Violence: would you feel nervous...

[SpodoCommodo]

... if other people in the building where you live had just been involved in a knife fight in the street with people from the next two houses? 4 cop cars and an ambulance (I hope it's nothing minor) have turned up. (This is in Poole, not an innercity area).

There have been a few indications that there have been problems but I didn't think it would get to anything like this.

I just hope that the property management company that run all 3 houses remove these people immediately.

And one of the ******** has taken the wireless router that provides the free wireless connection that I usually use to get on the internet, leaving me with a very slow mobile connection; another resident uses it for work so at least I'm not been left in that situation.

[albaqwerty]

the nasties will be shouting about their human rights whilst everyone else who lives nice quiet law-abiding lives have to do without loads of things.
and yes, I would feel nervous

[stokemaveric]

good god where do you live....the bronx??????????

[caththecrazy]

I wouldnt be able to answer I'd be shaking so much - agree with first 2 comments

[SpodoCommodo]

No it's not the Bronx, and the fear is that this could be just round one; not knowing if there will be any retaliation later tonight, or tomorrow night (there have some minor incidents on previous Friday nights). Some, but not necessarily all, of those involved are East European because these properties are relatively cheap to rent, so whether this is some sort of ethnic clash between them I just don't know.

And I'm a generally nervous person, so that's why I started this thread in the hope that putting my thoughts into writing might help alleviate them, if only slightly.

[caththecrazy]

I live in a village not far from a town where there are large groups of eastern europeans and they seem to have a lot of clashs which ,if you believe what the papers report,always involve knives. Seems to be the norm - one reason I rarely go into the town even during the day

[stokemaveric]

sorry to hear of your dilema spodo that is truly terrible,there seems to be a knife culture in the eastern european people,but its not acceptable in our country is it?...are the b.n.p actually right in their views?????????

[SpodoCommodo]

Thanks for the sympathy stokemaveric but this is not about the BNP who are a divisive group that is rightly seen as risible by most people.

In case you haven't noticed there are just as many white youngsters as any other ethnic group who constitute the subclass of knuckle-draggers that are the (sizeable) minority that exist in this country today; and I blame Thatcher who claimed that there is "no such thing as society" - her policies came to fruition in this regard a number of years ago. Thatcher's children are today's Thatcher's parents.

[craft1948]

I and the majority of my neighbours are pensioners, many of us widows living alone. We live in a very quiet street and I must admit that I feel alarmed if a group of youths just walk past loudly effing.......I don't know what I'd do in your situation.