Party Vibe

if im honest,

when i lived up north i was mates with a lot of people who are now in prison for shootings, stabbings and drugs etc …

these lads (who are conquering the media at the moment) are bored, out on the streets with nothing to do. I know that this is the reason because it was what drove me to be part of such gangs when growing up close to liverpool.

its saturday night, your under 18, nothing to do and you and all your mates are hovering round the local shops. its what happens, i believe there is nothing you can do to tackle this knife crime, of course our country will higher the punishment for carrying a knife but will it work … no!

this is the way britains culture is now, with music and games being more violent than ever is it any wonder?

when i was growing up in and around a gang, our activity would depend on what day it was …

monday to thursday would be vandalism, ”small time” stuff as it called due to how much mental effort and actual time it took to complete the act

friday night to saturday night everything ranging from attacks to arson, whatever we saw and fancied we did

sunday night, dinner and a smoke

i would like to inform everybody i am no longer like this and hope my comments would not affect anybodys opinions of me

tomm

when I lived in Blackburn there was a lot of violence, esp on a friday or saturday night, usually fuelled by copious amounts of alcohol.

I used to go to a club (c’est la vie) which played metal, hip hop etc and the club next door (Never Never Land, owned by the same person) played dance music (mainstream stuff :yakk:)

Anyway the different groups of ppl (goths) and (chavs) that went to these clubs started to hate each other (no idea why), so ppl that went to ‘c’est la vie’ hated the ppl that went to Never Never Land and so the violence started.

Remember when I came out the club (both emptied at 2am) there were at least three riot vans outside.

ppl from one club would go into the other one and beat someone up and vice versa. Got to the point c’est la vie closed for a mnth cos someone had got stabbed.

Then noticed ppl were being beat up in broad daylight, going around with baseball bats etc… (my friends brother was put in hospital from being beaten with bats)

(Most of the young ppl that went to these clubs were as young as 15 or 14)

When I visit Bburn to see my mates and we go out at the weekend there is always some ppl fighting in the pub or on the streets, its crazy.

At xmas time we were in the pub and some guy who got his pint spilt by a guy who’d bumped into him started punching him! :you_crazy

you are a decent guy GL, nice one 🙂

i believe your right about the upbringing statement, how we had relativly good up bringings we just chose the less socially acceptable route, i wonder why that is?

tomm

well i certainly know although london is reported in the news a lot, it is happening all over – and not just in cities either. it’s happening up here in normally peaceful york and surrounding area, and i dont even wanna go into hull or grimsby (where me family comes from) as they are pretty fucked.

it’s simply not a big deal to carry a knife nowadays, and nor is it extremely shockin to see a gun being carried. it isn’t as bad now, but when i was in my first few years of secondary school there was a “knife culture” particularly in the older years, and in very few cases it was developing into a gun culture among some people. i used to carry a knife certain places, i’ll admit – it seemed everyone did. more for protection than anythin. and north yorkshire is quite rural, and york ain’t a bad city at all! but last week, a 16 year old was stabbed in york, nothin new. my mates who grew up in places like hull and certain parts of york when they were pretty young, have seen people get stabbed and its no big deal to them.

most of the people who had guns did have relatives in places like leeds and hull though. the thing with knife culture around here (i cant comment too much on gun culture because thankfully it isnt widespread yet and i only knew a few who carried guns, none of them i was good mates with) is that it isn’t about “bravado” or braggin, it’s simply no big deal. in fact in some groups it’s seen as abnormal if you don’t have a knife on ya. certainly when i used to go out in my local town i carried a knife, after a few of my friends got threats about stabbing and other violence aimed at them, i was shit scared and so carried a knife myself. i stopped because being a small community (well, among the “youth” lol) everyone knew who was actually capable of doing serious damage to someone, and they all ended up in prison. however i still avoid certain areas at night.

i dunno, violence is everywhere, and it’s no suprise really if someone gets stabbed, raped, shot – whatever. the way we have become insensitive to these sorts of events because they are so common is a very sad reflection on our society.