Disturbing events close to home

[flying_whimsy]

Just over a year ago while I was at college a cop was shot and killed right outside my mom's house. The hospital across the street had to replace a bunch of windows that got hit by stray bullets; lucky it wasn't my mom's house.

Honestly, been kind of afraid to go in the city since then.

 

[Bvenged]

Someone who I would've considered a mutual friend got done for armed robbery whilst we were still in sixth form. (17yo)

My next-door neighbour got burgled, could have been me but we got an alarm. These things happen though.

My dad, when I was 10, got dump-tackled after a game of rugby when he went for a drink at the mess' bar. His head caught the corner of the bar and he suffered concussion. Just as he's leaving the hospital the next morning he mentioned he felt pressure in his ears. Luckily the doctor heard him and rushed him in for a CT scan. He was suffering a brain haemorrhage and had the doctor not spotted this, he would've been dead by the end of the day. Despite this he's had several promotions in his job since, but he does suffer with some short-term memory loss at times.

When I was a toddler my parents refused my grandparents to take me to the states for a holiday. They were involved in a head-on collision with a speeder on the way to the airport. They suffered broken bones and to this day I don't know the damage to the rest of the car. Probably for the best. I waste no sleep on this one because one change to the past can change events in the future. If my parents said yes, my grandparents car could've left later, missing the collision.

But hell, I'm sure people have had worse. So no wasted sympathy on close calls for me ;D

As for my geographical area, an expecting mother was stabbed repeatedly, then her house burned down a few weeks ago. A few weeks before that a husband who was separated from his wife waltzed into her hairdressers with a shotgun, let rip and injured 2-3 people, then walked into the woods near my housing area to top himself, burglaries happen all over the place and it isn't Newport if there aren't druggies pleading you for money around the city centre. Not to mention the rapist who got thrown in prison after raping a teen girl by the train-station. Other than that it's a nice area though, minus the monthly high-speed accidents on the 70mph duel carriageway by my house.

 

[AndyRock]

Several years back at my sister's law school graduation one of her fellow class mates was brutally murdered and dismembered with her parts stuffed in a dumpster. I had just met her a few days prior to this happening.

Very similar to this.

A friend of mine years ago moved to Blackpool.

A few months later we got news he had been beheaded and they found his body in a bin. Head was never found.

I live very near to blackpool (closest town apart from Poulton) and didn't hear about this, then again, I don't really keep up with the news that well, otherwise nothing that bad has happened to anyone I know, just somone got stabbed outside of the 6th form that I went to a year before I went there.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Someone was murdered down the street from a friend of mine in her house.
What really freaked me out was when he just said "Oh, yeah. That kind of thing happens all the time up here. Pretty much everyone else on the street is on heroin."

And my high school RMPS teacher's children went to Dunblane primary school at the time of the massacre.
And Dunblane is less than an hour's drive from my town.

 

[loc978]

There was a kid I served in the army with... talented, charismatic, model soldier... fun dude to hang out with, too. I didn't know him all that well, but I was the guy who wound up assigning him to a barracks room and handling several equipment snafus for him (I was a surplus soldier with no position open in what I had trained to do.. so I wound up in headquarters).
...so I also had to help clean things up when he killed himself. For some reason that tore me up worse than any of the friends I had previously lost on deployments.

Oh, also one of my old sergeants committed suicide by police officer a few years ago (public disturbance call, started shooting when they arrived... he was firing blanks). Not that he lived anywhere near me at the time.
and they say we're not the new Vietnam generation. heh.

 

[Rawne1980]

I live very near to blackpool (closest town apart from Poulton) and didn't hear about this, then again, I don't really keep up with the news that well, otherwise nothing that bad has happened to anyone I know, just somone got stabbed outside of the 6th form that I went to a year before I went there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6206646.stm

It was quite a few years ago it happened. We were 17 then and i'm 31 now so it wasn't a recent thing.

He was from Burnley (the town we live in) and moved to Blackpool looking for work. I didn't hear about it for a while, I was in the army.

My friends name was Chris Hartley.

Parts of the teenager's body were found behind the resort's New Central Hotel later that day but his head has never been recovered.

And that was the most disturbing part of it.

 

[Cpu46]

Last year a student at my college disappeared. When they finally found her body in the woods nearby they said she had been beaten, raped, and then lit on fire when she may have been still alive.

We were on lockdown for months and to be honest I carried a small knife around with me whenever I went out late at night.

