Who's taken a beating?

[EternalOptimist]

Where in Manchester?

walkden west machester, aka 'pusseyville'

[sasguru]

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.

No problems that I've seen in London. And in the past I did quite often stagger back from the pub in quite rough areas. Saw quite a bit up north when I lived there though. It's them northern monkeys.

[cojak]

I got mugged in London, in broad daylight. By a girl.

I had the sharpest teeth though....

[EternalOptimist]

I got mugged in London, in broad daylight. By a girl.

I had the sharpest teeth though....

good girl

did she get away with anything ?

[darmstadt]

Had a bit of a ding dong a few weeks back in the pub. There was this big Yank ex-GI who was mouthing off and annoying everyone so I told him a few home truths which meant he grabbed me from behind and lifted me up around the neck thus causing me to be throttled. As started to go a bit woozy and panic I stuck my lighted fag in his eye. That stopped him quick enough. Had quite a few ding dongs when living in Brentwood, the best was when the Hells Angels came to the pub to sort another bike club from Hertfordshire. All hell broke loose around the town with the funniest bit being 4 HAs jumping up and down on top of a car believing it to belong to the other guys. Pretty flattened after that. The pub I used to drink in was sometime pretty rough:

- sitting next to a mate who kept stating that the bloke the other side of the pub was an ugly munter. My mate went round to the other side and this bloke followed him. The next thing was we found him lying down and people thought he was having a little kip but had in fact bee stabbed in the stomach

- sitting at a table having a few beers and this bloke comes in and starts asking for the 30 quid owed to him for a car. Friend next to me says he ahsn't got it at the moment but will pay leter. Guy pulls out a Stanley knife and cuts his throat (not badly though)

Many more like that....

[Torran]

Funnily enough the least trouble I have ever had was in Glasgow. Spent 4 years in the east end and never had any bother. Witnessed some gang violence however

Took a right good kicking a few years ago in Edinburgh. I was too drunk to fight back and had no back up. Spent 7 days in hospital after that

I can look after myself in general and am relatively streetwise so i tend to manage to avoid the potential situations.

[aussielong]

Had a bit of a ding dong a few weeks back in the pub. There was this big Yank ex-GI who was mouthing off and annoying everyone so I told him a few home truths which meant he grabbed me from behind and lifted me up around the neck thus causing me to be throttled. As started to go a bit woozy and panic I stuck my lighted fag in his eye. That stopped him quick enough. Had quite a few ding dongs when living in Brentwood, the best was when the Hells Angels came to the pub to sort another bike club from Hertfordshire. All hell broke loose around the town with the funniest bit being 4 HAs jumping up and down on top of a car believing it to belong to the other guys. Pretty flattened after that. The pub I used to drink in was sometime pretty rough:

- sitting next to a mate who kept stating that the bloke the other side of the pub was an ugly munter. My mate went round to the other side and this bloke followed him. The next thing was we found him lying down and people thought he was having a little kip but had in fact bee stabbed in the stomach

- sitting at a table having a few beers and this bloke comes in and starts asking for the 30 quid owed to him for a car. Friend next to me says he ahsn't got it at the moment but will pay leter. Guy pulls out a Stanley knife and cuts his throat (not badly though)

Many more like that....

I thought they had banned smoking in pubs in the UK

[HRH]

walkden west machester, aka 'pusseyville'

My mate runs a pub there. The ellsmere.

[aussielong]

Funnily enough the least trouble I have ever had was in Glasgow. Spent 4 years in the east end and never had any bother. Witnessed some gang violence however

Took a right good kicking a few years ago in Edinburgh. I was too drunk to fight back and had no back up. Spent 7 days in hospital after that

I can look after myself in general and am relatively streetwise so i tend to manage to avoid the potential situations.

In Newcastle, I was in a night club hanging round the edge of the dancefloor shuffling my feet and a small Geordie came and stood next to me. Next thing I know he smacked me in the nose and I was flat on my back. I had to have part of my septum removed after that because they couldn't get it to go back into the middle. Totally unprovoked. My mate reckons he was jealous of my good looks

[Moscow Mule]

I thought they had banned smoking in pubs in the UK

Do keep up, darmstadt lives on the mainland.