literally another aussie in london

stab stab and repatriation

The other day a 14-year-old kid was stabbed in my street at 10pm.

I was home, and it happened about a 30 second walk from my place, but I didn’t even know it had occurred.

It wasn’t until the police came knocking on my door for information that I was aware anything had happened.

And the way the cop spoke I thought it was a traffic accident.

It was more a bunch of kids repeatedly stabbing another kid.

The kid survived, which proves if nothing else that kids are useless at everything.

There are signs and promotions everywhere for kids to stop with the stab stab business.

But most of them are crap.

I can’t imagine the average kid seeing a billboard saying “no more knives”, and thinking wow, I cannot believe I have been carrying a knife around, I am in idiot, innit (that is what the kids say).

All this comes on the back of me receiving money from the kid that robbed me through the courts.

I wonder about a criminal system where people found guilty for stealing have to pay the people back for the stealing.

Where do they suddenly get this money from? Stealing from someone else?

Seems like a joke to me. I was going to knock back the money, but then I found out the government gets the money, so fuck that.

Only two criminal acts in my street (that I am aware of) in the last year is not too bad.

In Melbourne my next-door neighbours once robbed me.

August 7, 2009 - Posted by Jrod | living in london | crime, stab stab