I know that the title is a bit ironic but this somewhat macabre title just underlines the horrible reality with people leaving in this city have to deal with on everyday basis. Actually, whether you lived long enough in Manchester or not can be detected very easily - if you didn't find the tile of this post sarcastic than you are still a greenhorn in the rough North.A car of a good friend of mine got broken into. She is giving the footage on her forum. The link to her post can be found here.
After living for nearly more than 3 years in UK I still can't understand why is small crime like this proliferating. It is really strange that people who commit these crimes don't really care about consequences. Either the punishment measures of them seem to be to soft or they are just sick in their heads and this seem to be genetic.
This story is just a parade example of what seems to be more or less normal in this city. If I tell somebody that my car got broken into I will be confronted with other people exposing same experience. I mean a more severe punishment is might be not a solution as it assumes that these people has to be caught first but at least giving more power to victims would be appreciated. This reminds me of the next story which happened nearly a year ago to another friend of mine. He caught the people who were about to break into his car (check this out - in his garage) and got down one of them with a baseball bet. Now guess what... he had a choice between being sentenced to 3 weeks of jail or being fined for inappropriate use of force as the stupid *** whom he got down was under 18... such a pity that you can't ask them for their age fist before they are about to knife you.
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Maybe they should just display their ID where it can be seen, this age thing does (I think) play a part in the reasons why most of the petty crimes are committed by youngsters. Simply because they know they won't be prosecuted and that they are protected. Safe and Peaceful Manchester.
Corporal punishment this is the key word... or even better - public crucifying! I'm sure that will keep the crime rate down.
I am not sure if enough effort has been made to keep the crime rates down, as far as I can see, it does seem that crimes relating to youngsters are on the rise.
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