Ah. Look What I Found Out.

[Togo]

Seems like another thread went left. Still plenty going on elsewhere.. No arrests were made or anyone jailed in the making of this report. Gunmen run free whilst "protesters" are silenced with incarceration. Makes you proud to be British no doubt.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/27/gun-free-britain-drive-by-shooters-spray-house-multicultural-manchester/

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON
/// Where's the likes of the Kray Twins when you need them, eh? ///

Pathetic post on just two violent individuals from the past, when we now have mass killings on our streets.

[Zacs-Master]

Mass killings? Your idea of ‘mass’ must be very different to mine.

So, come on, when we’re our streets safe?

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master
/// When, exactly, were our streets safe? ///

Well it may sound strange to you but I remember a time when I never saw a policeman wearing a stab vest and carrying an automatic weapon.

A time when there were no concrete blocks to protect one from being mowed down by a terrorist in a vehicle.

A time when most lads carried a sheath knife on their belts, without the thought of stabbing a fellow being ever entering one's mind.

[Zacs-Master]

OK, so when was this?

[anotheoldgit]

Oh I have just remembered before another history buff comes up with it, then there was Jack the Ripper, "frightening".

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // Where's the likes of the Kray Twins when you need them, eh? //

I think Corby was being sarcastic.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master
/// OK, so when was this? ///

Surely you are not that naive, use your common sense or ask your dad.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// I think Corby was being
sarcastic. ///

Obviously, but it would have been more adult to agree with me, regarding the deterioration of the safety on our streets.

[THECORBYLOON]

What were the Kray Twins and their ilk doing then? There were gangs up and down the country.

Why did lads need to walk around with a sheath knife?

[anotheoldgit]

I apologise for my side tracking, but I have innocently been forced down that track by the AB's experts on thread derailment.

[anotheoldgit]

That was addressed to Togo.

[Zacs-Master]

You can’t answer the question can you, AOG. Proving that, once again, your idealised view of the past is completely made up.
There has been no point in history when our streets were 100% safe, and you know it. Why do you persist with such garbage? It only serves to weaken your arguments.

[Mamyalynne]

It was obvious from the very start that this thread was less about the drive by shooting in Cheetham Hill, more to do with something else altogether.

I hope they do catch those responsible of course.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

/// Why did lads need to walk around with a sheath knife? ///

A number of reasons, to carve their name on trees, to cut a branch to make their bows and arrows and their catapults and for target practice, they were also part of a Boy Scout's uniform

We also carried Army knives that had two blades a tin opener and a folding spike for getting stones out of horses hooves.

[anneasquith]

We didn't have many horses going up and down our streets to require removal of stones .

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

Think what you choose to think, I have already answered you, I am also old enough to have witnessed those times, not what I have been brain washed into believing, like you obviously.

/// There has been no point in history when our streets were 100% safe, and you know it. Why do you persist with such
garbage? ///

And where have I ever said that the streets have ever been 100% safe, that would be ridiculous to state, I mean one could be run down by a delivery horse or even a tram and of course not forgetting it was pretty dangerous walking the streets during an air raid.

[sp1814]

The Britain of the past suuuuucked.

But it wasn’t just Britain. The whole world was rubbish.

[Zacs-Master]

‘on our once safe streets‘

You did say it AOG. There was no mention of any percentage. Either they were safe, or they weren’t. There’s no ‘they were a bit safe’.

[anotheoldgit]

Remember it well do you sp1814?

[Zacs-Master]

Better than you seem to.