WTF is wrong with people these days?

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Good idea T-Bone...

Living in a Garrison town, I was out on the tiles with a mate last year (luckily he's about to complete his final year of studies before becoming a jr doctor).  

We were walking through town and heard some screaming and shouting a hundred yards ahead.  We passed a drunken soldier who was bragging to his g/f about what he'd just done.

Turned out he'd walked past two blokes and just laid into them both, for absolutely no reason other than to prove to his g/f how hard he was.  One of his victims was unharmed other than slight shock, but the other was out cold on the pavement.  My friend was able to administer first aid on the scene and briefed the paramedics when they arrived.

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@mdma


My condolences on the loss of a career and if it's any help I'm disgusted that the state we pay our taxes, national insurance to and are expected to give our unwavering patriotic support to has utterly failed you in every way.

We truly live in a society where the victim's rights come second to those who choose to waive their social responsibilities and then go crying to the lawyers if they think they've been hard done by.

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Fingers crossed...

If it were up to me, he'd be standing on a cold, damp parade square as a shivering, snivelling wreck with some Sargent Major screaming in his ear about what a useless piece of human garbage he is, before ordering him off to the barracks to polish everyone's boots.

Maybe after several months of this, he'd come away with the potential to at least make a positive contribution to society and maybe learn to take some responsibility for his actions?

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swift240 wrote:
The law is as I see it these days FOR the criminal and against the victim.

Yeah, that's my interpretation of it.  You can have someone commit a crime against you and if you dare defend yourself or your property then you risk charges being brought.  It's fair game for a criminal to have a go at you or your home, because even if he/she gets their ass kicked they can sue for assault and make cash out of you that way.  Easy money.

The Police are at an all time low in this country when it comes to public support.  I hate to bang on, but you can count on being under the full weight of the law if you speed or have no TV license (£1000 fine), but stand little chance of getting a conviction and/or your property back in a burglary, despite the myriad CCTV cameras we have in our towns.

Actually, an interesting case a while back.  A guy had returned home from an archery competition and was about to dismantle his bow and place it back in it's case.  He heard a noise, ran to the window and saw a young chav putting a brick through his car window and clambering inside to get the stereo.  He opened the window, drew the bow and fired a carbon arrow right into the chav's arse, causing a lot of damage in the process.

The chav of course complained to the authorities, who ruled that because the man happened to have a weapon in his hand, his actions weren't premeditated and therefore didn't constitute assault.  He was cleared of charges and best of all, it took surgeons a full hour to remove the (hopefully splintered) carbon arrow from the chav.

An extremely rare, but welcome victory for common sense.