Who's taken a beating?

[HRH]

Had a few rucks over the years, The nearest I came to a 'beating' was when I was jumped at a house party when I was 20 by two older blokes I was lead outside and one of them threw a butt and broke my nose, I turned round and starting throwing bows at them, didn't really land much, then my cousins came out and one of them was put in a coma and did a 2 stretch for it-LOL!

[Bagpuss]

I've had a few bad beatings in my life - all while living in the North of the UK! One off three blokes who i shared a house with. I fell on hard times for a few weeks and ended up living with three blokes who had all just got out of jail. They turned on yours truly after a falling out and gave me a right royal beating, breaking my nose in my own bedroom! Months later I got smacked in ther face by a little bloke in manchester in a nightclub. He also broke my nose! I also got knocked on my arse by a lesbian in a gay club in newcastle after i was dancing with her girl a little too long. All over 10 years ago but remember them like it was yesterday!

OK hands up who made this one up?

I especially liked the bit about the man in Manchester with a shell suit and Moustache, if you had said Liverpool it might have been believable.

PS playing along: the two most violent places I have visited in recent times were Bournemouth and Liverpool, with the former the most violent

[bogeyman]

PS playing along: the two most violent places I have visited in recent times were Bournemouth and Liverpool, with the former the most violent

Well, large seaside resort town have always had a dark undercurrent of crime and violence (q.v. Brighton Rock).

Never had any problems in Liverpool. There are loads of stupid, drunken, shouty people of course - but that's universal.

I'd say Leeds was the most 'casually violent' place I'd ever been.

[Bagpuss]

Well, large seaside resort town have always had a dark undercurrent of crime and violence (q.v. Brighton Rock).

Never had any problems in Liverpool. There are loads of stupid, drunken, shouty people of course - but that's universal.

I'd say Leeds was the most 'casually violent' place I'd ever been.

Leeds is a good shout, but, I went on nights out in both Liverpool and Bournemouth last year. In Liverpool an ambulance was casually driving along a main stretch of bars picking up casualties, on the street corner of the same road 3 guys set on some pour chap resulting in him hittinf his head on the pavement and getting knocked out.

In Bournemouth I saw several pub fights and a 30 people plus street brawl.

[aussielong]

OK hands up who made this one up?

I especially liked the bit about the man in Manchester with a shell suit and Moustache, if you had said Liverpool it might have been believable.

PS playing along: the two most violent places I have visited in recent times were Bournemouth and Liverpool, with the former the most violent

i'm afraid i'm not a troll. i thought people might have a few stories to share but i was perhaps wrong. the beatings all happened in my late teens and early 20's. if you spend time in pubs and clubs around the UK, you'll see this age group is volatile. the policy seemed to be get stuck in and ask questions later. this is all stuff that happened to me personally. i've seen worse happened to others. i was in a house party once that got stormed by local scallies. they kicked the front door in, came in and beat one bloke up in the front room. i've also been in a room where a punishment was given out for stealing of some money on a prior occasion - the lad was pinned down, his sock was pulled down and his ankle slashed with a stanley knife. this was a young blokes life in the lower middle class suburbs of the UK in the early 90's.

[threaded]

Young-men on young-men violence is quite endemic, it is really bad in Denmark with several murders lately. From what I've seen of these types it is some sort of power / sex substitute, and the ring leaders, if not put away for these offences, eventually graduate into rapists and child molesters. So it is really important, for other peoples safety, that if you witness anything like this that you report it to the police, before they attack some innocent victim.

[BrilloPad]

So it is really important, for other peoples safety, that if you witness anything like this that you report it to the police, before they attack some innocent victim.

I would like to think I would report nothing and just walk on by. Alas I have too strong morals - which is a pity. My adsvice to anyone is walk on by.

These days the law seems to be on the side of the offender.

I still think Tony Martin should be given a knighthood for services to society - I don't care he shot the guy in the back. Once you burgle somone's place you have very few rights - ceretainly not as many as the poor homeowner you terrorize.

[EternalOptimist]

I lived in Bootle, merseyside till I was mid thirties, and a night without at least one punch up in the street was unusual. I have been living in a rough part of Manchester(so they claim) for eight years and I have seen precisely three barnies in my area plus one in the city centre. Liverpool is by far the most violent place I have ever seen

Having said that, I think threaded is correct, young male aggression is everywhere, you got to walk quietly but carry a big stick.

[HRH]

I lived in Bootle, merseyside till I was mid thirties, and a night without at least one punch up in the street was unusual. I have been living in a rough part of Manchester(so they claim) for eight years and I have seen precisely three barnies in my area plus one in the city centre. Liverpool is by far the most violent place I have ever seen

Having said that, I think threaded is correct, young male aggression is everywhere, you got to walk quietly but carry a big stick.

Where in Manchester?

[snaw]

Strangely enough the safest places I've are the ones with a reputation for being dangerous. New York I was there 4 years and didn't see, or know anyone who was a victim of any sort of crime. It's an incredibly safe city (Well Manhattan anyway) in the main.

Same for London, haven't seen too much casual violence - know some people who've been burgled but nothing major. Whereas saw a fair bit around the rest of the UK, and in Australia.

Maybe I just hang around in the wrong areas.