Vigilantes

[IdleRich]

I think you're a bit younger than me Shaka? Otherwise you would remember that if you grew up in that area I reckon, one of those things where there must be a cut off date where you have to have been born before x to remember it.

 

[Leo]

It's not The Publisher though.

Yeah, he's the superhero who spends his days reading manuscripts and nights patrolling rare book stores.

 

[IdleRich]

Comic books is the opposite of my speciality but I'm sure there is a guy who goes after superheroes, one of you geeks must know who I mean?

 

[Mr. Tea]

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The black dude has apparently armed himself with a giant's toothpick.

 

[sufi]

So what about the west london car guy?
That is a proper vigilante scenario to consider - he's got off scotfree apparently

 

[sufi]

So what about the west london car guy?
That is a proper vigilante scenario to consider - he's got off scotfree apparently

'Vigilante' driver arrested for 'hitting & killing knifeman' who stabbed mum

A ‘VIGILANTE’ driver today mowed down and killed a knifeman who stabbed a mum to death at the school gates, terrified witnesses said. The woman, 43, was heard screaming for help as she …

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[sufi]

'Vigilante' driver arrested for 'hitting & killing knifeman' who stabbed mum

A ‘VIGILANTE’ driver today mowed down and killed a knifeman who stabbed a mum to death at the school gates, terrified witnesses said. The woman, 43, was heard screaming for help as she …

www.thesun.co.uk

like a superhero swooping in to deliver street justice

 

[version]

Assuming he isn't some maniac who just happens to have hurt the right person this time, I think it's probably the correct decision. The bloke was stabbing a woman to death and could well have turned his attention to others too, perhaps even running into the school.

 

[IdleRich]

did just find this though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher_Kills_the_Marvel_Universe

Oh I just found that and came here to say it... damn, didn't realise it was there hours ago. It's obviously what I was thinking of at first.

 

[IdleRich]

yeah right. these are the examples that come to mind for me when you broaden this discussion out to places like that. can think of specific examples eg in kabul where someone was beaten to death on the street in the town center because of a rumour that she had desecrated a koran, totally untrue but the guys on the street kicked her to death. her name was farkhunda. i was in a town called briala slatina or something like that in northern bulgaria and someone beat a roma guy to death in the village square. no idea what the story was there. my town in bangladesh had a mob justice thing going on where they surrounded the police station and killed six policement i think. it totally depends on where you're talking about but in general a legal system seems preferable to me.

Yeah... how did the rumour get started? Malicious or accidental?

"Oh shit... no no no I didn't say "desecrated" I said... oh it's too late..? Oops. Well that is very unfortunate."

 

[IdleRich]

Surrey nonce hunters

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There's always the suspicion that these types are basically bullies who have found a group that society will allow them to bully and so they gleefully do just that with a clear conscience.

Actually it's not even a suspicion, I'm all but certain that this is the case with virtually all of them.

 

[luka]

of course it's about sadism

 

[IdleRich]

It's all there in that video, he's not saying "Thank goodness I have saved loads of boys and girls from your predation and hopefully you can now get the help that you need" he's focusing a lot more on the "I'm here to ruin your life" aspect... any saving of children long forgotten.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if a lot of these brave dispensers of justice go through life leaving a trail of battered girlfriends, innocent pub-goers they've glassed after they looked at them for a millisecond too long, probably some badly mistreated dogs...

 

[mixed_biscuits]

= the working classes shouldn't be permitted to police others' behaviour informally as those who would perform this kind of activism are irrevocably violent degenerates prone to a distastefully inaesthetic sadism, whereas the middle classes...?

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The middle classes know that the police are underfunded, overstretched and partway incompetent but they won't venture within sniffing distance of the festering sores on society's underbelly for fear of the stench sticking to them.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Look out everyone, it's 'Red' Biscuits, the notorious radical socialist firebrand!

 

[Murphy]

@mixed_biscuits or they could go to Oxbridge and post queasy guff here about hanging nurses

didn’t have you down as a hypocrite, Biscetti (ok that’s a fib)

 

[luka]

ive seen mixed biscuits penis weirdly. he showed it to me.

 

[luka]

i'll draw it if anyone wants