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Topic ID 666
15/05/2005 by JohnSmith
What the hell is happening?
Yesterday a group of 20 15-18 year olds came into Hertford from Finsbury Park, after a few hours shoplifting they made their way up to Sele Farm and robbed a number of kids of their mobile phones and money and, more seriously, assaulted a number of them.
The police didn't seem to have any idea of any of this until the youths decided they'd had enough and gone to Hertford North to catch a train home.
Eventually the police caught up with them at Hertford North but admitted they didn't have a clue what to do with such a large number of offenders as they didn't have space at Hertford police station to deal with them and those that had to give statements.
It turns out that a similar sized group of youths turned up at Ware a few weeks ago.
As much as I don't want it to turn out, are we going to end up with vigilante groups waiting at the train stations for these undesirables to turn up and sort them out?
I'm not a violent man but what happened yesterday has made me want to go out and buy a basball bat...
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Reply ID 6825
15/05/2005 by smileyoriley
words evade me
Reply ID 6827
15/05/2005 by JohnSmith
If it wasn't my best mate who told me I wouldn't have believed it myself.
Reply ID 6829
15/05/2005 by Ewoowar
The best way to tackle this is with your/our newly elected/re-elected. Baseball bats realy don't get anywhere except an escalation which, let's face it, we will do us no favours at all.
If the police were ineffective then write and email to whoever is in charge of the local police. What is the most senior local rank?
Write and email to the local councillors and to Mr Prisk. If they got away with it this time it will happen again.
Reply ID 6837
16/05/2005 by del
I maybe running for local election next year,the top of the agender will be culling[;)]
Reply ID 6838
16/05/2005 by carlos fandango
Why would they go from the town centre to Sele? This doesn't seem too logical unless there was something pre-arranged or local knowledge. I assume this is why the ticket office at HN was closed this morning.
Reply ID 6843
16/05/2005 by Victor Meldrew
If it continues and the police do not do anything about it, you will get groups of older brothers and fathers waiting to meet these gangs to give them a good hiding.
Reply ID 6848
16/05/2005 by Ewoowar
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Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
If it continues and the police do not do anything about it, you will get groups of older brothers and fathers waiting to meet these gangs to give them a good hiding.
And how would they know when the gangs were arriving?
I too think it is odd that they made their way to Sele Farm.
Reply ID 6853
16/05/2005 by Steve
My information is that two vanloads of youths were taken away from Hertford North at about 7:30pm.
More information when I get it so that we can deal with facts rather than rumour!
Reply ID 6858
16/05/2005 by Victor Meldrew
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Originally posted by Ewoowar
quote:
Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
If it continues and the police do not do anything about it, you will get groups of older brothers and fathers waiting to meet these gangs to give them a good hiding.
And how would they know when the gangs were arriving?
I too think it is odd that they made their way to Sele Farm.
Good question.
May I suggest a old fashioned steak out possibly located in the front bar of the "Bridge House"
That way they would be able to enjoy themselves (have a steak in, on a steak out)whilst waiting to send these ruffians packing.
But seriously, people will get fed up with them and it would only take a few mobile telephone calls to alert people when they hit dodge city! What would be next orgainised gang fight on Hartham common. It would be like something out of Gangs of New York!
Reply ID 6919
17/05/2005 by carlos fandango
Why strange? Anyone remember the "steaming" that used to occur on trains going through that area?
Reply ID 6920
17/05/2005 by Ewoowar
I think GillP means that it is strange for someone from WGC to be amongst the group from Hackney.
Reply ID 6923
17/05/2005 by carlos fandango
Ohhh. Still I have to say the Police have excelled themselves with the number of arrests they've made. 3 bad cases...loads of arrests. Not bad...is it?
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