Whats the world coming to

shingle · Dec 8, 2013

Last week my 78 year old mum who's quite frail tripped and fell at the Old Steine, and bruised her face. As she was getting up a young guy came up and tried to take her bag. Yes, in broad daylight he reached over her and was tugging her bag trying to prize it away from her, she was saying leave my bag alone, and he only stopped because several passing ambulancemen stopped to help, and at that point he walked off. He said nothing as he repeatedly tried to get her bag, and neither did none of the onlookers who witnessed this.

If I ever catch up with this scumbag...

hybrid_x · Dec 8, 2013

100% crack or herion addiction......very sad.

timbha · Dec 8, 2013

take comfort from the fact that the attacker already has a very unhappy life

Justice · Dec 8, 2013

People seem scared of their own shadow these days any decent person would of confronted the low life. Hope your mums not to shock up over this.

A mex eyecan · Dec 8, 2013

All you can hope for is that what goes around comes around, but all I ever wish is that for low life shits likes this when it comes to their turn to receives its a thousand times worse.

Hope your mums okay and gets over this well. Wish her well from all of us here.

It's hard to remember at times like this, for every one ******** like this there still are hundreds of good people out there.

Goldstone Rapper · Dec 8, 2013

At the same time, there are billions of people in the world who would not do this. Get some perspective.

A mex eyecan · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
At the same time, there are billions of people in the world who would not do this. Get some perspective.

Who is supposed to get some perspective?

Mackenzie · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
At the same time, there are billions of people in the world who would not do this. Get some perspective.

Unnecessary.

Goldstone Rapper · Dec 8, 2013

A mex eyecan said:
Who is supposed to get some perspective?

The OP.

Herr Tubthumper · Dec 8, 2013

shingle said:
Last week my 78 year old mum who's quite frail tripped and fell at the Old Steine, and bruised her face. As she was getting up a young guy came up and tried to take her bag. Yes, in broad daylight he reached over her and was tugging her bag trying to prize it away from her, she was saying leave my bag alone, and he only stopped because several passing ambulancemen stopped to help, and at that point he walked off. He said nothing as he repeatedly tried to get her bag, and neither did none of the onlookers who witnessed this.

If I ever catch up with this scumbag...

Crap that the public didn't intervene.

Goldstone Rapper · Dec 8, 2013

MacKenzie said:
Unnecessary.

Not when the OP is effectively tarring the whole world with the same brush.

Herr Tubthumper · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
Not when the OP is effectively tarring the whole world with the same brush.

I'm not understanding this? Where has the OP done this?

Diego Napier · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
Not when the OP is effectively tarring the whole world with the same brush.

Of course he didn't. How on earth can you derive that from what he said?

A mex eyecan · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
Not when the OP is effectively tarring the whole world with the same brush.

No he wasn't. All he did was say whats the world coming to, which is a question, not a statement. He then said no one helped, which was an observation, not a generalisation.

Seems you missed the point of the post.

And to fair, if someone feels it's okay to try and nick the bag of an elderly lady who had already suffered a fall then they deserve everything bad that karma may see fit to bestow on them.

Goldstone Rapper · Dec 8, 2013

Herr Tubthumper said:
I'm not understanding this? Where has the OP done this?

In the thread title.

It's a terrible thing that has happened and I feel nothing but sadness for what shingle's mum has experienced. I also empathise with what shingle is going through in dealing with it.

Where I take issue is the attempt to make this awful incident symbolic or representative of the world or where it's heading. As I said, most people would not do such a thing as to commit this crime.

Goldstone Rapper · Dec 8, 2013

A mex eyecan said:
No he wasn't. All he did was say whats the world coming to, which is a question, not a statement. He then said no one helped, which was an observation, not a generalisation.

Seems you missed the point of the post.

And to fair, if someone feels it's okay to try and nick the bag of an elderly lady who had already suffered a fall then they deserve everything bad that karma may see fit to bestow on them.

It's not a question. There is no question mark. It's doing the tabloid thing of running a series called 'Broken Britain?' and then publishing lots of crime stories underneath. It promotes an unnecessary climate of fear and separation.

Mackenzie · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
In the thread title.

It's a terrible thing that has happened and I feel nothing but sadness for what shingle's mum has experienced. I also empathise with what shingle is going through in dealing with it.

Where I take issue is the attempt to make this awful incident symbolic or representative of the world or where it's heading. As I said, most people would not do such a thing as to commit this crime.

It just seemed a bit of a harsh thing to say to shingle after what's happened to his mum that's all. I happen to agree with him as well, what sort of society produces such shit human beings that'll try and pinch an old girls bag after a fall.

A mex eyecan · Dec 8, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
It's not a question. There is no question mark. It's doing the tabloid thing of running a series called 'Broken Britain?' and then publishing lots of crime stories underneath. It promotes an unnecessary climate of fear and separation.

No it's not and you know it.

Goldstone Rapper · Dec 8, 2013

MacKenzie said:
It just seemed a bit of a harsh thing to say to shingle after what's happened to his mum that's all. I happen to agree with him as well, what sort of society produces such shit human beings that'll try and pinch an old girls bag after a fall.

I'm not actually being harsh. Harsh would be allowing the OP to carry on developing a view of the world as unsympathetic to the safety and health of his mother, without showing there are many more people who are much kinder than the perpetrator of the crime. There may even be many more people out there that would have been courageous or effective enough to respond to his mother's needs, who just weren't there at the incident. Harsh would be not offering that as a different perspective.

I think it's awful what has happened to shingle's mum. It's worthy of consideration on its own as an isolated incident without having to transform it into a reflection of the world at large.

Timbo · Dec 8, 2013

Honestly, you could say that peodophiles probably aren't suitable babysitters and you could find somebody on NSC that would call you an idiot and say that they were.

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