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danrc

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2,797 posts

232 months

Sunday 10th May 2009
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Just a heads up really. Yesterday morning i was greeted with 2 coppers taking pictures and dusting for prints and foot prints on every car up the street from my house. Turns out a group of inbred aholes thought it would be funny to run over over car on the street denting roofs, bonnets, and tailgates plus kicking off a few wingmirrors for good luck.

As selfish as it sounds, i'm glad my motor was being used by the girlfriend.

I used to think Rosemount was a nice area but its starting to go downhill.

The street in question is West Mount Street, off Mount Street.

bds the lot of them.

scz4

2,744 posts

263 months

Sunday 10th May 2009
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I heard this on Northsound. Around 20 cars in total were damaged. They were saying the youngsters come from miles around, p1$$ed and seem to be targeting the area. No one was caught, even though it was a large group.

I have a friend who is a copper and he said Rosemount has the highest motor related crime in the city, mostly drunken vanalism.

I know a few friends who had their cars damaged in the area on separate occassions in the last year or so. One of them had his car broken into, but nothing taken. His neighbours car wasn't so lucky, they let the handbrake off and it rolled down the hill smile Other had his soft top slashed.

The cops have been dedicated patrols in the area as people were being attacked on the way home last year frown

I hate the UK sometimes. Could be an awesome country if it wasn't for neds & bams (and Gordon Brown).

paulqv

3,124 posts

217 months

Sunday 10th May 2009
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Quite Frankly the way to deal with these idiots is for the police to catch, detain over weekend,prosecute them all and then for them to be sued or disqualified from holding a licence.
Just wish the police would spend less time on speeding and more time on criminals! I keep wanting to ask traffic cops doing pointless speed detection for revenue raising about the people who smashed into my house, stole my car and wrote it off! When i asked the traffic cops if they had checked hospitals etc, was told 'just claim it on your insurance' and walked away!
Rant nearly over!!!!

xr287

875 posts

202 months

Saturday 16th May 2009
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Reidy10_0

1,123 posts

226 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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Now that you mention it my car was screwed in Kittybrewster a good few years ago.
Is that not the same area?

KENZ

1,229 posts

215 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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Sickening..400 quid down the drain..thats what my excess was. Had my fair share of damage in Rosemount to. Used to stay in Wallfield place.. I wouldn't park in the thoroughfare..i.e Rosemount place/Cragie loanings.

Edited by KENZ on Monday 18th May 16:58

KENZ

1,229 posts

215 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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One thing I notice in the Aberdeen City Centre. You see police around 8pm - 12.30am wknds, but not a lot after this time. It's as if they turn a blind eye to the drunkeness behaviour that goes on. You really need patrols up till 4am or shut the clubs earlier..

Edited by KENZ on Monday 18th May 12:06

danrc

Original Poster:

2,797 posts

232 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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4 people have been charged with the damage. Why the other 26 or how ever many were there were not done is beyond me.

There were some cars in a sorry state after all of this.

Kittybrewster is not too close really, but like someone has said, its used a through way for people driving and walking so all kind of damage gets done.


mdotd

6,951 posts

206 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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Feel for those who's cars got trashed; some wcensoredk did the same to my old car last year when I was 1 week away from selling it! Bonnet trashed, cracked windscreen and dented and scratched roof; that was on the hardgate between Howburn and Hollybank. I now make an effort not to leave my car anywhere on the hardgate or Holburn street on a Friday or Saturday night, although in truth no where is 100% safe.

Edited by mdotd on Monday 18th May 13:09

I-Mac

354 posts

249 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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scz4 said:
I hate the UK sometimes. Could be an awesome country if it wasn't for neds & bams (and Gordon Brown).
Isn't that the same thing ????

Aberdeen is the most unsafe-feeling place I have ever lived. I lived in Glasgow before and felt safer smile


MoreSteam

698 posts

212 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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I-Mac said:
I lived in Glasgow before and felt safer smile
Are you knife-proof?

jshell

11,895 posts

227 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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I-Mac said:
scz4 said:
I hate the UK sometimes. Could be an awesome country if it wasn't for neds & bams (and Gordon Brown).
Isn't that the same thing ????

Aberdeen is the most unsafe-feeling place I have ever lived. I lived in Glasgow before and felt safer smile
Agreed. Lived in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Aberdeen is by far the worse for chances of trouble at night in the city centre. Aberdeen is small with the bad areas having easy access to the Centre, but Glasgow and Edinburgh scrotes tend to stay mostly in the outlying schemes. Aberdeen police are ste too, that doesn't help.

steadyrock

4,239 posts

225 months

Monday 18th May 2009
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jshell said:
I-Mac said:
Aberdeen is the most unsafe-feeling place I have ever lived. I lived in Glasgow before and felt safer smile
Agreed. Lived in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Aberdeen is by far the worse for chances of trouble at night in the city centre. Aberdeen is small with the bad areas having easy access to the Centre, but Glasgow and Edinburgh scrotes tend to stay mostly in the outlying schemes. Aberdeen police are ste too, that doesn't help.
Interesting. I have lived in Aberdeen(suburbs) and Edinburgh (centre of town) and I have to agree; I'd feel perfectly safe walking around Edinburgh town centre at night(even across the Meadows!) but would not feel safe heading around Aberdeen town centre. I visit my sister fairly often in Glasgow and, in the day, I'd feel safe almost everywhere; I wouldn't even go out where she lives at night, lol.

KENZ

1,229 posts

215 months

Tuesday 19th May 2009
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Aberdeen is small with the bad areas having easy access to the Centre, but Glasgow and Edinburgh scrotes tend to stay mostly in the outlying schemes. Aberdeen police are ste too, that doesn't help.
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Agree. Still if we had better Police, not just more CCTV then it would help. Very rarely do I see cops on the beat and I live in the city centre.

jerwatt

25,044 posts

223 months

Tuesday 19th May 2009
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I live just up the road from Rosemount and it's a pretty dodgy area. Been offered "favours" by an old man before, and quite often a few dodgy people hanging around all the time. Wouldn't leave a car on the street if I had one.

In terms of the police a friend's brother transfered up here from down in England, and says the police are really bad compared to down there, just not bothering to do anything about a lot of "small" crimes.

Kiltie

7,505 posts

268 months

Tuesday 19th May 2009
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jerwatt said:
... offered "favours" by an old man ...
scratchchin ... ... nuts ... paperbag

hurl

Edited by Kiltie on Tuesday 19th May 15:10