Anyone elses neighborhood gone to shit?

[Preme]

I live in a small welsh valley, its a small town, 99% population here is white, british, monstly welsh, now and again you see a black person or family, we have a few indians and chinese in our local takeouts - never a problem... no bigots or anything like that... sometimes you find when ur in an almost complete white place someone of another color creed could have problems, but if they come into a local pub skin color or creed isn't even looked upon... it, like every place has had it's delinquents but nothing really to cause a stir...

In the news recently there was a biker from a hells angel type gang got gunned down on the road coming from some motorbike meet up... in england... then last week the news hit about some 11 year old kid in liverpool got shot in the neck from someone passing by on a push bike...

now recently things have somewhat gotten worse where i live, there was an a shooting down the road, some months ago, but things in local towns or villages have seemed to got worse and the shooting here seemed to be an iscolated incedent...

anyhow i'm walking up to my local video shop tonight, (normaly out on a sat but shit i to bad a come down from an office do last night to do anything today so planned a night in..)

anyhow there is a big crowd all around the high street where 2 pubs are, just a few seconds up the road from where i live... some guy who is form here and family lives here went nuts with a metal chain, he hit some guy with it a few times to the ground and kept on hitting him outside of the pub... it was early on in the day at the time and not many about, he kept on doing it untill luckily three guys run in to stop it... the guy on the floor is ok now the other done a runner, not sure if he got caught or not...

it took the police over an hour to get there!

it was only thursday i was saing to my mates it makes you apreciate sometimes living in a somewhat quiet place like this after we heard about the liverpool shooting... then this happens... I mean fuck i'm always around here outside the pubs dirnking in nice weather, butshit man it makes you think WTF when you find out there are guys now doing shit like this for no fucking reason... i mean i can see now why shit in the states is so bad at times... i know you guys got really relaxed gun laws... but when mother fuckers are going around doing shit like this no wonder people are packing, then using them when their head goes...

i mean shit man fights happen and normaly they can get sorted out... but god damn when people go around hitting people with weapons or pulling out guns and shit the mother fuckers need to be executed, no fucking rehab, no pleading this and that and getting out... they do this shit once fuck them, execute the mother fucker.

[CFH]

My neibourhood is already shit. About 2 months ago the cops fired 12 rounds at a guy in a stolen car about 100 ft. from my place. Only 2 of the 12 bullets hit their intended target, the rest missed. If I ignore the crackhouse 3 houses over and the blatant midday drugs deals that occur, and all the crackheads wandering around its not too bad... And I live in fucking Canada, ain't nobody supposed to get shot here.
Luckily I'm moving in Nov. to a nice area... its not actually too bad around here, I've just had enough of it.

[Preme]

My neibourhood is already S***. About 2 months ago the cops fired 12 rounds at a guy in a stolen car about 100 ft. from my place. Only 2 of the 12 bullets hit their intended target, the rest missed. If I ignore the crackhouse 3 houses over and the blatant midday drugs deals that occur, and all the crackheads wandering around its not too bad... And I live in F****** Canada, ain't nobody supposed to get shot here.
Luckily I'm moving in Nov. to a nice area... its not actually too bad around here, I've just had enough of it.

glad to here your getting out of it mate - seriously considring moving soon too,

[slk123]

I feel for you, sometimes all it takes is a little hurricane to clear out the riff-raff. OK, bad joke but I live here so it's ok. Funny thing about a hurricane is it actually brings the people (that still live there) together once it's over. The locals here are much nicer to each other but it's the out of town help that causes problems. The trick is, you can't let it get to you.

Best of luck in your new digs!

[CFH]

I feel bad for ya Preme, because at least I can move away from my crappy neighborhood, but living in a small town would be a lot different (The town I live in has a population of about 300,000-400,000. Here in Canada we have tons of trouble with warring biker gangs and the fucktards that associate with them, but that is seriously unfair that a little kid would get shot because of some moron on a bike.
I agree with you that anyone who takes or destroy's a life should forfeit theirs. The legal system here is a goddamn joke, it seems like its set up to help and protect the peretrator rather than the victims. You can recklessly kill someone here and get less than 2 years in jail, its one of the very few things that makes me wish I lived in the states (no offense to you American's).

I feel for you, sometimes all it takes is a little hurricane to clear out the riff-raff. OK, bad joke but I live here so it's ok. Funny thing about a hurricane is it actually brings the people (that still live there) together once it's over. The locals here are much nicer to each other but it's the out of town help that causes problems. The trick is, you can't let it get to you.

Best of luck in your new digs!

You're from N.O.? How is the city doing? Is it as bad as I've seen reported? I've heard the gov't has pretty much abandoned you guys. That hurricane was a tragedy, but the response (from the gov't) was a crime.

[slk123]

"You're from N.O.? How is the city doing? Is it as bad as I've seen reported? I've heard the gov't has pretty much abandoned you guys. That hurricane was a tragedy, but the response (from the gov't) was a crime."

Yup, I'm in the big sleazy....er I mean easy (actually 20 min north but I work in the city). I lived here 3 months before the hurricane and I moved my family back 5 months after the storm when the company I worked for offered a lot of money to come back. Money wasn't the only reason, my parents took a pretty big hit so I also came back to help out. Once they got back on their feet they took off but my little family stayed.

I'm an old school dude as in real men don't cry but I just couldn't help it after arriving here a month later and still seeing the destruction all the way from N.O to Biloxi MS. All I could think about was pictures I'd seen of Europe and Japan during WWII. Just complete devastation and you just can't see how any city along the coast could come back from that.

Alas, people are resilient and all of the cities are bouncing back. In parts of LA and MS you can hardly tell there was a storm. In other parts, to this day, it still looks like it happened last week.

