Where Do You Think It Happens?

[jagjag]

When a murder or something equally horrible happens, the friends and neighbours interviewed alway
s say you don't expect anything like that to happen here. Where do they expect it to happen, just down the road or the next town?

[anotheoldgit]

I suppose there is more chance of something horrible happening on some inner city sink estate, than in some quiet suburb.

[andy-hughes]

I think it's just an instictive reaction.

People always think that horrible things happen to other people, in other places.

If you can think like that, you don't spend your time wondering if your neighbours are psychos, and if behind every door there is a corpse waiting to be discovered.

No-one likes to think that where they live, and feel safe, is somewhere that something dreadful can happen, so the standard response when asked is "I can't believe it happened here ..." which is a reasonable response.

[jno]

you can find the likeliest spots here

http://www.citizensreportuk.org/reports/murders-fatal-violence-uk.html

[mikey4444]

We had some serious murders near where I live in 1999, where a woman, her two children, and her elderly mother were murdered. I can tell you it came as a very bad shock to us in the Village. More importantly, some people were very frightened by the incident and it affected their way of life for a long time after.

At the time, I used to do some voluntary work amongst OAPs and I used to visit an old lady twice a week and take her shopping in my car. But she refused to go out on her own for months after the murders, even after the perpetrator was arrested.

Nobody expects this sort of thing near where they live, especially if its a peaceful ex-Pit village like mine.

[Old_Geezer]

They expect it elsewhere, if at all.

[Gromit]

In the nearest big city.

London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Stalybridge.

[agchristie]

Nimbyism springs to mind.

[Mamyalynne]

I think Andy has it,an instinctive reaction - quite recently a terrible thing occurred within my extended family,all over the press and other media too.

Not us, we're ordinary was my first thought until I had time to recover from the shock and realise that everyone is ordinary till something extraordinary happens.

[Quizmonster]

One of my greatest comforts is the fact that I live in one of the "loosest-knit" areas one can imagine. I say that because, when there's a terrible murder almost anywhere, some reporter or neighbour is absolutely bound to say, "I don't understand it. This is such a close-knit area."