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A youth was stabbed there this afternoon at about 2.30pm - 3.30 pm. I was told it wasn't a fatality but the boy was treated at the scene and taken to hospital. I hope he is okay and recovering. It was a crime scene until about 10pm when the cordon was taken away. Thoughts for the boy.

If you were a kid in an area of kids with knives you'd be tempted to carry. Plenty of studies in the area. Wouldn't surprise me if the victim had a knife. Do we deport him as well?


Not saying any of it is a good thing but it needs more considered analysis and understanding beyond "deport em"


We don't have a spare Australia in 2014 in any case

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Locking people up and throwing keys away. For

> carrying something

>

> The 18th century called and wants their policy

> back. It's prepared to offer slum housing and

> scurvy in exchange



Lol.


Hope the kid is ok and the idiot who did it feels remorse eventually.


I'm a fan of The Bridge and loved the way Martin broke through Jens' protective wall to make sure he was tormented by what he'd done and finally felt remorse.


Harder to do a sentence with your guilt invading your nightmares than with a wall protecting you from your remorse.

These days the gang controlled areas end at a certain point and if another gang member passes a certain lamp post or similar, he/she is in mortal danger. The police did some early morning raids across London last week on gang-related operations and made some arrests. They are taking i seriously it seems.

uncleglen Wrote:

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> These days the gang controlled areas end at a

> certain point and if another gang member passes a

> certain lamp post or similar, he/she is in mortal

> danger. The police did some early morning raids

> across London last week on gang-related

> operations and made some arrests. They are taking

> i seriously it seems.



This is the forum at its pants wetting worst. We've gone from a kid getting stabbed to full on gang warfare raging in ED...thanks stevieb23 and Unleglen. Gangs obviously exist and must be countered hard, wherever they proliferate.

But the non sequitur-fuelled ,cleavage-heaving panic mongering evidenced here , does not assist matters .

It only leads to things like the ludicrous " bullet riddled car" thread.

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