Rape outside my place of work

[Deiwos]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-11733742

This happened outside where I work last night/this morning. We don't know anything more than the media is reporting but we're all shocked about it. We are all wondering though how/why this 17 year old was out on the streets at 4am.

Sad thought

 

[Edrof]

Awful

 

[Freelanc3r]

News almost seems fictional half the time, i guess when it's local it really opens your eyes to it all

 

[HAz]

sometimes its best not to rofl

 

[jp_bl_68]

We are all wondering though how/why this 17 year old was out on the streets at 4am.

Pub?

 

[Randomface74]

He is described as mixed race, aged 19 to 20, over 6ft (1.83m) tall, slim build and was dressed in black.

gl with that

 

[Cosimo]

Sad thought

Indeed it is.

 

[johnny6]

but we're all shocked about it.

Really. I honestly must be dead inside, as my reaction isn't one of shock on hearing about crimes/deaths etc which have happened locally.

 

[Deiwos]

Really. I honestly must be dead inside, as my reaction isn't one of shock on hearing about crimes/deaths etc which have happened locally.

It's more the fact it happened right outside where we all work. Had it been some other location in Nottingham, even just round the corner, I'm sure we wouldn't be so surprised. Rape doesn't make even the slightest news broadcast these days.

 

[Deadbeat]

I have to say, I'd be pretty unfazed about this if it were, say, a murder. I remember hearing about a guy who was stabbed to death in the public loos down the road from my old house, I went to see if I could see any blood stains or anything but that's about as far as my interest went. When I read about rapes in my local paper, they unsettled me more deeply - I'm repulsed by sexual assault more than pretty much any type of crime of which I hear. It always strikes me as something inherently evil or, at its best, bestial and I find it the most vile of crimes.

Empathy, OP

 

[Hxc]

Why was a 17 year old out at 4am? Probably out drinking, nothing special.

Not meaning to detract from the horrific nature of rape but that's a silly question.

 

[Lee2k4]

Poor lass is probably scarred for life now mentally, hope they catch the **** who done it.

 

[Participant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitive

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Unfunny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prude

 

[Deiwos]

Thank you to the Mod who tidied this up

 

[Xinn]

OP are you mixed race, aged 19 to 20, over 6ft tall, of slim build and often dress in black?

 

[loltim]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool

 

[Edrof]

Thank you to the Mod who tidied this up

This

 

[Participant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool

Mate we already no you have no sense of humour and are over-easily offended, there's no need to keep re-affirming the fact!

 

[loltim]

Mate we already no you have no sense of humour and are over-easily offended, there's no need to keep re-affirming the fact!

Forgive me for not having a sense of humour in a thread about rape.

 

[ChroniC]

Where does it mention rape, sexual assault is classed as virtually anything sexual in nature and against their will, so pinching someone's bum is sexual assault.
Seems very vague to me.