In the bit of England I live in (rural areas only 6km away) a goat (or any other large potentially edible animal) wandering loose so near Christmas might not have fared so well; in the adjacent county (Norfolk) 1 500 live geese got robbed last week!
Similar fights happens on the buses, roads and streets in places like Norfolk and Lincolnshire all the time nowadays (there are more privacy laws in UK/Europe so people rarely put them on youtube or the cops will get their details straight from Google and visit them and quiz them about any involvement in the dispute).
To be fair its not so bad where I live or even in London (apart from violence amongst teenage hoodrats who try to act American) because there is so much CCTV and increased neighbourhood policing so trouble is stopped before it escalates too much.
Buses here are full of GPS trackers and automatic alarms that go straight to Police control room and Council CCTV schemes. TBH this is the same across all of Europe and (helped by the smaller geographic size) is even a factor in where the funny animal videos come from – this week I saw traffic cops in North England rescue an owl (which turned up on an ANPR camera) and in NL they redirected (with the help of a rescue home) a stranded seal!
To get to work I have to cycle through the ‘hood (a very multicultural area called Norwich Road) – just after Brexit there was literally three police cars n the streets at all times especially around school closing time and other flashpoint areas, and one of these was an armed response unit (as these have to be shared with Norfolk they are less commonly seen). To be fair it did the job as there has been little trouble; in poorer areas where they can’t afford the patrols folk have got hurt.
