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I'm also pretty sure that the injuries from a WD40 flamethrower would result in a prosecution, even if you cite self-defence as the response would be considered disproportionate.0 -
When I was in boarding school, other boys used to terrorise me by lighting a deodorant aerosol and brandishing it as a flamethrower above me in bed.
What's the old saying? Happiest days of your life? (sarc)0 -
I always wanted to go to boarding school, maybe it wouldn't have been what I thought! I've never been bullied despite being wee- I think my gob can strip paint lol.
I've decided to go back to home made bread, but not buying another breadmaker. Will use the dishwasher instead... name of Jimmy.Now looking around for diabetic-friendly bread flour..
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Possibly not if you're 5...
This is what they're teaching kids, so if you see a child pulling away from an adult, crouching down and shouting 'stranger' then please intervene.
Part of the crouching down thing is that it makes the children much more difficult to pick up - failing anything else for those of us of smaller stature, its one to emulate.
And agree, reacting and intervening is vital.Children are also taught to shout 'no' if anything makes them scared or uncomfortable.
I think greenbee makes a very good point in that we should also be alert and aware of others raising the alarm around us.
Its too common that cries for help are ignored, If we expect people to react and assist us (see up thread for why I'm personally grateful for this) then its only fair that we react and assist others. Its no good moaning that people ignore people in trouble if that's what we personally are doing, the only way of reclaiming the society we want is being the people who comprise that society.0 -
The thing that occurred to me whilst reading this topic is that much of the advice is about what to do if walking alone at night etc. But the topic was raised after the incidents in Germany and in these cases the women were often with others in a crowd situation, so although some of the advice given could be applied, it seems that it is a completely different scenario. As a teenager I was once "groped" when leaving a football match by a group of youths who surrounded me then moved in close together. Although I was shouting and trying to move away I was effectively sandwiched in the group and my shouts were lost in the crowd. Although in this situation I was probably not likely to be seriously, physically injured, it took me a long time to get over this attack. Although I reported it to the police at the gate, they basically said that it would be impossible to find the perpetrators so I should just go home. My teenage years are quite a long time ago so no cctv cameras then, and hopefully police attitudes have changed in that time, but I can see that it would still be a very difficult situation to police. So although I avoid walking alone at night/in isolated places as much as possible, I also try to avoid these type of crowd situations, but still try to live my life as freely as possible, and without viewing any particular group of society with fear.0
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Regarding the cries for help..I wish people would teach their kids about not crying wolf.. We have an Alley-way near us where there are often teenage voices shrieking in 'terror' and there was a neighbour last year who's daughter (possibly between 4 and 7 judging by her voice) screamed her lungs out in their garden .
Each time it has proven to be just messing about.
If anything were to happen in this area, no one would even glance in the direction of the cries. Not because they don't care, but because they are so used to hearing the same sounds used in ordinary playing.0 -
It's really easy to default to cynicism these days, since you are almost always certain to be right.0
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One other thought to toss into the self-defence mix. It was in one of the comments on an article in one of today's papers re an incident experienced by a Swedish girl on her own.
That being - Deep Heat spray.
So - that's another thing that anyone might be carrying on them anyway - ie in case of muscular pain.0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »One other thought to toss into the self-defence mix. It was in one of the comments on an article in one of today's papers re an incident experienced by a Swedish girl on her own.
That being - Deep Heat spray.
So - that's another thing that anyone might be carrying on them anyway - ie in case of muscular pain.
Oh, now, thats good! I don't believe there's any reason to be carrying WD40 away from the house, but with my proven history of arthritis, Deep Heat spray is a viable proposition :j:j:j2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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