Ok, I'm back! Was supposed to be going to an old work chum's house tonight to catch up and have a chat, but some imbecile/s decided to burglar her home today! Ransacked upstairs and took her jewellery and credit cards. Were obviously opportunists as they left the big stuff like XBox, TV, etc, not that that is any consolation!!
What is it with these people? What is it with this town? I received the free paper through the door this evening (News) and read through it while having a cuppa earlier on (before I knew about my friend).
The front page had a story about a man who'd run over a 10 yr old while drunk! He had his own 2 kids in the car with him, not strapped in, and was doing the school run!! Luckily the kid only suffered a broken foot, but that's beside the point! His excuse for drink driving: he was separated from his wife because she had been unfaithful and she'd asked for a divorce that day! Okay, I, perhaps, should feel sorry for him, but I don't!! If my partner had been 'unfaithful', I'd be bloody pissed off, not depressed. I'd be glad to see the back of him, not drowning my sorrows! AND, I would still have the decency to realise that I still had my kids to look after and be responsible for. Not only could he have killed the kid, but both his own too! Was she really, honestly worth that! I don't think anyone is!
Page 2 contained a story about a historic pub being burned down. It didn't mention arson, but buildings rarely spontaneously combust!
Page 3 had two stories. One about a man who'd threatened his wife (who'd left him) with a samurai sword and on his son-in-law managing to wrestle the sword away from him (the paper's words, not mine) he proceeded to say that he would be back to kill her with a shotgun!!! Another was about a 21yr old male who set light to a 14yr old schoolboy, hair and clothes, because he allegedly was after his iPod!
Page 4 there is a story about 2 men attacking someone in their own back garden. The victim's garden, not the assailant’s.
Page 5 is a story about conmen targeting the elderly.
Page 6 a story about a football supporter who caused trouble on a homeward bound bus being fined £80.
Page 7: Thieves stole £80,000 (yes you read that right) of heavy duty construction machinery.
Page 8: A landlord accused of fly tipping his tenant's possessions and a heroin addict being convicted of drugs possession.
Page 9: A school bus driver having intimate relations with a 13yr old girl (no details, but you get the idea) AND another heroin dealer being jailed.
Page 11 (page 10 was a full page advert), owner of dog who attacked kid is found guilty of having a Staffordshire Bull Terrier out of control.
Page 14: Two more stories - one man who broke into houses and stole handbags and jewellery and one about a woman who seems to have £8,000 which she cannot account for.
Beyond this the paper contains more ads, car pages, house pages and the classified section followed by the sports bits.
Looking over this, anyone would think we live in London or Birmingham or any other of the big cities, but we don't! The paper covers Chatham, Rochester, Gillingham, Rainham and Strood and you can walk from one end, Rainham, to the other, Strood, easily in a less than a day (to be honest you could probably do it in an afternoon). And this was the free paper; lord alone knows what's in the paying copy!
I've lived here all my life and I know it has always had its 'bad areas', everywhere does, but, and maybe it's because I'm getting old, it seems to be worse now than ever and it seems to be everywhere.
No-one has any respect for anyone else or anyone else's property. It seems now that whatever you want, you just go and take. If you want to get drunk and shout abuse at people, that's ok. If you want to walk around with dogs off leads that have lockjaw and you haven't trained them to do anything but breed or dogfight, that's ok too! And if your idiotic partner wants to spread themselves around, then it's ok for you to get blindingly drunk and then drive your kids to school!!
Oh well, I've had my rant, I'm off now to get blindingly drunk, shout abuse at my neighbours and set my dog on their cats. But that's all ok apparently!!
Cya
PS: Not really!! xxxx
PPS: Don't know what's happening with the formatting on this blog - but it's playing up big time!! Grrrrrr
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