Anyone have experience of GBH/Assault?

Yep, nothing like some sweet justice handed out there and then.

I don't get why people go out looking for it, there's many people now trained in some form of martial arts. You really don't know who you're messing with.

I guess when people have an inability to resolve conflicts with speech, this is their only way to act.
 
After numerous years, I STILL can't figure out exactly what's going on in this video but it's a great watch nonetheless.

 
People like that always "feel bad" about it when they get caught.

Scumbag, sucker punching someone is a seriously low move, I hope he gets taken to the cleaners but most likely will not.

Hope you heal up quickly OP.
 
Aldav said:
I sympathise with where your coming from (and even more with Hedge) but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to see situations were a mandatory duty to 'help' police could be very oppressive, or even dangerous. It's also broadly in line with the principle that we are all entitled to expect the state to leave us alone unless we do something illegal, and the other team members, according to Hedge's account, didn't.

That said, a moral obligation can argued to exist giving people a duty to help. If you won't help when someone else needs it, you can't be upset if others won't help when you need it. We can hope that karma visits those team members, and indeed the puncher, with an appropriate karmic kick in the nads.

As for police attending every match looking for him, when we can't even guarantee under-resourced police attending burglary crime scenes, good luck with getting them spending that kind of manpower on this. Ths sad truth is that while it's a really big issue for the victim, it's a drop in the ocean for the police, and sadly, not a rare occurance.
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You see I would think they would dedicate resource to finding violent criminals rather than chasing someone who may have been a kiddy fiddler in the 60's or may have called a police officer a pleb. Then again, I may be wrong!
 
Dis86 said:
You see I would think they would dedicate resource to finding violent criminals rather than chasing someone who may have been a kiddy fiddler in the 60's or may have called a police officer a pleb. Then again, I may be wrong!
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Whatever the medias hot topic is. What matters is public opinion rather than results, as people are promoted and fired due to the opinion of those who put them there rather than common sense and just management.

The more the public responds to it, the more the media will publish on it and therefore the more will be dedicated toward it. Not hard to think of a few missing child cases that (though tragic) the investment on money and work force was grossly disproportionate to the crime and available evidence, especially if you compare it to similar cases.
 
Dis86 said:
You see I would think they would dedicate resource to finding violent criminals rather than chasing someone who may have been a kiddy fiddler in the 60's or may have called a police officer a pleb. Then again, I may be wrong!
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In an ideal world, I agree.

The problem is, the scale of violence used in this situation can have serious impacts for the victim, but is of a scale that occurs hundreds or thousands of times a week, given drunken scuffles most weekends where someone gets punched out, bottled, glassed, etc.

The sheer volume of such incidents means police simply don't have the resources to show up to matches week after week hoping the offender will turn up, only to find he gets a slap on the wrist if he ends up in court. And court can't give even violent offenders 'proper' jail time because we barely have adequate jail resource now, even after releasing a lot of offenders half way through the sentence they do get.

It's not hard to sympathise with police. Large chunks of the community detest them, even larger chunks still resent speeding fines, etc, and even when they do get lucky and, having busted a gut to do it and get some scumbag before the court, courts give derisory sentences and then let people out half way through even that. I'd love to know how many cops seriously wonder, at least from time to time, why they bother?
 
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