Why are there so many nasty people?

[kayzee]

Just got thinking about this recently. Unfortunately I suffered an attack myself last new years and ended up in A&E with a broken nose (3 people on 1, totally unprovoked)

Since then I haven't returned to the place where it happened, and it's definitely affected me psychologically as well as physically.

Now on halloween me and some friends got started on for no reason whilst waiting for a taxi, tried jacking my mates camera and money... this one guy was a total nutter and was telling us how pleasantly he's going to stab me. Eventually it seems to calm down but then another bloke tries jumping in our cab and we politely tell him it's full and he starts calling us all kinds of names and smacking the cab!

And now the other day reading about Genie1, obviously a million times worse I'm not trying to compare to what happened to that poor guy.

I just can't understand the mentality of these people!? Can't believe they've got a lovely old granny to hug, or a a pet to stroke. Is it drugs that make people this angry?

[weetsie]

this is why i carry a knife

[GATESHEAD MOB]

Originally Posted by weetsie

this is why i carry a knife

you serious?

[weetsie]

yes

[GATESHEAD MOB]

Would you use it?

[weetsie]

yes

who is anyone to threaten my life for no good reason?

i would rather serve time for man slaughter than lose my sight or something similar.

[GATESHEAD MOB]

So your comfortable with the fact that you could be arrested and get yourself a criminal record through something that may never happen to you

[weetsie]

the knife is under 3" so its legal.

don't get me wrong, i wouldn't stab someone unless they were seriously threatening my health, if a mugger told me to hand over my wallet i would but if he then attacked me regardless i would stab him.

[jp_bl_68]

You're not worried that he'd take it away from you and then you'd be the one getting stabbed?

[anwarsadat]

Originally Posted by weetsie

the knife is under 3" so its legal.

don't get me wrong, i wouldn't stab someone unless they were seriously threatening my health, if a mugger told me to hand over my wallet i would but if he then attacked me regardless i would stab him.

You silly little sod.

Do you think you know what it is like to kill someone at close quarters.

I beg you to throw that knife away.

Trust me such is the way of things, it would be you who went to prison, not any aggressor.

Please ditch the knife.

[Fozzybear]

Originally Posted by weetsie

the knife is under 3" so its legal.

don't get me wrong, i wouldn't stab someone unless they were seriously threatening my health, if a mugger told me to hand over my wallet i would but if he then attacked me regardless i would stab him.

Great, so you carry a knife and people wanting to mug decide that since people are carrying knives it's best to cut you up first before you get a chance to use it. Meanwhile other people trying to get on with their lives find that rather than being mugged (which is bad enough!) they are much more likely to get VERY seriously injured or killed because of idiots who think like you.

...thanks for that.

What we really really need in a society where binge drinking and casual violence is becoming the norm is for people to carry WEAPONS!

[Alan CD]

Hi Teetsie

Anwarsadat is quite right.

If you were attacked by a mugger and you pulled your 3" knife and stabbed him you could end up in prison. Also, your attacker could sue you for damages after you are found guilty!

Criminal record - loose job and many doors are closed.

[Tom`]

If I was being attacked and my health or that of others was in danger, I would rather have a 3" blade to defend myself than nothing

[weetsie]

like i said, better to serve a few years in prison than to be brain damaged, lose your sight or even your life.

Do you think you know what it is like to kill someone at close quarters.

dont need to.

You're not worried that he'd take it away from you and then you'd be the one getting stabbed?

if you are there leading with the knife loosely in your hands its possible but obviously i wouldn't do that so the chance of someone taking a knife off me is nill.

[SyStemDeMoN]

I see your point weetsie, but you are forgetting that people are usually out numbered when attacked. Your Knife will do nothing against more than one person, apart from annoy your attackers into thinking they might as well use it on you.

I emplore everyone to take a few self defence lessons. It may save your life, and you don't need years of training to be able to make a smack head think twice about mugging you after you have landed a punch of kick on them and you look confident and like you know what your doing.

Just take up a martial art of some kind for a few weeks over the winter period. Its a lot more fun than going to a gym and you stay just as fit.

Most attackers / muggers are looking for an easy target. Don't become one.