[kj] When Goths Cry... middle class, working class ... it's all a load of ...

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Nah, they weren't useless pieces of shit mate - they're vulnerable. You should've hugged them.
 
That's an awful story - I hope they all get run over.

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Brian Whitehead
Sent: 21 February 2008 09:48
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] When Goths Cry... middle class,working class ... it's all a load of ...


"every week there appears to be another story of a family man who interrupts a gang of mindless idiots causing some minor trouble on the street, then struck down in front of their own children and left to die"
 
Exactly what happened to me 18 months ago.
Me and my mate coming home after watching the footy and 3 or 4 pints in the pub (I was not drunk). It was about 9:30 and we decided to take a Pizza home and have a drink there listening to some music. Went into the local pizza place, ordered a Pizza and then sat down chatting waiting for our food. Next thing a couple of young basball cap wearing lads of around 12 year old came in and started giving the guy serving a load of hassle. They then started kicking in the door to get in the back which they succedded in doing, but they were unsuccessfull when they tried to grab the till and were chased out. Next they came back in throwing loads of racial abuse at the guys working in there. At this point I'd had enough and foolishly said to the lads "cut it out lads will you". Got outside after our food was ready and there was about 15 of them waiting for us. They started to follow us home so we decided to run, which we did in opposite directions. They came after me, caught me, and gave me the biggest kicking of my life. I thought I was going to die even the girld were having a go. 
I was found face down in the gutter semi consious with half my face hanging off and I'd also completely pissed myself.
They had knicked my pizza but left me with my wallet and mobile phone.
Was carried home and taken to hospital. I was physically OK but the mental scars lasted a lot longer. I was nervous going out after dark for nearly a year and stopped going to gigs. My 3 year old daughter was scared of me because of the way I looked and wouldn't sit next to me. 
I saw one of them a few months after the incident at a set traffic lights, he was crossing the road in front of me and he looked right at me as he crossed. It really freaked me out and I felt like running him over.
 
95% over it now but it comes back to me every time I hear on the news of another innocent guy getting what I did. I consider myself very lucky to be alive.
 
Brian.
  

 
On 20/02/2008, pssyche23 < antoni at clara.net> wrote: 

They now refer to it as "feral youth" over here ... a product of a broken and sick society ... devoid of any compassion, values or understanding for anyone else - every week there appears to be another story of a family man who interrupts a gang of mindless idiots causing some minor trouble on the street, then struck down in front of their own children and left to die ... it's like an epidemic ... nothing like the petty youth cult squabbles of the past ... and then there's the bizarre case of Bridgend in Wales ... another teenage suicide ... some 17 in the past year ... quote in the paper today from a 16 year old "these people are just bored of their lives, man. Kids here have been drinking, smoking dope, taking ecstasy, having sex since they were 13 or 14, so by the time they reach my age, they've done everything and they are bored shitless". 
 
What sort of monster has been created ?  There's a fucking world out there to explore and experience, the joys of seeing your own family growing up ... it's like a section of society has been left behind ... I bet they've all got their multi-channel TV, mobile phones & XBOX/DS/wii etc etc ... and why do kids aspire to all this irrelevant gangsta shite ... I think more grannies should go out wearing hoodies plus it keeps em warm in winter ... the hoodie craze would die down fairly quickly ... look, you don't live in the ghetto, you live in Milton Keynes & you hang around the shopping centre ... it is not the same thing ... c'mon Jon please give us your verdict on this problem ...  

 

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