently bad and the police just don't care anymore.

[Drumroll]

mickythefish said:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/dad-killed-one-punch-ask...

''Dragos was found unconscious shortly after midnight, by which time others had stolen his belongings.

Dragos leaves behind a wife and two children.''

A throw a way line about a tragedy, just sums up modern Britain to me. Forget the politicians, real crime on real people is abhorrently bad and the police just don't care anymore.

Sorry I can't agree that the police don't care. We expect our police to do more with less resources. Nothing to do with "caring"

[Dingu]

Drumroll said:

mickythefish said:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/dad-killed-one-punch-ask...

''Dragos was found unconscious shortly after midnight, by which time others had stolen his belongings.

Dragos leaves behind a wife and two children.''

A throw a way line about a tragedy, just sums up modern Britain to me. Forget the politicians, real crime on real people is abhorrently bad and the police just don't care anymore.

Sorry I can't agree that the police don't care. We expect our police to do more with less resources. Nothing to do with "caring"

It’s yet another whinging thread from Micky. They are rarely intellectually coherent.

Edit: as proven by the subsequent post.

Edited by Dingu on Thursday 31st October 22:46

[mickythefish]

Drumroll said:

Sorry I can't agree that the police don't care. We expect our police to do more with less resources. Nothing to do with "caring"

one of the richest countries in the world, someone dying on a pavement on a busy street, and robbed instead of helping. Nothing about trying to arrest them, i say they don't care.

[mac96]

And yet the culprit not only was arrested but is in court. So Police did their job.

[Arnold Cunningham]

Except we’re not really, are we. Not even in the top 20 GDP per capita. We once were, but those days are long gone.

[mickythefish]

mac96 said:

And yet the culprit not only was arrested but is in court. So Police did their job.

robbery.

less than 5% of robberies and burglaries are solved. Again blame everyone except the actual people whose job it is to enforce the laws?

[Dingu]

Maybe pick this thread back up OP.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

You can tell us how much better it is wherever you go.

[Tindersticks]

mickythefish said:

one of the richest countries in the world, someone dying on a pavement on a busy street, and robbed instead of helping. Nothing about trying to arrest them, i say they don't care.

Which part of arrested and charged aren’t you understanding?

[mickythefish]

Tindersticks said:

Which part of arrested and charged aren’t you understanding?

I guess i'm different then, because i just find these very odd, and sad really.

[Tindersticks]

mickythefish said:

I guess i'm different then, because i just find these very odd, and sad really.

Yeah. The rest of us just love stuff like this. Makes us happy.

[mac96]

mickythefish said:

mac96 said:

And yet the culprit not only was arrested but is in court. So Police did their job.

robbery.

less than 5% of robberies and burglaries are solved. Again blame everyone except the actual people whose job it is to enforce the laws?

You said there was 'nothing about trying to arrest them' in an article about the culprits court appearance, so they obviously were arrested.
Not sure where I blamed anyone.
I agree that the clear up rate is far too low.

[jdw100]

mickythefish said:

mac96 said:

And yet the culprit not only was arrested but is in court. So Police did their job.

robbery.

less than 5% of robberies and burglaries are solved. Again blame everyone except the actual people whose job it is to enforce the laws?

With a rate of 5% this is, in fact, a good news story.

Well done the Police.

[Greendubber]

Tindersticks said:

mickythefish said:

one of the richest countries in the world, someone dying on a pavement on a busy street, and robbed instead of helping. Nothing about trying to arrest them, i say they don't care.

Which part of arrested and charged aren’t you understanding?

All of it.

[Alex Z]

mickythefish said:

Drumroll said:

Sorry I can't agree that the police don't care. We expect our police to do more with less resources. Nothing to do with "caring"

one of the richest countries in the world, someone dying on a pavement on a busy street, and robbed instead of helping. Nothing about trying to arrest them, i say they don't care.

How did he end up in court if nobody tried to arrest him?

Sadly, stealing from people who can’t protect themselves is human nature for some folk. Always has been, always will be. A friend who is dying of cancer collapsed in the street recently, and had someone trying to take his mobile phone before a bystander intervened, buy you’ll find similar things happening throughout history.

[Roofless Toothless]

Alex Z said:

How did he end up in court if nobody tried to arrest him?

Sadly, stealing from people who can’t protect themselves is human nature for some folk. Always has been, always will be. A friend who is dying of cancer collapsed in the street recently, and had someone trying to take his mobile phone before a bystander intervened, buy you’ll find similar things happening throughout history.

Of course it did. When William the Conqueror, of all English kings, breathed his last, everybody around his bedside immediately fell in to stripping his body of his clothes and valuables and then scattered in all directions, leaving the king naked on the floor.

[KTMsm]

mickythefish said:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/dad-killed-one-punch-ask...

''Dragos was found unconscious shortly after midnight, by which time others had stolen his belongings.

Dragos leaves behind a wife and two children.''

A throw a way line about a tragedy, just sums up modern Britain to me. Forget the politicians, real crime on real people is abhorrently bad and the police just don't care anymore.

Britain ?

The only British thing in this saga was the location

Yet another example of the benefits uncontrolled immigration

[charltjr]

KTMsm said:

Britain ?

The only British thing in this saga was the location

Yet another example of the benefits uncontrolled immigration

Yeah, even the judge doesn't have a British name. Disgusting innit, send 'em all back.

No way any British person would ever get involved in a fight with a tragic outcome.... oooh no, just doesn't happen.

[BikeBikeBIke]

Roofless Toothless said:

Alex Z said:

How did he end up in court if nobody tried to arrest him?

Sadly, stealing from people who can’t protect themselves is human nature for some folk. Always has been, always will be. A friend who is dying of cancer collapsed in the street recently, and had someone trying to take his mobile phone before a bystander intervened, buy you’ll find similar things happening throughout history.

Of course it did. When William the Conqueror, of all English kings, breathed his last, everybody around his bedside immediately fell in to stripping his body of his clothes and valuables and then scattered in all directions, leaving the king naked on the floor.

Point of order, that was in France.

[Dingu]

KTMsm said:

Britain ?

The only British thing in this saga was the location

Yet another example of the benefits uncontrolled immigration

And I thought the OP would be the dullest contributor to the thread