Re: The credit crunch

"JackH" <jackhackettuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6n5scmFk0ffuU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Doki" <mrdoki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6n55f8Fjk31mU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Pete M" <pete.murray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:geipi0$h6t$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

A lot of the Czechs and Poles I know have gone back as they can't abide the crime levels in the UK and they can now make the same money at home as here now anyway.

Aye. I've heard many a tale of it having to be explained to Poles that you can't leave anything unattended or it will walk...

Move somewhere less pikey then - tempting fate by saying it, but in the nine years we've lived at the current place, we've never had anything more lifted other than a pair of flashing hubcaps I got free with Max Power and shoved on the boys BMX... and even they were returned after the usual scumbag kid from up the road was identified as the culprit.

This is in the face of me, in the past, leaving all manner of kit on the drive - tools, bicycles, motorcycles etc.

We're not out in the sticks either - 10 minutes walk from the city centre?


Yea but it's not just about where you live, that's just a little bit of it. We've lived here since it was a new build 23 years ago, and we've never had anything nicked/vandalised, hell we've never even had an egg chucked at the house on Halloween or mischief night.

But, unfortunately, I used to have to go other places, such as Leeds. One incident stands out where I was on the teenage cancer ward, and a guy walked in, late at night, and started trying to nick the TV. When a nurse questioned who he was, he legged it, leaving a TV half covered in a bin bag, and plenty of his fingerprints which a copper dusted.

So, whilst the bit of society where I live is nice, the other bits I have experience of aren't always as nice. I mean, what kind of scumbag would try and steal a TV from a children's cancer ward? St James though is of course right next to Chapletown in Leeds, an area known for housing some of the most unpleasent members of society. There is a cemetary just near St James as well, and once when I was in hospital a story came on the local news about how the police had found a body in there - in 4 bags. Then there was the stabbing in broad daylight in the main entrance, where I'd been 15 minutes previously. And finally of course, the shooting, in broad day light, which was again somewhere I'd been a short while before...


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Dan B
<empty parking space>

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