[Info-vax] [OT] England, was: Re: Update on Cheap DS10s

[David Turner]

Oh there is no question the safest place in the US is worse than the 
most dangerous place in Britain (outside London)
This whole second amendment thing is out of control. And these American 
guns ARE finding their way to the streets of the UK.
They are not all coming from Bulgaria !
Savannah GA had 57 gun murders last year with a real population of about 
60K. They were nearly all inner-city project murders or
gang/drug related.
The town I live in there is rarely anything more than a speeding ticket 
or a drunk driver leaving the local pizza joint. I hope it stays that way

DT


On 1/10/2023 2:11 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-01-10, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, well, Reading is probably the most dangerous leg of all. I would
>> rather be attacked by goats, sheep, cows and farmers than the teenage
>> thugs hanging around Reading. Was there last year. Man how it has changed
>>
> [Oh, why not reply to this ? :-) It's not like there's a lot of other stuff
> being posted.]
>
> Goats I have no real experience with.
>
> Sheep are docile and simply don't care about you unless you get really
> close (2-3m) and then they just move away. Around here, there are villages
> where the sheep and the humans share the pavements, grassy areas, and the
> roads and the sheep simply don't care about the humans unless you get
> _really_ close to them.
>
> Cows are a different story and I would rather have to deal with teenagers
> than a field of cows (especially cows with young hiding behind them),
> although sometimes there's no choice because there isn't another viable
> alternate route.
>
> Farmers either tolerate you but mostly outright welcome you and actively
> engage in discussion with you if you pass them by while they are working
> on their land. Last time I had a real problem with a farmer (claiming there
> wasn't a route across their land even though it was marked on the OS map)
> must be about 10-15 years ago.
>
> The only annoying thing about farmers is that they occasionally take
> advantage of their right to place some kinds of bulls in fields which
> have public rights of way going across them.
>
> Simon.
>
> PS: Reading doesn't exactly strike me as a hotspot of danger. :-)
>