Making the news today....

[skyhuck]

Double post 

[scotspine1]

[tree-fancier123]

why it's never safe to give someone a good slap (even if they needed it) - obviously no problem in self defence, but this wasn't.

 

"On the last day that Mr Walsh was alive, Stephen Walsh and Katie Brown had attended a friend's christening.They stayed there until about 10.15pm. Mr Walsh was driving them home that evening in his Lexus. He had been drinking throughout the evening and should not have driven. Katie Brown was cross with him for doing this and had an argument with him at the time, but he insisted on driving them home.

 

"On their way home shortly after 10pm, Mr Walsh veered into the path of Oliver Brown, who was travelling with his girlfriend, Roseann Newton. Mr Brown was driving his Vauxhall Astra van. The two vehicles collided to a minor degree." 

She said Mr Walsh should have stopped at the scene but had carried on home and "settled down to watch an episode of Love Island that they had recorded."

Mr Brown had driven round to try and track down the person who hit him, she said, adding that when Stephen Walsh answered the door "Oliver Brown remonstrated with him at the front door and then struck Mr Walsh hard to the face knocking him to the ground."

She added: "He was out cold and unconscious. The blow from Mr Brown and the impact caused by Mr Walsh's head falling to the ground resulted in fractures to his head and jaw. These led to a bleed on the brain that would tragically kill him just a few hours later."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/oliver-brown-road-rage-attack-murder-love-island-stephen-walsh-a8875506.html

 

Edited April 18, 2019 by tree-fancier123
definition of retaliation

[eggsarascal]

Happened to a mate of mine, probably thirty years ago. Him and his girlfriend got hassled by some fella in a pub one night, they drank up and moved on. Tw@t followed them and started again, my mate banged him one, he hit the deck and died. My mate walked on the grounds he was provoked, and it was self defence. Going and finding someone, even if you think they need a slap could get you in big trouble. Anyone that takes the law into their own hands must me prepared for the circumstances.

[difflock]

see link;

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/18/londonderry-riots-woman-dies-shots-fired-petrol-bombs-thrown/

 

As was said here in the early troubles "they havnt gone away you know", i.e. the IRA/PIRA/NIRA/DIRA.

[Mark J]

17 minutes ago, difflock said:

see link;

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/18/londonderry-riots-woman-dies-shots-fired-petrol-bombs-thrown/

 

As was said here in the early troubles "they havnt gone away you know", i.e. the IRA/PIRA/NIRA/DIRA.

Aye. Tinderbox. Good Friday too...

[difflock]

But I wonder will this murder of Lyra McKee,

get the same unrelenting coverage, and repeated mentions/point scoring at every conceivable opportunity,

as the murder of Jo Cox did/does.

mth

 

[tree-fancier123]

1 hour ago, difflock said:

see link;

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/18/londonderry-riots-woman-dies-shots-fired-petrol-bombs-thrown/

 

As was said here in the early troubles "they havnt gone away you know", i.e. the IRA/PIRA/NIRA/DIRA.

Reading the article it mentions the Easter Rising 1916. Looking at photos from the time of the aftermath they tried with everything they had to end British rule, but 103 years on still not got rid of us. It's not enough to fire a machine gun and shout 'get out of my country' they would need to mobilize in greater numbers. Maybe Paddy Power has a wager 'odds on British being forced out of Ireland'

[Mick Dempsey]

15 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

Reading the article it mentions the Easter Rising 1916. Looking at photos from the time of the aftermath they tried with everything they had to end British rule, but 103 years on still not got rid of us. It's not enough to fire a machine gun and shout 'get out of my country' they would need to mobilize in greater numbers. Maybe Paddy Power has a wager 'odds on British being forced out of Ireland'

You know Ireland isn’t part of the UK?

[tree-fancier123]

3 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

You know Ireland isn’t part of the UK?

I was writing imagining the mindset of a republican - to them Ireland is an island the British invaded and they still control the northern part