Walked to LL safely

[lenk]

Last night i walked along ED's notorious Barry Road, Uplands Road and then down LL towards Goose Green.

At no point did I encounter any lotharios, whistlers, clowns or dodgy youths. I didn't even see any policemen.

The whole walk passed without incident in fact.

Pretty boring round here isn't it?

[Brendan]

You see it's just this sort of thing that's going to bring the area down.

[????]

bet you saw a traffic warden though

[Only me!]

Or are you a traffic warden?

[Brendan]

I doubt a traffic warden would get that far without at least a few kids throwing stones.

[matthew123]

Yes but were you dragging a suitcase on your journey through the bad lands of SE22, so local thugs knew you were one of them to gain instant respect!?

[lenk]

matthew123 Wrote:

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> Yes but were you dragging a suitcase on your

> journey through the bad lands of SE22, so local

> thugs knew you were one of them to gain instant

> respect!?

I forgot to mention I was dressed as a policeman.

You should have seen the amount of 'spotted: policeman' threads up here last night. Mental.

[Gimme]

I've walked home through the streets of ED many times, every time in safety.

It is not very interesting but hopefully makes those living in terror about the mean streets (see thread on Barry Road) feel a little better.

[paragon]

I kissed a girl and I liked it

[reetpetite]

Whats that got to do with the price of bread ?

[Horsebox]

Good for you, Lenk, that's great! I'm glad you are OK.

It's probably because of the police car I spotted on LL yesterday - cause & effect, you see.

[Nero]

Did you not see a troika of PCSOs? They are v common around these parts?

[Sue]

I'm sitting in my house and nobody has kicked in the door yet this morning.

Amazing. It can only be a matter of time though, so I'm making plans to move to a less dangerous area like John 0' Groats.

[paulino]

there was somebody walking down your road this morning though, so I hope you haven't spoken too soon.

[lenk]

Sue Wrote:

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> I'm sitting in my house and nobody has kicked in

> the door yet this morning.

>

> Amazing. It can only be a matter of time though,

> so I'm making plans to move to a less dangerous

> area like John 0' Groats.

I saw a man near Goose Green night who definitely had that 'comtemplating kicking a door in' look on his face.

I followed him for a good 5 miles around South London before he got on a bus and I lost him. : (

[Domitianus]

All is not yet well! Do not get your hopes up! This morning I saw a piece of litter and a dog turd on Barry Road. I fear the villains who have tormented us so are still in our midst. Will we never be able to walk the streets in safety?

[lenk]

Caroline Phillips-esque musings in the London Evening Standard. Helen Kirwan-Taylor writes about muggings in the Capital...

"... a fellow mother at my son's school in sleepy St John's Wood was mugged for her Rolex in front of the school gates with all the mothers watching....One of the other mothers was even trying to pull him off."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23708520-details/Being+mugged+is+now+part+of+my+everyday+life/article.do

you see, it isn't just ED that is er, WRACKED BY CRIME

[Sue]

No doubt St John's Wood must border on very dodgy areas and I expect the mugger came from one of them :))

[Huguenot]

Trying to pull him off? That's a bit whacked rather than wracked, but still.

[shoshntosh]

a strange man just gave my four year old son a pirated copy of DUMBO outside my house.

is that weird, or not?

i should not have accepted it, should i?

(i was slightly unnerved)

[Ted Max]

That film is child abuse.

"Baby mine, don't you cry. Baby mine, dry your eyes"

Years of counselling follow.

Don't watch if you are of a human disposition.

 

[SimonM]

I was reliably informed by one of the Peckham Rye crows that his grandad did a song and dance in that♠ fillum...

[ontheedge]

deleted as was boring & didn't know how to delete

[jenren]

That's so funny! I'm laughing so hard because I live near Goose Green and in the middle of the night someone did get into my house and managed to go through everything and take stuff (including our wallets and passports). My child was asleep alone in his bedroom and a "for real" bad person was in my house and I didn't know it. Isn't that a hoot? And a few days later a "for real" bad person kicked in my next door neighbors' doors, and took all of their stuff including computer equipment holding an entire career's worth of work. Oh my god so funny, a real knee slapper.

Crime happens here. Nasty crime with real victims. Maybe you could just feel glad that you have been lucky so far?

[littleEDfamily]

Good post, jenren.