Bag's Rants

Living your life in fear. Life in the UK.

Just went and picked up my son from his friends house. Noticed the new front door has been damaged so I asked 'What happened here?' as I walked in. Well the woman of the house told me and what a sad tale it is too and a sad reflection on society in the UK.

It seems that this woman living alone with three kids, one, a girl, 16, and two sons 15 and 12 has been subject to harassment for a few years. A few kids up the road have been throwing rubbish on the garden, puncturing her tyres and scratching her car just because the kids stick in at school, keep themselves to themselves and are therefore seen as odd.

Last Thursday evening, when it was snowing, snowballs were being thrown at her new windows and doors, not just the ordinary little snowballs but the ones with the solid ice centres. They were making loud impact noises so she went out and shouted at them to stop. In retaliation the gang of about 10 youths started throwing stones and rubbish. She went inside and called the police, or tried to..... After 20 minutes a phone was picked up in Winsford 30 miles away, our new 'local' police station. 'Great Sutton, Where is that exactly? This is for Cheshire only. Oh! it is in Cheshire. Right I'll pass on the message'. Not a thing all night. They eventually stopped their terrorisation of a defenseless family probably out of boredom and went off to get more drink.

Next evening she went out to visit her mother leaving the eldest in the house. At her mothers she got a hysterical phone call from her daughter. They were hammering at the doors and windows and a couple were kicking at the front door. 'Phone the police I'm on the way back'

The girl phoned 999 only to be told 'This line is not for this sort of thing. Phone your local police station.' By the time mummy got home they had gone on to better things. Meanwhile no police came at all. No crime recorded so no harm done and no police required. The new 101 call line at 10p a minute looks like it is already place in our 'advanced' county. Where police will take 999 calls about speeders but not about people trying to kick your front door in. That number alone will cut the crime rate as people ain't going to use it and pay 10p a min for someone to give you a crime number. Bearing in mind that our coppers are really hot on these new ANPR vans, mobile radar units and streetcams. You also never see a copper on the beat at all now either. The Cheshire Police Motto - Making Cheshire Safer. HaHaHa

Now admittedly she lives in a rough neighborhood. Probably about a third of the local area falls into this category now but you would have thought a gang of youths terrorising a defenseless family and trying to kick in a door would be something on their radar. Oh Radar. Used for the real criminals.

So next day she went down to the police station to complain. Seems it's more for custody and a tea house nowadays as all the detecting is done in Winsford. The desk sergeant was sympathetic, or was that pathetic, he said that they were powerless to stop these gangs and suggested she complain to Winsford. She mentioned that she was going to put up some cameras to record this for the future and was warned that they must not impinge on people privacy walking down the street and should only record her own property or she would be prosecuted. I said I thought she must have misunderstood but she was adamant that was what he said. So no help and one of the only actions open to her could leave her prosecuted. I understand she is not the only one in that area this is happening to. Bar moving home, where she has stayed for over thirty years, there is nothing else she can do. She can't use any tools to defend herself due to our stupid laws that protect these scum at her expense. They throw stones and abuse and if she waves a rolled up newspaper at them she gets prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law.

It's hard to believe that this is the UK we are talking about but such is the state of society in Auntie Tony's utopia. Oh, and Tony she voted for you because she thought you were going to be good for the country. I didn't ask but I'm sure she won't make that mistake again.

posted by Bag @ 9:40 pm