how safe do you feel

I'm with you walnut and Rosa.
We never did anything near what Caj did.
My Dad would have killed me.
I was raised in Birmingham.
When we were children we played childrens games.
When I was 15 I went to full time work.
We were a close family .
We had to behave and have respect for each other or else.
I only remember fun, days out and lots of love.
Lots of family get togethers laughing and holidays.
No gangs fighting or anything bad.
You could walk the srteets in safety.
We also lived with my Nan and you didn't get on the wrong side of her. :eek:
We used to hear about the gangs fighting on the holiday beaches and laughed thinking they were idiots.
Mods and rockers. :D
We never saw any of them where we lived.
They wouldn't have been aloud.
I used to go into Birmingham when I was 17 ish .
To the night clubs to dance with my friends.
We would walk back through town and get the night service bus home .
No problem everyone did it.
No trouble in the clubs.
Eddie Futrell didn't allow it.
This would have been the late 60's early 70's
All in all I had a great childhood and even better teenage fun.
I worked so had the money to go out and enjoy myself.
We were very grown up at 16.
Never got into trouble always had mates and were always out doing something.

My children who are now 26 and 31 had a similar childhood.
They have never been in any trouble , always worked.
Have respect for everyone however they are.
I am very proud of them.
I did rule with a rod of iron.
I watched their every move and knew what they were doing and who they were with all the time.
They didn't stand a chance and they knew it so they didn't do it.
I didn't stand any back chat right up until they left home.
They still never swear in front of me.
Or show me rude texted they get sent
:D
We are all very close.
And have respect for each other.
I feel I have done a good job.
Being a stay at home Mom was worth every second.
But it's no good being a stay at home if you don't put the work in with the children.
I always said bringing up children was the hardest job I ever had.

[ 29. February 2008, 10:32 AM: Message edited by: Lyn ]

 

I think that one of the reasons that gangs didn't go round murdering people was that the Death Penalty was in force. But we've discussed that before. After our "youthful high spirits" we became "Hippies" and the older generation didn't like that either! (peer pressure, again). At the end of the day we all grew up, went to work and behaved "normally". I'm in contact with pals from that era they never turned into criminals. Maybe we need a war to burn off some off the adolescent aggression. :D

 

Plenty of wars going on Caj.that brings us back to conscription

 

:D :D

 

Can't see a problem with conscription. I'm sure everyone would be happy to see their kids go off to be killed in a war to support an American effort to secure oil supplies :D

 

a past time for our youth....
COACH driver had a lucky escape when yobs dropped a brick on his windscreen from a bridge.

Michael McCabe, 62, was driving the packed coach from Manchester Airport to Piccadilly Station when the attack happened on Princess Parkway, in Hulme.

The brick hit the windscreen above the driver's seat and cracked the glass, , causing �£2,500 damage.

Mr McCabe , said: "There was an almighty bang above my head and some of the passengers screamed. I knew we'd been hit with something. Then one of the passengers shouted: `They've smashed your windscreen!'."

He dialled 999 after reaching Piccadilly after the attack.Greater Manchester Police say they are still investigating.

Mr McCabe, who has been a coach driver for 40 years, said: "If the brick had come through the glass and had hit me, it would have been a disaster.

"The coach was as full as it could be with people and luggage. Someone could easily have been killed or seriously injured.

Mr McCabe, whose daughter runs the Salford-based McCabes' family coach firm, said yobs had attacked coaches with stones on Princess Parkway before.

He has also seen groups of youths stopping coaches at pelican crossings and trying to open their luggage compartments.

He said: "Something needs to be done to stop this happening.

"It's dangerous and it doesn't give people a good impression of Manchester if it's their first experience of the city."

Greater Manchester Police said an investigation into criminal damage had been launched, and inquiries were ongoing.

The spokesman added: "We treat this behaviour very seriously

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violent britian More than 100 people have been stabbed this year in London, the Evening Standard reveals today.
The dramatic scale of knife attacks was highlighted as a crackdown using hundreds of police armed with metal detectors was launched.
The Standard has collated figures from Scotland Yard, City of London Police and British Transport Police.
We found detailed evidence of 79 of this year's stabbings in which 33 people died. There were other incidents in which details were sketchy which take the total to more than 100 in just four months.
Ten were teenagers, with the youngest victim, 14-year-old Amro Elbadawi, killed in West Kilburn in March.
In total, police dealt with 1,664 violent "knife-enabled" crimes - which range from murders to muggings where blades were brandished to threaten victims.
The figure came after a string of stabbings in the last few days culminating in a 22-year-old being killed in front of hundreds of shoppers in Oxford Street, prompting one of London's most senior policemen to vow: "Enough is enough." Boris Johnson's most senior adviser on policing, Kit Malthouse, said knife crime was now tarnishing London's reputation around the world. "It is a scandal and a disgrace," he told the Standard.
"London is getting the name for being a knife crime capital around the world and we are determined to do something about this." Senior officers met yesterday after seeing Mr Johnson following the murder of Steven Bigby on Monday outside a McDonald's in Oxford Street.
Today it was revealed he was on bail accused of rape and a stabbing and was known to police as a member of a notorious north London gang. After the summit, Assistant Commissioner Tim Godwin said action would now be taken to deal with the knife crime culture. The operation, codenamed Blunt Two, is being launched in the London borough with the highest rate of knife crime.
Police are refusing to name the borough so knife-carrying criminals are not alerted. The searches will focus on transport centres such as bus and rail stations as well as routes leading to and from schools. It will be rolled out across 10 of the worst affected boroughs within weeks.
After the first night of the stop and search initiative, a police spokesman said no information was yet available on how many people had been stopped or arrested. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith gave her full support to the operation.
Police say the initiative is long term and designed to stop young people carrying knives.
The Met has received funding from the Home Office for an extra 300 weapon detectors. Mr Godwin said: "This is the time to say enough is enough. We have to drive down the number of stabbings in London.
"Our objective is not to harass people but to keep people safe. We are getting a significant amount of support for this. People from all walks of life want us to stop this."
Teams of officers equipped with airport-style "knife arches" and hand-held wands which detect weapons are being deployed on the streets.
Police will use stop and search powers under Section 60 of the Public Order Act to carry out checks on people suspected of carrying knives.
The wide-ranging order allows officers to carry out searches without having "reasonable suspicion" that the suspect is armed.
The move is expected to see a dramatic rise in the number of controversial searches carried out.
There is also to be a review of how knife crime is recorded so that the actual number of stabbings is made public.
The crackdown marks a break with Ken Livingstone's response to an outbreak of knife crime, when he accused the media of sensationalising the problem.
Mr Johnson said today that as an additional measure, uniformed police officers are to be put on the top deck of buses to support adults who want to challenge anti-social behaviour.
He added: "We're going to give adults more confidence by doubling the safer transport teams."

 

About Time!!!