Adult beat up teen in street

Person_one

zaksmum wrote: »

It was down to the dad to call the police if he chose to do so.

Anybody who witnesses a crime can report it.

poet123

TopQuark wrote: »

Yes but I wasn't a parent, I was an innocent woman who was physically assaulted by a teenage thug in an unprovoked attack. I acted in self defence. If I hadn't of punched him to stop the attack, what else would he have done to me? Was I just supposed to allow myself to get beaten up, simply because he was a 'child' and I was an adult??

No, but I suspect there were other ways of dealing with it. I appreciate you may not have thought that at the time though.

j.e.j.

zaksmum wrote: »

It was down to the dad to call the police if he chose to do so. I think at the moment he has enough on his plate which may explain why he's hesitating. He just wants a quiet life without this lunatic woman waging a hate campaign against him and his family, which she undoubtedly would if the police were called.

The boy who was attacked can be cheeky and undoubtedly did use colourful language and may even have bullied the younger kid, but that's no excuse at all.

The woman who attacked him is a total thug who revels in being a hard case. Can fully understand anyone wanting to avoid getting on the wrong side of her.

Thankyou, this explains things.

It was a bit silly of the lad if he knows the aunt's a total thug to go swearing at and taunting her nephew. That's just asking for trouble.

(And before anyone get's their p-c knickers in a twist, that's different to saying that what she did was right or acceptable, it absolutely wasn't.)

I used to live in quite a rough area. And I've lived in even rougher places since! Violence is the language a lot of these people speak, they know no different. So if you don't want to get a brick through your window yourself, or a black eye, or worse, you learn what to do and what not to do.

Yes, ideally, one should report crimes to the Police. But it isn't always possible or even wise to do so.

I think some of the posters on this thread are well-meaning but a bit out of touch, sorry.

coolcait

zaksmum, reading your posts over the months, I don't know whether you live in the world's roughest area, or Albert Square!

Random fire-eaters encouraging the kids to play with petrol; schoolboys being beaten up in front of an attentive - but inactive - audience of bus passengers.

It appears to be an entire community with an antipathy towards calling the police (or the fire service), but a penchant for telling the tale on the internet.

Tiddlywinks

Sorry, but anyone that just stands around and watches an assault should be ashamed of themselves.

If the OP felt she couldn't intervene (fear or whatever) then she could have phoned 999 straight away.

When are we all going to accept that each and every one of us is a citizen and that together we form a community... the society we live in.

If everyone just does nothing, then nothing will change and these 'thugs' will just get a stronger grip on our communities.

YOU should have done something... you still can do something... rather than treating it as a bit of tittle tattle for an internet forum.

fluffnutter

Crikey, I'm a 40 year old woman. I can't imagine behaving like this in a million years. Madness.

rozmister

I live in a rough area but I've called the police anonymously a few times. Once when I saw someone getting a really bad kicking in the street and once when I got hear my neighbours missus screaming for help. I'd want someone to call the police if it was me.

Gleek

Who's to say that the womans nephew didn't say something to the kid to make him react too?

Definitely have the police involved. She's almost 30 years older and probably a lot bigger and stronger before you even go into her history and background. What's to stop her doing it again if the kid lies that he's done it again - or if the grieving boy gets wound up again and lashes out? It needs to be reported.

I lost my dad at 18, just 5 years older than this boy. You don't know what the hell you're doing or what you're saying sometimes. Whilst I'm not saying he's innocent (maybe he is, maybe it was rubbish, even if the kid is a bit cheeky or maybe he did it) there are some extenuating circumstances too.

He's a child. She's an adult. It's disgusting.

meritaten

Call the police - this was an unprovoked attack on a child by a grown woman! I am disgusted that any person could behave this way!

The cops are NOT impressed by local 'hard women'! and if she gets reported anonymously - well, that's her 'hard luck'. Ive come across a few of these myself zaksmum - as well as hard they are usually stupid and brag about what they have done - as the cops know.

report it without giving your name (make one up) and don't use your own phone! give as much detail as you can. hopefully she will still be so pumped up she wont realise the cops are there to arrest her - not applaud her actions!

rozmister

meritaten wrote: »

Call the police - this was an unprovoked attack on a child by a grown woman! I am disgusted that any person could behave this way!

The cops are NOT impressed by local 'hard women'! and if she gets reported anonymously - well, that's her 'hard luck'. Ive come across a few of these myself zaksmum - as well as hard they are usually stupid and brag about what they have done - as the cops know.

report it without giving your name (make one up) and don't use your own phone! give as much detail as you can. hopefully she will still be so pumped up she wont realise the cops are there to arrest her - not applaud her actions!

You don't even need to make up a name they accept anonymous reports. I'd never give my name round where I live and when I've said that they've still taken my call and sent a car. They're really good about it round here and I assume its a nationwide policy