Baby P's Killers' Identity Legally Disclosed

[MrToast]

I know what you mean - Maybe, as the Mail article says, it's just that the 80% don't know what to do, their brain goes into a loop, and they either freeze or irrationally go about their normal business.

Even having a vague idea about what you would do in such a situation would help to snap you out of inaction - sounds like the book you mention addressed this.

I'm not, btw, suggesting anyone who doesn't know what they're doing wade into a situation such as you describe above. But there are other things you can do.

I'd recommend it. See if you can hunt down a second hand copy. Make sure that Mrs RH reads it too.

[Sundial]

I know what you mean - Maybe, as the Mail article says, it's just that the 80% don't know what to do, their brain goes into a loop, and they either freeze or irrationally go about their normal business.

Even having a vague idea about what you would do in such a situation would help to snap you out of inaction - sounds like the book you mention addressed this.

I'm not, btw, suggesting anyone who doesn't know what they're doing wade into a situation such as you describe above. But there are other things you can do.

IT'S A SOCIETAL SYNDROME!!! It has happened ad nauseum!

*collapses weeping, we women cry yanno*

Actually the one thing I could cry about is that I used to know the name for the syndrome, it does exist, but for the life of me I can't remember it now.

If anyone can come up with it I promise you my new born, or at least my cat (or at least a pic of her. Which is reward enough, honest, she's a cutie!)

[Zippy]

There is something we can all do without getting punched or knifed - hang around, observe and be witnesses. Not very macho but it all helps.

btw Sundial and I were prob slightly safer wading in than a man would be - we are less likely to get a real kicking. Not guaranteed obviously ...

[Sundial]

There is something we can all do without getting punched or knifed - hang around, observe and be witnesses. Not very macho but it all helps.

btw Sundial and I were prob slightly safer wading in than a man would be - we are less likely to get a real kicking. Not guaranteed obviously ...

Oh god, tell me about it - I am a very small blonde and it really surprised me when I got hit at the bus stop that time, albeit a misdirected punch (but really couldn't have stood by and watched this guy hit another. I HAD to jump on top of him, so to speak).

It's different now as I don't stay out late, but I assume my boyf and I would be enough combined force to hold back something! Way to go Zip!

[OwlHoot]

I think the main reason, if not the only one, they released this information officially is to gloat on the fact that one of the critters was involved at some point with the BNP, to try and discredit it.

The Government are scared witless and aghast at the steady gains the BNP are making (entirely as a result of Labour policies).

[Sundial]

I think the main reason, if not the only one, they released this information officially is to gloat on the fact that one of the critters was involved at some point with the BNP, to try and discredit it.

The Government are scared witless and aghast at the steady gains the BNP are making (entirely as a result of Labour policies).

I don't think that the BNP was the main emphasis in the reporting, though - they mentioned Nazis but it was obvious enough that the men were right off the bat (/slang)

[expat]

Is it cruel to blast cats with water soakers when they are c**ping all over my garden? Is it a slippery slope to becoming Hannibal Lecter?

No. Out of kindness you are blasting the vermin with water rather than lead. It is less reliable but kinder. How sweet.

[RichardCranium]

Interesting.

In the thread about some MP's car getting trashed, the overwhelming response was "violence is ALWAYS bad".

A a thread about a baby being cruelly killed, torturing the killers to death - or at least execution - is the overwhelming response.


So which is it? Violence is always bad or violence is OK when I feel like it?

[ThomasSoerensen]

IT'S A SOCIETAL SYNDROME!!! It has happened ad nauseum!

*collapses weeping, we women cry yanno*

Actually the one thing I could cry about is that I used to know the name for the syndrome, it does exist, but for the life of me I can't remember it now.

If anyone can come up with it I promise you my new born, or at least my cat (or at least a pic of her. Which is reward enough, honest, she's a cutie!)

In a book I have in my briefcase under my desk there is a lengthy description of it. Along with its origins in a stabbing murder in broad daylight in New York in the 70'?

ShouldI have a quick glance and tell you the name of the syndrome?

[NotAllThere]

Kitty Genovese Syndrome