Same report, different reactions….
Overheard at a Guardianista North London dinner party
England rioters ‘poorer, younger, less educated’
Overheard in a pub in South London
40% were on benefits of some kind
Overheard in a golf club in Dorking, Surrey
Third of young looters had been expelled from school, police say
His girl friend compained that he hadn’t made any garlic bread – so he killed her, stabbing her 30 times.
A man was on the edge of a tower block balcony threatening to jump. Neighbours and police were trying to persuade him to get back but below a crowd gathered shouting “Jump”…they got their wish.
This woman was having a night out with friends and family when she was groped by some guy as she walked across the pub. She slapped his face. He smashed her in the face with a glass, leaving one of her eyes permanently damaged.
A couple were at home when they received a call inviting them to a torture party. They joined in the physical abuse of a young man and enjoyed it so much they invited everyone to take him to their house to make his life even more miserable.
No doubt the BBC/Guardian would blame it on THE CUTS – but old Tom Hobbes would have had a different view of a world where morality is mocked and law is absent from the streets…
no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.