The gardens police cordon

[MsDarkwood]

Anyone know why The Gardens has police tape across the entrance tonight?

[maritap]

I just passed there and wondered the same thing..

[tallulah71]

nope - been like it for hours

[Breton]

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.

[DanielPerkins]

Thoughts for the boy and I hope they catch the scum who did it. Any child/youth/adult carrying a knife should be locked up for attempted murder and the key thrown away.

[smashing]

Awful. Do you know where they were stabbed, in The Gardens??

[maritap]

Totally agree with you DanielPerkins.

[StraferJack]

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

[steveo]

Do you think it's OK to carry a knife Strafe?

In case you need to get a stone out of your horse's hoof?

As a 12 year-old scout, I used to walk around town with a sheath knife on my belt. One of my mates used to have a hand axe on his

SWAT team!

[StraferJack]

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

[stevie23b]

who cares one gangbanger stabbing another probably over a scores bit of weed

[StraferJack]

We can put people called " Steve " in the " bothered?" Category it seems

Aren't they lovely hmmmm?

[steveo]

Easy tiger

[Jeremy]

Carrying a knife without good reason is already illegal, isn't it?

Throwing away the key is obviously disproportionate, but I'd be interested to know what the policy/likely outcome is when a kid gets caught with a knife...

[northlondoner]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> We can put people called " Steve " in the "

> bothered?" Category it seems

>

> Aren't they lovely hmmmm?

He sounds deranged. Hopped up on too many episodes of The Shield.

[LadyDeliah]

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.

[Jah Lush]

stevie23b Wrote:

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> who cares one gangbanger stabbing another probably

> over a scores bit of weed.

Tell that to Damilola Taylor's parents. And trying engaging your brain the next time you post.

[pinecone]

it's time to bring back birching, and hanging.

[northlondoner]

pinecone Wrote:

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> it's time to bring back birching, and hanging.

And nipple clamps

[uncleglen]

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.

[Otta]

stevie23b Wrote:

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> who cares one gangbanger stabbing another probably

> over a scores bit of weed

"gangbanger"? Have you beeb playing too much GTA San Andreas?

[ED09]

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[northlondoner]

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.

[pinecone]

it's more likely the young unfortunate who got stabbed was a low-ranking drugs dealer who didn't pay his supplier on time.

[MsDarkwood]

Thanks for the clarification!