Mark330d
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Spotted this on another forum i use and found it quite funny.
The original article:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1083317.0.cops_in_xmas_blitz_on_citys_rail_vandals.php
The responce by a well respected Columist from the same paper.
(Copyright (c) 2006 Newsquest Media Group)
SIT down, tuck into the turkey on Christmas Day and spare a thought for the less fortunate.
Like those hardy British Transport Police officers who will be scouring Glasgow's rail network for gangs of hardened criminals.
As you sit warm and cosy, they'll be tracking down some of the toughest nuts in the city.
I mean, just read what Detective Superintendent Ashley Croft has to say . . . and tremble: "If someone hits you with a baseball bat, you don't start considering the quality of their swing.
"They are taking a baseball bat to society."
And what termites are in DS Croft's sights?
Well it's not the perverts who got away with more than 30 rapes across the UK rail network during 2004/5, nearly 70-per cent of the total, or the brutes responsible for the 12,000-plus unsolved violent crimes in the same period.
Don't be discouraged, you can have one last go: try the 700 or so racists and religious bigots who escaped justice to wander the rail network and abuse at will.
Forget it. The men and women of the BTP, a force whose efficiency ratings struggle to reach 'fair' and often as not - according to HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary's report of February this year - languishes at 'poor' have a bigger beast in their sights.
Graffiti artists. Now without wanting to minimise the threat to decency, urban decay and the future of native British art, there is one significant difference between wielding a can of spray paint in anger and wielding a baseball bat.
People don't die of graffiti assault.
Oh, the painters might plummet to serious injury and worse from a misjudged step off a bridge parapet or suffer the consequences of several thousand volts but the worst innocent bystanders are likely to suffer is an optical attack on good taste and some bad grammar and atrocious spelling.
They might even be lifted in massive high-profile swoops such as the 10 arrested in the West of Scotland yesterday.
Mr Croft, though, is not a man to let a sense of perspective get in the way of solid policing: "Graffiti is often serious, organised crime and it has been increasing."
Well, far be it from the likes of me to disagree, but I was under the impression that serious organised crime was things like drugs and loan-sharking. Money laundering and protection rackets. Hitmen and gun-totin' gangsters.
OF COURSE it would be churlish to suggest an ulterior motive for mounting a huge operation to patrol the lines at Hillington, Braehead, Tradeston, Charing Cross and the furnace-like hotspot of the Partick Interchange.
Decent overtime on the ultimate public holiday could never be substitute for a day spent with the family.
Nor would it be right to question the wisdom of announcing the anti-graffiti drive ahead of time, thereby reducing the chances of actually catching the vandals in the act.
But do 31 splodges painted across the entire UK last Christmas Day - a whole handful of which were in Glasgow - justify the sheer cost, effort and manpower.
Answers in 6ft high multicoloured letters to Det Supt Croft.
Waste of recources imo. I know alot of graffiti artists and most of the are fairly sly and never seem to get caught. And since when was it serious organised crime? bollox imo
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Whittie
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Oh, the painters might plummet to serious injury and worse from a misjudged step off a bridge parapet or suffer the consequences of several thousand volts but the worst innocent bystanders are likely to suffer is an optical attack on good taste and some bad grammar and atrocious spelling.
So true.
If the law was to "stamp down" on graffiti then, i think that they should stop selling it to under 21's.
Would solve so many problems.
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Mark330d
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that woudlnt stop the problem, many of the orders are placed over the internet, And the most notorious ones are over 21
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Whittie
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It would stop the shitty kiddy ones "Bazz was ere' stoned"
I think that they should do an age check on the card they are paying with online. Would be a good idea IMO.
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Teknologikal
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Graf is an art form and I have mates that arrange walls legally to show off their work. It's just a classic case of a few tossers ruining it for everyone.
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