JAWS
15-Mar-06, 01:20
For those who think Wick and Thurso can get a little out of hand at times and also for those who think I sometimes have some very strange views about society and humanity in general here are some recent news items from where I used to live.
It probably explains my rather cynical attitude towards most things in general and some things in particular.
All the incidents I am about to describe have happened during the last seven days.
A busy Family Pub on Sunday afternoon full of people, many parents with children, watching the local team playing football on the TV.
Two men walk in and fire at least twelve shots from handguns wounding two of the men in the bar. They make off and run across some wasteland where both are pursued and shot, one in the back, the other in the head, and killed.
Their getaway driver calmly walked over to them, crossed their legs, collected their guns and balaclavas and drove off.
The bar in question is about a mile from where I lived and in a location I know well.
The reason for the shootings? One of the original pair had been struck in the face in a fight the week previously and was intent on taking revenge and restoring his “Street Cred”, more commonly known as “Respek”.
Both the dead were armed with guns and whoever killed them obviously had at least one gun.
Not a common Sunday afternoon’s entertainment I must admit, but similar things are not all that unusual.
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/207/207641_dead_named_in_pub_shootout.html
In Widnes, about 15 miles from where I lived, last Friday evening, two young men walk up to the entrance of a pub where there is a dress code. The doorman requests that they lower the hoods from their heads. One young male lowers his hood as requested and goes to the bar.
The other obviously decides that the request is quite unreasonable, pulls a handgun from the waistband of his trousers and shoots the doorman, wounding him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4805024.stm
Last Wednesday, in Urmston, about five miles from my previous abode, a young mother walking down the street is accosted by a youth who demands her handbag and threatens he will stab her two year old son if she fails to comply. Needless to say, she now requires a new handbag..
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/207/207650_knife_maniac_mugs_a_baby_aged_two.html
Welcome to the World I left behind when I moved to Caithness.
Oh yes, and none of those areas are by any means the worst in areas where they occurred, there are far rougher areas with far greater crime problems.
I find none of the above either shocking or unusual, they're just something that happens.
Caithness, I must admit, was quite a culture shock for quite a while, it really did take some time to adjust.
It probably explains my rather cynical attitude towards most things in general and some things in particular.
All the incidents I am about to describe have happened during the last seven days.
A busy Family Pub on Sunday afternoon full of people, many parents with children, watching the local team playing football on the TV.
Two men walk in and fire at least twelve shots from handguns wounding two of the men in the bar. They make off and run across some wasteland where both are pursued and shot, one in the back, the other in the head, and killed.
Their getaway driver calmly walked over to them, crossed their legs, collected their guns and balaclavas and drove off.
The bar in question is about a mile from where I lived and in a location I know well.
The reason for the shootings? One of the original pair had been struck in the face in a fight the week previously and was intent on taking revenge and restoring his “Street Cred”, more commonly known as “Respek”.
Both the dead were armed with guns and whoever killed them obviously had at least one gun.
Not a common Sunday afternoon’s entertainment I must admit, but similar things are not all that unusual.
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/207/207641_dead_named_in_pub_shootout.html
In Widnes, about 15 miles from where I lived, last Friday evening, two young men walk up to the entrance of a pub where there is a dress code. The doorman requests that they lower the hoods from their heads. One young male lowers his hood as requested and goes to the bar.
The other obviously decides that the request is quite unreasonable, pulls a handgun from the waistband of his trousers and shoots the doorman, wounding him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4805024.stm
Last Wednesday, in Urmston, about five miles from my previous abode, a young mother walking down the street is accosted by a youth who demands her handbag and threatens he will stab her two year old son if she fails to comply. Needless to say, she now requires a new handbag..
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/207/207650_knife_maniac_mugs_a_baby_aged_two.html
Welcome to the World I left behind when I moved to Caithness.
Oh yes, and none of those areas are by any means the worst in areas where they occurred, there are far rougher areas with far greater crime problems.
I find none of the above either shocking or unusual, they're just something that happens.
Caithness, I must admit, was quite a culture shock for quite a while, it really did take some time to adjust.