Ah, innocence: the sweet naivety...

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The headline in the Independent On Sunday (note for foreigners: a newspaper in the UK) is One In Four Children Is A Lawbreaker. I thought well, it's nice that good news makes the headlines once in a while, but apparently this is a record HIGH! Yes, these journalists imagine that 25% of kids (11-16 here) having committed a crime is shockingly high. Am I showing up my misspent youth? (Affluent village, public school.) Isn't this an implausibly low figure, if we remember that shoplifting and loads of drugs count as crimes?

Have these newspaper people led a terribly sheltered life, do you think?

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New I want it to build a model airplane answers.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am not a foreigner, I am a subject.

― Queen G of the Windy Mores, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you tell us all about your childhood, your parents cars and stuff like that? What is it like to go to a public school?

― charles, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I cannot believe this enquiry is serious. My parents were not wealthy (we owned a butcher's shop), and it was not an expensive or famous public school (note for foreigners: in the UK 'public school' means fee-paying posh school). I was just making the point that I was not running with gangs on mean streets.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, you will think that youth crime is hilarious, until you become a victim of it...and then you`ll go aaaaaallllllll quiet! It`s not the same now - not at all. In my day, burglars would rob you blind (can`t remember that many, actually), now they will rob you blind and slit your bunny rabbit`s throat on the way out for your daughter to discover in the morning. Please don`t fiddle while Rome burns!

― Troll, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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