Very disturbing incident last night.....

Buckley

Buckley

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...went to drop a load of paper for recycling at the paper bank in a car park 3 minutes or so from ours and found a rather disorientated lad of about 20 there, blood streaming from his forehead and bruise coming up around his eye.

Turned out he been walking along, heard voices behind him and as he turned round to see who it was, two blokes just laid into him, one with an iron bar!

He called his mother to come and pick him up and I waited with him, because he was clearly in distress. After a 15 mins, with her having not made it yet from about 5 mins drive away, he called her again to find she hadn't left yet! He called her again 10 mins later and then insisted she was coming, that he was embarassed and wanted me to leave. I did so, reluctantly, because I was worried in case she never showed and he was concussed and got lost or something.

I drove off for a bit and came back ten minutes later to check on him to find his mum there with the police and ambulance.

Two things that disturbed me most:

1) He said the blokes never said a word, never tried to rob him or asked him for anything. Mindless violence for fun?

2) His mum didn't come until he'd called her three times, despite the fact he was crying down the phone that he'd been attacked.
 
poor little mite, how can a mother leave her son to wait like that :? there are some sick w@nkers about to beat someone the way they have.
 
Leese said:
poor little mite, how can a mother leave her son to wait like that :? there are some sick w@nkers about to beat someone the way they have.
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Indeed. Only really occurred to me that it might have been a racist attack. He was Asian and said they were white. But he said they never said anything - people of that mentality surely would of insulted him too?
 
Buckley said:
Indeed. Only really occurred to me that it might have been a racist attack. He was Asian and said they were white. But he said they never said anything - people of that mentality surely would of insulted him too?
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Maybe a racial thing, who knows with these sort of people, what goes through their minds.

Well done you for helping him too.
 
Crikey!

In all honesty, I can understand why the guy would say he heard nothing etc. You know how these things are, if he's in any trouble, it's unlikely from his point of view that you could help him, plus the fact he's already probably shitting himself, and shocked by the whole situation.

Or on the h=other hand, it's maybe some extreme form of "happy-slapping" in which case, it probably wont be their last victim, and they'll get theirs sooner or later, by the police, if they're lucky.

The mum is defo a funny one tho.

Mad shit indeed. A day in the life...
 
A couple of years ago a friend of mine had something similar happen on the way back from clubbing. He was on his own in a cab a couple of minutes ahead of us and when he got to his house, he walked up to his door when two blokes jumped out of a car, grabbed him and cut his face open with a knife. They never said anything and he hadn't seen them before in his life.

We arrived literally two minutes later and had to ask our cab to wait and rushed him off to hospital. He is a really quiet bloke and was only 20 at the time, no enemies, no drug connections, no girl or money trouble. The police said they could only assume it was a case of mistaken identity and my friend now has a 4 inch scar from eye to chin to live with - all for absolutely no reason.

They never caught the people who did it.
 
Random violence is appalling. Good job, Buckley, for not turning a blind eye. Next time, I'd suggest you call an ambulance right away... the kid was obviously in shock.

My brother and I got attacked once for no reason by 4 random guys.... walking home from the store at 3am in our quiet bucolic suburb of Washington where nothing ever happens.

The attackers were 4 inner-city rap-loving white gang member types who'd moved out to our area (attacking 2 well-educated punk black suburban guys... how's that for busting stereotypes!?) Wasn't racial either, but they were pretty wasted on something.

I don't get the rush people get out of violence. Animal it is... really.
 
Last year on one of my very few ventures on to public transport there were 4 lads of about 10 - 13yrs old on the metro and blatently bullying and picking on one of the smaller lads in the group. They took his ticket off him and chucked it onto the metro (tube) rail lines and kept pushing him to go and retrieve it (they're electrified) poor little lad was crying his eyes out - they kept pushing him to the edge of the platform and pretending to push him over (whilst holding on to the back of his jacket) but how dangerous? In the end I sat near them and couldnt hold back any longer and gave them a right fecking mouthful (had just come back from kickboxing and was full of adrenalin). I sat with the young lad on the metro, he told me they were his friends but always did this to him - crying his little eyes out..... I told him I would stay on the metro with him and take him to his front door. I did and when I got there explained to his mum what had happened, she thanked me and as I turned around she belted him round the head and told him off for going with strange women... 8O 8O

I could understand her concern, but under the circumstances......
 
Friend and I got jumped a few years ago by several guys. We were leaving a bar that we hadn't even drank at... just looked around and didn't care for the place, so we left. We were walking across the parking lot and they slammed into our backs. I have no idea who the guys were. They just looked like our stereotypical drunken frat boys. We were all white, so there was nothing racial. They also didn't try to rob us. My friend was damn near unconscious immediately as he was knocked down and hit his head hard on the asphalt. A van pulled up looking for a parking place and one of the attackers tried to talk them into driving away. They called the police instead and the guys took off.

But yeah, as far as I can tell it was just random violence for violence's sake. Sick. I was lucky in that I just got a little bruised up. An ambulance showed up for my friend and decided he didn't really need a ride unless he wanted it. So I took him to the hospital. Concussion. He doesn't remember the attack.
 
His mum not coming may well be down to her being scared to leave the house much. In a lot of Asian families, the mother/older women do not like going out and/or mixing with society/the outside world.

This sort of thing happens all the time now. Good (female) friend of mine got attacked without warning or provocation by a man in a chip shop last week. Broke her nose, ripped her hair out, slashed her face. Just for "fun" He was laughing after and as the police were cuffing him and putting him in the van :roll:

Maybe a happy slapping attack filmed by the guys who gave him a beating? "Look we did some paki-bashing and filmed it" That would make them heroes to a lot of people :roll:

Also.......there may be more to it than the man let on!
 
N8 said:
His mum not coming may well be down to her being scared to leave the house much. In a lot of Asian families, the mother/older women do not like going out and/or mixing with society/the outside world.

This sort of thing happens all the time now. Good (female) friend of mine got attacked without warning or provocation by a man in a chip shop last week. Broke her nose, ripped her hair out, slashed her face. Just for "fun" He was laughing after and as the police were cuffing him and putting him in the van :roll:

Maybe a happy slapping attack filmed by the guys who gave him a beating? "Look we did some paki-bashing and filmed it" That would make them heroes to a lot of people :roll:

Also.......there may be more to it than the man let on!
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I'd be surpised if he had an specific enemies - seem very young for his age, perhaps even a little backward.

His Mum was Greek-Asian, more the former than the latter, so it's wasn't a cultural thing that she wasn't keen on coming out to get him.
 
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