An 11-month-old baby was treated in hospital after being punched in the face by a youth in a Teesside street.
Yasmin Ali was walking with her baby, Sarah, in a pushchair along Borough Road, Middlesbrough, on Wednesday night when they were approached by a youth.
The youth, who appeared to be drunk or under the influence of drugs, tried to snatch the baby from the pushchair and then punched her twice in the face.
He is described as white, aged 14 to 16, 5ft 7in, thin, with slight stubble and was wearing a grey Adidas tracksuit with white stripes down the sleeves.
Det Con Sonja Whittingham, from Cleveland Police, said: “For some unknown reason he decided he wanted the baby and said it was his baby.
And then another item also today…
Alcohol may soon be sold around the clock at supermarkets under the changes to the UK’s licensing laws which come into force in November.
The big three supermarkets - Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s - have applied for 24-hour licences at a combined total of 435 outlets.
These must be the “freedoms” those pesky “terrorists” like the anti-war people hate so much, right?
This is just the latest, but hopefully, the nadir of what drink and drugs does to people, and what people in this country do when they have drink and drugs. Seemingly reasonable people actually think binge drinking is fun. They should see themselves. If people called binge drinkers “addicts” and “alcoholics”, their proper names, we might be able to start dealing with the problem. What I don’t understand is why this culture is unique to this country. The French certainly don’t feel the need to drink themselves to death. Maybe it’s the weather. It’s been so crap even I’ve thought about getting plastered to get away from it. Perhaps I should just go to France for a weekend. It’d probably piss down there too.
Anyway, this boy, they should catch him and deport him. They should also deport that fucking cunt with his 99 mates who Mr. MangoWala pointed out had beaten up a couple of Pakistani lads. They must have felt as brave as a suicide bomber. Shame those 99 didn’t kill themselves…
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sau 08.25.05 at 10:30 pm
Hello Shahid.
Sorry this isn`t a cheery link. Disturbing and absolutley fucking disgusting. Make sure you read the first link within the article for background (links to a blog by someone named Helena Cobban). I can`t warn you enough, if you look around the forum that she writes about you`ll find some shocking images and statements. Apparently, they are from U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just when I thought I`d seen it all.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2315
PostmansKnock 08.26.05 at 3:43 am
Read yer 1984 Shahid … they used cheap gin to keep the proles in submission.
Shahid 08.26.05 at 8:09 am
Dear sau - many thanks - I have been working on an Abu Ghraib post, been collating a lot of information - and I’m sure your link will give me the missing ingredients. Many thanks.
Dear postmansknock - I am very familiar with my 1984, but curiously, I had completely forgotten this point. Thanks for the reminder. I must read it again. (Sad to say, it is the only book I ever asked my ex to read. Suffice to say, she didn’t.)
the olive ream 08.26.05 at 2:46 pm
It is getting harder and harder trying to keep one’s cool reading stories like this.
This is beyond stupidity, hatred and cowardice. These boys should be hung by the larger of their two testicles outside scotland yard for the viewing pleasure of the chief of police and the general public.