All I can say about the government is that I've learned it's best not to rely on them. Get yourself straight, make sure your family is protected then pray for the rest.......and I'm not even a religious man.

[Mark TKO]

was thinking about this other day

in last year or so more and more groups of teenage hoodie arseholes are starting to hang round the streets round here. And they give you lip when you walk past them - just showing off in front of the young lasses who are with them and idolize them. Will be walking past with the shopping and they will call you a prick cos you have bog roll in your bag or something. But what do you do ? If you say something back thats what they want and theres about a dozen of them. If you crack one of them then its you who will be hauled down the cop shop. This country has got too fucking soft I tell you. I am all for zero tolerance. We have had two middle aged blokes killed over here in last month who have tried to stop teenage gangs doing vandalism etc... One in his own driveway who went out when they threw a brick through his car window. So you can see why people are scared to speak up to these kids - Scared of kids Unbelievable eh

Give these kids a beating that doesn't do permanent damage and they won't do it again in a hurry I can tell you.

Cops been plenty of times to them to move them on but they just take the piss with the cops and give them lip and are soon back.

Its only going to get worse. Not sure if non UK people have heard the story that is dominating UK news at moment about a young 11 year old lad from Liverpool who was shot and killed on his way home from park by a hoodie on a BMX - believed to be 13-16 years old, not caught him yet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/6964312.stm.

Fucking annoying. We need a Paul Kersey figure on the streets to put fear of god into the little fuckers - you know what, it's got that bad I kind of mean that

[taansend]

I live in downtown San Diego and its as safe as houses. Obviously not the houses in New Orleans.

Anyway. I get home from work at about 3am and usually have to park about half a mile from my place and have no worries walking home.

I find that the States is a lot safer than the UK. Not sure if its cos they have guns here or people are generally less violent or maybe because I lived in shitty parts of London and now I live in nicer areas of the US.

I do find that crime here tends to be more within ones ethnic circle. Black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic and the only time I have had any bother is from some Northerners down my local English pub . Luckily, I had a handful of change which I tossed on the floor. They soon forgot about me

[Punisher136]

I live a good bit south of pittsburgh (where shootings are a common occurance). There's some towns around me that are pretty bad but the one i live in is just run down. I supposed there's a drug problem compared to "ideal" towns, but it usually doesn't lead to anything. There's no gang activity and a stabbing/shooting/murder only happens about once a year sometimes less. The drugs are just a by product of the fact that there isn't anything to do here. Its a good place to go too if your old and want a calm place to retire at, but if you're young it's a prison.

[Punisher136]

I live in downtown San Diego and its as safe as houses. Obviously not the houses in New Orleans.

Anyway. I get home from work at about 3am and usually have to park about half a mile from my place and have no worries walking home.

I find that the States is a lot safer than the UK. Not sure if its cos they have guns here or people are generally less violent or maybe because I lived in shitty parts of London and now I live in nicer areas of the US.

I do find that crime here tends to be more within ones ethnic circle. Black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic and the only time I have had any bother is from some Northerners down my local English pub . Luckily, I had a handful of change which I tossed on the floor. They soon forgot about me

there were 23,000 reported american murders last year. The good parts here may be better than the good parts over at the UK, but I can assure you the bad parts here are A LOT worse.

[Preme]

I live in downtown San Diego and its as safe as houses. Obviously not the houses in New Orleans.

Anyway. I get home from work at about 3am and usually have to park about half a mile from my place and have no worries walking home.

I find that the States is a lot safer than the UK. Not sure if its cos they have guns here or people are generally less violent or maybe because I lived in shitty parts of London and now I live in nicer areas of the US.

I do find that crime here tends to be more within ones ethnic circle. Black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic and the only time I have had any bother is from some Northerners down my local English pub . Luckily, I had a handful of change which I tossed on the floor. They soon forgot about me

there were 23,000 reported american murders last year. The good parts here may be better than the good parts over at the UK, but I can assure you the bad parts here are A LOT worse.

i thought that, shit they let just about anyone in here now, you know there have been a lo of reported cases of Tb breaking out coz of them mother fuckers won don't belond here?

[Punisher136]

I live in downtown San Diego and its as safe as houses. Obviously not the houses in New Orleans.

Anyway. I get home from work at about 3am and usually have to park about half a mile from my place and have no worries walking home.

I find that the States is a lot safer than the UK. Not sure if its cos they have guns here or people are generally less violent or maybe because I lived in shitty parts of London and now I live in nicer areas of the US.

I do find that crime here tends to be more within ones ethnic circle. Black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic and the only time I have had any bother is from some Northerners down my local English pub . Luckily, I had a handful of change which I tossed on the floor. They soon forgot about me

there were 23,000 reported american murders last year. The good parts here may be better than the good parts over at the UK, but I can assure you the bad parts here are A LOT worse.

i thought that, shit they let just about anyone in here now, you know there have been a lo of reported cases of Tb breaking out coz of them mother fuckers won don't belond here?

You have a monarchy and no constituion you have to live by, deport them all.

[Mark TKO]

Black on black, Hispanic on Hispanic and the only time I have had any bother is from some Northerners down my local English pub . Luckily, I had a handful of change which I tossed on the floor. They soon forgot about me

cheeky twat

[USA LOVES THE KLITSCHKOS]

Dan Rather once said that the crime rate in the city of Chicago was worst than it is in the country of Ireland.

[CFH]

Dan Rather once said that the crime rate in the city of Chicago was worst than it is in the country of Ireland.

I was watching a CNN special report thingy a few weeks ago about crime in Chicago, it focused particularily on the rash of murders among teens, mostly done by teens.
People seem to live without consequences for all but the most serious crimes these days...