Russia

[steve threlfall]

Speaking from experience, are we?

[Saracen]

...... even it it's a bloke who is raped by a woman.

It would have been a different story if the genders were reversed though wouldn't it?

Well, maybe, in one sense.

But, I'd also point out that it's allegedly raped by a woman. Just as not all "rapes" reported by women actually were, and sometimes (though sadly far too rarely) circumstances suggest it might not have been at all. There's enough in that story, assuming it's a complete, fair and accurate bit of reporting of the known facts, that cast doubt on whether rape is a fair characterisation of events. Maybe it is, maybe not.

Of course, I'd also point out I was smirking at the Reg's phraseology, not at actual events. And I don't believe for a nanosecond that the Reg writing style was a coincidence.

However, ....... I suppose, to an extent, I also find the actual facts funny. The extent is this .... the robber targets a hairdressing salon ...... and picks one run by a karate expert. Now the irony in that that, I find funny, if not hilarious. Just like the bloke that tried to rob a shop a friend of mine owns, by smashing the window with a hammer (in the middle of the night). The hammer bounced off the perspex (not glass) sheet, and knocked the would-be robber out cold. He woke up in hospital, with concussion, handcuffed (by the police, who found him outside the shop, in a pool of blood) to the bed. Hey .... handcuffs again. I don't think they were the frilly pink kind that time, though.

Or, for that matter, the incident of the four louts that picked on a bloke having a drink at a pub I was in, many years ago. They picked him out as a bloke on his own, pushed him around a bit, called him a few choice names, deliberately tried to start a fight and wouldn't let him walk away. Then one of them swung a punch. Well, the "bloke" they picked on turned out to be a martial arts instructor at several of the Uni's martial arts club, and of International standard at a couple of them. He knocked the proverbial out of them, and put a couple in hospital. Did anyone have any sympathy for the louts that had obviously been looking for a fight? Not a lot, no ..... but an awful lot of laughing occurred, and even the attending police officers were clearly having a very hard time maintaining a dignified decorum, and I wouldn't mind betting there were tears of laughter later, back in the canteen. The "louts" were, it seems, well known to them, and received exactly what I gathered most of the officers felt they deserved, but they weren't allowed to give them. I'm sure I heard a few muttered "poetic justice" remarks.

Which brings me neatly back to what happened to this "stick up merchant".

Do I feel any sympathy for what happened to him, even if it was true? Nope, not a bit. Nor do I feel the slightest hint of sympathy for either the bloke with the hammer-shaped dent in his noggin or even for Brendan Fearon for getting shot by Tony Martin. That is NOT to say I support what was done to them, but that I don't have any sympathy for them. Not a whisker.

It's simple ... if you choose to exercise violence against others, and in my book, burglary is violence against others even if usually not physically against the home owner, then you get NO sympathy from me, WHATEVER you suffer as a result. If you pick a fight, and then get the wotsit well and truly kicked out of you, well, maybe the lesson is don't pick fights. Ditto, don't burgle people,and don't try armed robbery ..... especially in a hairdressing salon.

[chuckskull]

In soviet russia... oh nevermind.

[pollaxe]

Reading that (thankfully) just left me wondering why a raccoon was out drinking with a bunch of friends.


The slapper.

[shadowmaster]

the raccoon was acting all slutty just prior to the assault

Only in Russia

[CaseyV9]

Another case of someone targeting someone they saw as weaker or vulnrable. Chavs like this target people on this forum. The one in Russia got a taste of his own medicine. Hilairious