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This happened to me last year (at tge end of last summer) & I reported it. A young black male dressed in black with a black high topped baseball cap & sitting on a black bicycle (with no markings on it) knocked on the door very loudly & persistently. I eventually answered the door to find him banging his bike against my side gate, whilst trying his best to get in. He said he was looking for his friend Anthony & said it must be the wrong house. He then sped off.

It was pretty obvious what his game plan was!

Yes those young black male hoodlum hoodies do tend to get on their bikes and search for an easy opportunity, whether it be an empty house or a vulnerable person (but usually do it in gangs, as they are basically cowards) - don't give them any chances! I had my mobile phone snatched by one of them on a bike a couple of years ago in broad daylight ago and now i don't speak on my phone in public if i can help it.

ClareC Wrote:

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> Wottajoke Wrote:

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> > On the other hand the guy could have knocked at

> > the wrong house.

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> Pigs could fly.....


Why? The guy was walking away from house as they opened the door . Maybe it was just the wrong door .

Chips56 Wrote:

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> ClareC Wrote:

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> > > On the other hand the guy could have knocked

> at

> > > the wrong house.

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> > Pigs could fly.....

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> Why? The guy was walking away from house as they

> opened the door . Maybe it was just the wrong door

> .


Course it's not the wrong door. He was a "young black male".

Loz Wrote:

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> northlondoner Wrote:

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> > Course it's not the wrong door. He was a "young

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> You can never quite tell tone of voice from the

> written word, can you? Sarcasm or racism? Hmmmm.


xxxxxx


Sarcasm in this case, surely? That was how I read it, anyway.

Prunella_Gatsby Wrote:

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> Yes those young black male hoodlum hoodies do tend

> to get on their bikes and search for an easy

> opportunity, whether it be an empty house or a

> vulnerable person (but usually do it in gangs, as

> they are basically cowards) - don't give them any

> chances! I had my mobile phone snatched by one of

> them on a bike a couple of years ago in broad

> daylight ago and now i don't speak on my phone in

> public if i can help it.



This is one of the most ridiculous things i have read in a while. 'One of them'. Pffft.

Lumping all black, teenage, hoody wearers together is definitely a backwards step towards encouraging unity in the community. Pure xenophobia.


EDIT: .... And stereotyping

It has to be said, that reading some of these comments and some of the threads on this forum don't show East Dulwich in a very good light. Whether it's people venting outrage at scruffy doorsteps and a whole bunch of other inane stuff, to displays of outright rudeness and the outrageous comment by PrunellaG on this thread. I'm dismayed that there seems to be no logical moderation by the admin.

"it doesn't say anything positive about this forum, or the Administrator of it, if that post remains"


Really? rock and a hard place innit. Comment gets removed and admin is accused of censorship.

The forum is made up of all it's contributors, they do not necessarily reflect the views etc.


In this case an iffy comment has earned rebuke by the community, and I would rather the forum was by and large self-policed than heavy handed moderation.


A quick look at posting history of prunella revelas her to be (at least ostensibly) a self-confessed little old lady who has posted rather obsessively about crime since experinecing her own 'a couple of years ago'.


I'd probably try to enlighten rather than suppress, no?

PokerTime Wrote:

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> I agree mickey.....it doesn't say anything

> positive about this forum, or the Administrator of

> it, if that post remains. I've hit the report

> button. We'll see if that prompts any action.


Snap, I too have hit the report button.

I also find it offensive, narrow minded and racist.

I can't help thinking poor bloke did make a genuine mistake, after all he WAS cycling away when the poster got to the front door..not trying to break in.

Often at night its hard to see door numbers from the street and mistakes can be made.

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