Girl 17, stabbed in neck in Burnley

[Earthdweller]

At about 3pm today a 17 year old girl walking through Brierfield, an area of Burnley, in Lancashire was attacked from behind and stabbed multiple times in the neck

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2619134...

https://x.com/charlotteemmauk/status/2065517274568...

https://x.com/scopereport_/status/2065547119839047...

[Digger]

Why did you feel the need to post this, & what are you hoping to achieve?

[ziggy328]

To be faiir this type of occurrence does seem to be getting alarmingly regular.

[Digger]

If there was no X/Twitter or CCTV footage available, then it is blatantly obvious that the OP would not have started the thread.

[ziggy328]

Is it? I haven’t clicked as I don’t want to see it. It is however a crap state of affairs we find ourselves living through

[Scarletpimpofnel]

ziggy328 said:

Is it? I haven t clicked as I don t want to see it. It is however a crap state of affairs we find ourselves living through

I haven't watched it either and my immediate thought echoed yours, what has this country become. Poor girl.

Digger - why do you seem so indignant that such events are publicised; should we be kept in the dark what a dangerous country we live in?

[B'stard Child]

Digger said:

Why did you feel the need to post this, & what are you hoping to achieve?

New Politic and Economics is the section - why do you feel it shouldn't have been posted here and what are you hoping to achieve by questioning the post

[Digger]

My question was to the OP.

[BikeBikeBIke]

I'm glad to say he looks like his arrest wasn't too gentle, as is appropriate for someone accused of assault.

Girl ran away which seems like a good sign, I hope her recovery is fast and full.

Thanks for sharing, OP. I'd have missed this otherwise.

[Earthdweller]

Digger said:

Why did you feel the need to post this, & what are you hoping to achieve?

It's News, front page in the local
Paper and the Manchester Evening News and very topical at the moment

Do you think we shouldn't be aware of it ?

Do you also think that the local newspapers shouldn't report it nor that I linked to the news report ?

Maybe we should all be blissfully unaware, would that make you happy ?

What other News wouldn't you want reporting, and why ?

Edited by Earthdweller on Friday 12th June 23:46

[Digger]

Earthdweller said:

Digger said:

Why did you feel the need to post this, & what are you hoping to achieve?

It's News, front page in the local
Paper and the Manchester Evening News and very topical at the moment

Do you think we shouldn't be aware of it ?

Do you also think that the local newspapers shouldn't report it nor that I linked to the news report ?

Maybe we should all be blissfully unaware, would that make you happy ?

What other News wouldn't you want reporting, and why ?

Edited by Earthdweller on Friday 12th June 23:46

Thank you.

Should every single stabbing that occurs & mentioned in local papers be posted in NP&E? Then you have your work cut out.

You only posted it as you had a graphic video to share . . .

[Earthdweller]

said:

Thanks for not answering the question

It's also now on the BBC national news website

Does that mean you will now allow me to post it because it's no longer "local" news ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gypqp0rp9o?a...

[Digger]

Earthdweller said:

said:

Thanks for not answering the question

It's also now on the BBC national news website

Does that mean you will now allow me to post it because it's no longer "local" news ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gypqp0rp9o?a...

I guess so.

Carry on

[Earthdweller]

Digger said:

Thank you.

Should every single stabbing that occurs & mentioned in local papers be posted in NP&E? Then you have your work cut out.

This isn't a gang stabbing over some drug deal, this is a female child walking alone along a residential street in a small northern town, in the middle of the day, who it appears from reports in the press, was randomly attacked from behind by an adult male stranger who tried to kill her

And you think that isn't newsworthy and shouldn't be mentioned, really ?

[BikeBikeBIke]

Digger said:

Thank you.

Should every single stabbing that occurs & mentioned in local papers be posted in NP&E? Then you have your work cut out.

You only posted it as you had a graphic video to share . . .

Yeah, I'd say every stabbing of a random stranger in the street is likely to be posted on NP&E. They're unusual events. (Well less unusual than they used to be.)

[Digger]

Earthdweller said:

Digger said:

Thank you.

Should every single stabbing that occurs & mentioned in local papers be posted in NP&E? Then you have your work cut out.

This isn't a gang stabbing over some drug deal, this is a female child walking alone along a residential street in a small northern town, in the middle of the day, who it appears from reports in the press, was randomly attacked from behind by an adult male stranger who tried to kill her

And you think that isn't newsworthy and shouldn't be mentioned, really ?

It is on the BBC & presumably other news outlets now . . . exactly where it should be - not a lone thread here started by yourself, with very graphic footage & absolutely no personal comment from you whatsoever.

Smacks of attention-seeking to be honest . . .

[Earthdweller]

Digger said:

It is on the BBC & presumably other news outlets now . . . exactly where it should be - not a lone thread here started by yourself, with very graphic footage & absolutely no personal comment from you whatsoever.

Smacks of attention-seeking to be honest . . .

My comments on the OP are clear and concise and report the known facts, and only those

I have not attached sentiment, nor personal opinion/comment for a very specific reason.

what I wrote was known facts without any gossip or embellishment

The adults in the room are quite capable of reading a news report and forming their own opinion and drawing their own inference from it

Unlike you, the only one on this thread expressing an opinion and trying to police it

Edited by Earthdweller on Saturday 13th June 00:26

[OldGermanHeaps]

Digger said:

It is on the BBC & presumably other news outlets now . . . exactly where it should be - not a lone thread here started by yourself, with very graphic footage & absolutely no personal comment from you whatsoever.

Smacks of attention-seeking to be honest . . .

And here you are giving plenty of attention.
If you dont want to read discussion about newsworthy events maybe toddle off somewhere else?

[otolith]

Why’s it always a bloke?

Because we’re bigger and stronger and we can?

Because we’re wired differently?

Because we’re somehow taught to be like that?

[Heaveho]

Digger said:

It is on the BBC & presumably other news outlets now . . . exactly where it should be - not a lone thread here started by yourself, with very graphic footage & absolutely no personal comment from you whatsoever.

Smacks of attention-seeking to be honest . . .

People are free to start a thread on anything they choose to on an open forum. Who made you the arbiter of what's allowed and what isn't? I don't watch the news, as I prefer not to be misinformed. A post on here is often more accurate and more interesting.

Your problem with that is your own to deal with, do so in private, or in the Health matters forum.