joe H may i just remind you that i go after steamers quite some distance out of and into london and i use the underground alot
if you think im some wimp that would go reporting everyone well think again but dont you think 3 guys in a car would maybe have taken up there trheats and maybe you may not have written that post to say what happened that night think yourself your alive
raynes park / wimbledon has had stabbings andhit and runs and bank robboerys many a time and this isnt a quite little villiage. think it this way im more likly to go missing then you out side my house is the A3 to the south of england think how easy it would be for me to be gone with you they have to negate traffic and **** and by then someone would have thought it strange you being gone or banging on a window
belive it or not im **** scared to walk the streets in wimbledon alone and always will be this place is just like london drugs sex and drink think your self lucky your in a posh area we have snobs on the other side of the track who look down on us
oh well your only a snob who trainspots no big deal if they come after you again because they know your not gonna grass them up
Gentlemen, it is just this kind of childish bickering that has caused this forum to be closed down for the last couple of days! Firstly, we we are dealing with how you should react to a threat to your person or property or both. Secondly, how great is the (perceived) risk of this happening in a specified area.
You are both guilty of reducing two important considerations to a personal level, and by so doing, fail to address the REAL issues. Other members, younger than yourselves (chronologically anyway) are having to grapple with this problem daily, and in such a way that their parents continue to allow them to pursue their hobby unsupervised, if in fact supervision (or armed escorts) were available!
If you have nothing better to say than to deride the circumstances of the other (just because it may be different to your own), then best not say it at all.
I went to school in the east end of London (Whitechapel Road), and in my teens drank in pubs (like the Blind Beggar) there with some of the most notorious gangs of the time.
This did not stop some 16 year old IC3 male approach me a couple of months ago, demand a cigarette from me, and when I refused (and in broad daylight at 2 p.m. on a sunny Sunday afternoon), threatened me with a knife if I did not give him both my cigarette AND my mobile phone when I dialled 999.
He was, to say the least, surprised when I stepped towards him and threatened to rip his head off and **** down his neck! He departed rapidly, and when the police arrived, they (rightly) said my actions were confrontational. It did on this occasion work for me, but there are no guarantees. My reaction was one of anger rather than considered response.
I spent nearly an hour touring the area in the police car, but the little scroat had gone to ground.
The moral is that there is no right or wrong way to react, what I said and did could have had serious repercussions (for me or for him) had he not run off. Only the intended victim can assess this at the time.
Obviously, certain areas should and can be avoided, a group of people CAN give added security, but as in my case, the whole thing came out of the blue.
To criticise others and then get into a general slanging match is therefore totally unhelpful and counter productive.
so it was assumed you wanted to do your own thing. sorry...
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