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Is It Safe To Travel By Bus In Broad Daylight, Number 2?

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anotheoldgit | 12:07 Thu 07th Mar 2013 | News
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Back in December 2012, I posted the following thread.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1194941.html

Apparently another horrific murder took place on a bus this morning, and once again in broad daylight.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9914704/Schoolgirl-16-stabbed-to-death-on-rush-hour-bus-in-Birmingham.html
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No...hang on.

That should be 'specific criterium'.

...I think.
criterion

:-)
AOG

So you didn't know the suspect was black eh?

That's odd, seeing as you posted a link to the Telegraph story at 12:07, and when I look at the timestamp on the Telegraph page, I can see that it was last updated at 10:37am and it clearly describes the suspect as being black.

That noisy screeching sound is you being hoisted by your own petards.

(What are petards anyway???)
sp, what i don't understand about the story you linked to is how the woman who has schizophrenia was out of hospital or prison, she killed her own mother a few years ago, and was allowed to roam about killing this poor woman and almost killing a third. she telephoned the police to say she was a danger and would hurt or kill someone, why did no one take any notice...

A petard, from a seventeenth century manuscript of military designs.
A 19th-century British army petard

A petard was a small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. The term has a French origin and dates back to the sixteenth century.[1] A typical configuration was either a conical or rectangular metal object containing 2-3 kg (5 or 6 pounds) of gunpowder, activated with a slow match used as a fuse.
correct em

i.e. blown up by your own bomb
wiki comes in handy sometimes...
yes it does ... :-)
>>>and it now looks as if the suspect is black

Living near Birmingham, as soon as I heard news of the murder on the radio I thought this was likely to be the case.

Not uncommon.
quite mixed...

According to the latest ethnic group estimates published by the Office for National Statistics, the non-white population numbered around 329 thousand, a third of the population of Birmingham.

Pakistani was the largest minority group in Birmingham, followed by Indian and Black Caribbean. Since 2008, other White has replaced Bangladeshis as the 4th largest minority group. The remaining minority groups each accounted for 2% or less individually, but together accounted for a further 12% of the population. You can read more in the Ethnicity in Birmingham briefing. See also detailed EXCEL tables for 2009 ethnic groups below. The EXCEL workbook also includes a population tool, which allows you to select ethnic groups and compare then on a chart.
em10

Re: 'petard'.

Thank you. For some reason, I imagined petards to be like braces.

I will leave this thread for a while now, so others may discuss this story seriously. I have a habit of derailing things.
/Living near Birmingham...Not uncommon. /

Not particularly frequent either

2011/12 number of homicides with sharp instrument in UK = 200
(down from 235 previous year)

West Midlands has 7% of UK 'knife offences'
em10

Oh, forgot to say - yes...re the schizophrenic woman. Absolutely doesn't make any sense. And sadly, I doubt very much that this will be the last case.

Right...I'm off to practice my guitar. Only a couple of chords away from being able to join Status Quo.
i have used the reference myself, as in Chris Huhne, hoist by his own petard, has a certain ring to it, don't you think...
do you work in KX?
em10

Yes, I do.
em10

And if you do - be VERY wary of people hanging around the three cashpoints on Pentonville Road.

We've been warned in our office.
AOG

Any idea how you managed to miss the story I linked to?

I'm genuinely interested, because it ties in with the two stories you posted about.

Is there a missing element in the story I linked to?
sp, know the area, it was worse years ago, believe me....
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AOG

/// How did you manage to miss the story I linked to? ///

/// Did it not meet any specific criteria? ///

I also must have missed a multitude of other stories, that perhaps you would also get offended over, but hey they are now getting all too frequent that one cannot possibly keep up.

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