 

[Lord RPGs]

So, at my old school, a temporary teacher got Year 7 students to hold Dry Ice (which is -A Lot Celcius) for as long as they physically could withstand doing so... Without any kind of safety gear. Most of them got hideous blistering, some of them were taken to hospital, and at least a couple of them are going to be scarred for life.

Man, am I glad I'm out of that place.

 

[wooty]

I, unfortunately, live in Southport, England, so I'm naturally surrounded by petty crime, dickheads, stabbings, GBH and even these gems that happened within the last few months.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/02/23/taxi-driver-revealed-southport-murders-to-merseyside-police-100252-30388674/

http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2012/01/14/police-investigating-southport-church-rape-appeal-for-taxi-drivers-to-come-forward-100252-30120421/

http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/southport-news/southport-southport-news/2011/06/16/southport-men-jailed-for-role-in-merseyside-drugs-ring-led-by-one-legged-cage-fighting-father-of-ten-101022-28886624/

Theres also been a few paedophile teachers uncovered at my old school, but I cant find any links to it.

 

[DanielBrown]

Where I live it's been pretty quiet. The past two years things are starting to turn out crazy though. People get stabbed frequently(by different attackers every time). Only one person has died from it afaik, but tons have gotten disfiguring scars. Often young women are the victims.
Also had an event during the time UK had problems with people rioting. The Swedish youngsters decided to try and kickstart such events here as well, so they trashed our subway and the shops surrounding it.
Fucking retards.

 

[Kragg]

There was a rape just down the street from me last year sometime. The rapist still hasn't been caught.

quote + avatar = :'( im scared

 

[Mr Fixit]

The only thing i get here locally is the unending supply of meth heads & child abusers. I really wish i could provide the punishment for the child abusers, they would suffer greatly.

 

[Powereaver]

we had behind the old hardware store down the road many years ago a guy get killed in the carpark over drug related things from memory... the funny thing was the next morning i walked past the crime scene and didnt see any tape or anything. Forgot to say that while in high school we were taken out onto the school oval for a fire drill.. or so i thought as it turns out later i found out on the news a gunman was on the run near school grounds and police helicopters and cars were in the area.. i always thought the school was stupid later on for putting the entire student populous in a wide open area instead of keeping them in the buildings during the situation.

 

[Blind Sight]

Murder-suicide in a crack den across my street two years ago.

 

[Malkavian]

A lot of drug related crime in the city I currently live, but nothing specific. The town I was born in, however, is not really that big. I mean, it's a city, but only about 36.000 people. It used to be relatively quiet.

However, recently they found a dead baby in a lake that is placed in the centre of the city. And last month they found a woman stabbed multiple times in an ice-cream kiosk of all places.

Might seem "light" compared to some of you guys, but for a middle-sized danish city, that is pretty damn shocking.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I've got a couple. There was a murder in my building, a few years ago. Everyone was quite freaked out, and I almost had a heart attack one morning when I thought I heard an intruder (turns out it was our portly cat jumping off the fridge).

When I was a kid, there was a serial killer in my neighborhood. Well, a serial killer who was stopped at two murders, but a serial killer nonetheless. It just so happens that one of the two victim's was my best friend's mother. =\

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

A local jewelery store was robbed last week. Nothing really special, they just burst in with shotguns, smashed the display cases and swiped what they could before escaping over a fence.

Other then that it's just drunk teens doing drunk teen things.

 

[roushutsu]

Years ago when I used to live in Ohio, there was a police officer in my col-de-sac whose wife was murdered by two guys at their ranch home. At first it looked like it was a robbery gone awry, but years later it came out that he was the one who set the whole thing up. There have been all kinds of stories and debates as to what happened and his motives. Talk about freaky.

 

[awmperry]

Today a guy who I knew fairly well from middle and high school punched his 3 month old daughter in the head because she wouldn't stop crying. He was trying to take a nap.

I suspect there's not a parent alive who hasn't been tempted. The difference is that most of us aren't bloody stupid enough to actually do it...

Anyway, twenty years ago my area rarely had any crime worse than a drunk "borrowing" a bike on the way home from the pub. Nowadays it's become something of a hotbed for heroin, but other than that it's all traffic tickets.

With one exception.

Back in the nineties - around 1994, 1995, I think - a guy decapitated his father with a cricket bat in the car park of the local Coop. The father of one of my fellow air cadets was the paramedic who collected the head.