*Bob*

jim_the_chin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i wlll be remembering to lock my car doors as I > don't always think it's necessary around here ? ? ? Good God.

Clare, will you be garaging your car from now on? Or if you don't have one, fitting an alarm ASAP - as a result of 'The Whateley Two'?

Please explain to me how I 'watch my car', to any possible useful effect, dv1. What new precautions will you be taking RE protection of your own car - in the light of this new warning?

I shall be sure to go outside and watch my car after hearing this news - all day, if necessary. If we all pull together and watch all of our cars, all of the time, then there's a good chance nothing will happen to our cars. We can do it. Actually, I'll be out for most of today. Can somebody please come over and watch my car?

At least clowns have painted faces, so the thorny issue of race can be avoided altogether. In many ways, they're the ideal criminal for Guardian-reading, politically-correct SE22.

Does you neighbour also while away the hours on the East Dulwich Forum.. dreaming.. dreaming of a better life..?

Good job too, Dom. You wouldn't want to have to 'fess-up that you live in Peckham, would you?

'I speak to my neighbours'.. that's right up there with 'the dog ate my homework'.

It's not a case of 'sending'. I'm merely pointing out that if a self-confessed Nunheadophile like yourself can't be bovvered to contribute to the burgeoning forum now on your doorstep then there really is no hope for the place. But I guess you've got your own reasons.

I tell them I live in Dulwich. If they insist on visiting I have to come clean and admit it's Peckham.

Perhaps the low turnout and activity on the Nunhead Forum an uncomfortable embarrassment to you? A reflection on Nunhead itself, perhaps? Regarding the 'Night Stalker', we are talking about someone who's pattern of offending covers one quarter of South London and beyond, several hundred square miles, a couple of million people.. I think I'm right in saying that means it falls into 'not East Dulwich speficic'.

Is slapping a corpse considered an assault, in the eyes of the law? Perhaps some of the legal minds on here can give us an insight. (Cameron, every time)

Britain seems to have an unhealthy obsession with crime. Pumped-up on television programmes consisting solely of roughly-compiled instances of gratuitous violence captured on CCTV, accompanied by a morose voiceover and a dark, menacing trancey soundtrack. The lines between what's useful and informative and what's sensationalist and mildly hysterical are often blurred.

I try to keep it to myself, to be honest.

We could have a 'Tony' section. It wouldn't be short on content.

It's only going to get worse (the reporting, not the actual crime rate). People have got a taste for it now. It (a separate section) might even serve a useful purpose, for the local fuzz, as well as residents. A spate of burglaries in a particular patch could be identified and the information put to use, instead of a general feeling that every house in East Dulwich has a 50% chance of being burgled - tonight.

The East Dulwich Forum seems to have mutated into an episode of 'Police, Camera, Action' of late. Should we have a 'crime' section instead? That way, those who are determined to feel terrified every time they leave their homes can check it daily to get their fill of muggings, burglaries, assaults and general lawlessness.. and those who prefer ignorant bliss can ignore it?

Well the Nunhead Forum seems to be a little light on membership. As a consequence it's somewhat quiet over there. Discussions, to date, are limited to threads such as 'Hi!' and 'Does anyone have the time?'.. that sort-of thing. It needs some help from people interested in Nunhead, like this place did when it started. From small acorns and all that jazz. Perhaps, even, help from people who are constantly banging-on about Nunhead - like yourself. After all, three quarters of your posts are about inequalities between the two areas. Now one of those wrongs have been righted, you ought to be all over it like a rash. So my question is this: when push comes to shove, despite all the rhetoric.. are you really all that arsed about Nunhead?

All for Nun, You could post it on the Nunhead Forum - do your bit?

HE DIES

HE LIVES

'shinks' It's a new idea. Could take off.

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Ted voted the same as me.

I wonder.. will Boho be able to retain the sevices of a top sushi chef*? *a fishmonger who can 'do shapes'