Lawless London
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These happen all the time - but it’s when a couple happen quickly that the press realise if they report on all of the ones they normally ignore then they can build a narrative and some clicks. Realistically there’s a f
k load of crime every day, but most of it you’d never know about until the mainstream smell a headline and some revenue out of it.
I do wish it was better than it is. I do think it’s getting worse. But I do think you’d have to be quite unlucky to see anything during a visit to zone 1. I have lived in South London now for 5 years and still never witnessed anything serious despite stuff happening quite regularly.
k load of crime every day, but most of it you’d never know about until the mainstream smell a headline and some revenue out of it. I do wish it was better than it is. I do think it’s getting worse. But I do think you’d have to be quite unlucky to see anything during a visit to zone 1. I have lived in South London now for 5 years and still never witnessed anything serious despite stuff happening quite regularly.
okgo said:
These happen all the time - but it’s when a couple happen quickly that the press realise if they report on all of the ones they normally ignore then they can build a narrative and some clicks. Realistically there’s a fk load of crime every day, but most of it you’d never know about until the mainstream smell a headline and some revenue out of it.
I do wish it was better than it is. I do think it’s getting worse. But I do think you’d have to be quite unlucky to see anything during a visit to zone 1. I have lived in South London now for 5 years and still never witnessed anything serious despite stuff happening quite regularly.
I'm 60, lived in London all my life and not always in the nicer part I'm in now.k load of crime every day, but most of it you’d never know about until the mainstream smell a headline and some revenue out of it. I do wish it was better than it is. I do think it’s getting worse. But I do think you’d have to be quite unlucky to see anything during a visit to zone 1. I have lived in South London now for 5 years and still never witnessed anything serious despite stuff happening quite regularly.
Sarf London upbringing and worked as a motorcycle courier, van driver and minicab driver in the 80s. Worked in club venues and gig venues in the 90s and early 2000s.
Always travel on London transport most of the time late nights for work.
I once had a knife pulled on me near Victoria station when I was 19 and I did get a beating from a gang on a bus when I was 20.
But apart from that
so far, thankfully, I have never seen any of the action and warfare that the papers love writing about.It's a big place with a lot of people and most of them are alright.
Now saying all this, I bet I get mugged tomorrow
Charlie1986 said:
Pleasant chap aren’t you
It was a point I made about 2 killings and as I write this make it 3.
You'd better move home, sunshine. Coz Kent appears to be a lawless, stabby hell-hole.It was a point I made about 2 killings and as I write this make it 3.
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/two-stabb...
article said:
Two stabbings, one 'violent assault' and a 20-year-old's tragic death as Kent endures week of violence
thompson9745 said:
Dingu said:
thompson9745 said:
So London’s a lawless cesspit where you shouldn’t wear a Rolex on public transport? Hmm. Woke policing to blame perhaps? Or have they also been defunded…
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thompson9745 said:
So London’s a lawless cesspit where you shouldn’t wear a Rolex on public transport? Hmm. Woke policing to blame perhaps? Or have they also been defunded…
Here's a suggestion which I suggest you run with. Just hear me out.There are, on average, about 6 stabbing incidents each day in Greater London. The area has roughly ten million people living and working in it. So the odds of any one individual being stabbed on any given day are pretty high.
So, I suggest that just before you set off for town YOU STAB YOURSELF!
I mean, what are the odds of someone getting stabbed twice in one day? Infinitesimal, I reckon.
You're welcome.
Blib said:
thompson9745 said:
So London’s a lawless cesspit where you shouldn’t wear a Rolex on public transport? Hmm. Woke policing to blame perhaps? Or have they also been defunded…
Here's a suggestion which I suggest you run with. Just hear me out.There are, on average, about 6 stabbing incidents each day in Greater London. The area has roughly ten million people living and working in it. So the odds of any one individual being stabbed on any given day are pretty high.
So, I suggest that just before you set off for town YOU STAB YOURSELF!
I mean, what are the odds of someone getting stabbed twice in one day? Infinitesimal, I reckon.
You're welcome.
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