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1:10pm Tuesday 7th October 2008
POLICE have issued a fresh appeal for information after a 25-year-old man was left with two cuts to his back when thieves tried to steal his phone.
The man had been texting as he walked along Cloister Drive, Darwen, at 9.30pm on September 11 when he was approached from behind by two men.
They demanded his mobile and kicked him to the ground but they were unable to steal the phone. The man felt some pain in his back but walked home.
When he arrived back he discovered he had two seven-inch cuts to his back.
The two men were described as aged 18 to 25, about 5ft 10in with slim builds.
One wore a dark hood which covered his face. It had thick grey stripes under the arms.
He was also wearing black adidas tracksuit bottoms with white stripes and trainers.
The other man wore a light blue hooded top, which also covered his face and tracksuit bottoms with two white stripes running down the side of them.
Anyone with information should contact Darwen CID on 01254 353 841 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Davidoff, n/a says...
7:00pm Sat 11 Oct 08
So I will merely copy into this report what I posted on another scum laden report from the LET about Darwen, and it's frighteningly increasing infestation of scum behaviour:
Sorry to say, they cannot help behaving nor being that way. It's a simple matter of how they are, how they always will be, their kids, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. They will never change, because they do not want to change their behaviour. Vandalism, thuggery, stealing is 'normal' for these types of people. Having observed them for a while - coming from a much better area myself, forced to live in this cesspit of a town *temporarily I hope to God!* - they are simply that way. They do not want to live in a nice street, free from rats, free from flytipping. They simply wish to breed more of the same, inflict themselves on the rest of the decent folk living nearby in the town. It is how they are born, how they will always be born. They know no other way to behave. Shame in the 21st century we still have this problem.
Please, for the love of God, either the council, the police work together to rid the town of this scum once and for all! Readers know who they are, where they live. Other towns around the country have taken the initiative, said enough is enough and got together to drive these scum out of their neighbourhoods. Certainly, they do not deserve a home, when they fill it with garbage, filth, drugs, you name it. Then destroy everything in the town that is good. Then complain when people have a go at them. Just look in the mirror you people who behave like vermin. There's your answer. There are said to be rats infesting the streets in the town. Are these human or rodent based?
If that is harsh it is nothing to how these scum view decent human beings. They cannot BE decent themselves. Don't know how. Lost count of the police sirens constantly going out, morning, noon, evening day or night. The copter overhead in the summer. Gangs of underage alcoholic youths running amok round the streets. Where are the parents? Doing the same no doubt. Stoned, high as a kite, down the pub, wouldn't know where their 9 year or younger was til midnight. Do not care.
There are decent folk in the town, but they are let down by these scum. Get rid of them! Get them the hell out of Darwen! Because THEY are the real reason the town is and has the reputation it has got. Until it is dealt with, the town will disintegrate beyond redemption. These people are given help ... they do not deserve it. I'd rather help went to people who DID deserve it and do not bite the hand that feeds them by behaving socially unacceptably. If someone paid me, I'd be out of Darwen like a shot! I used to stick up for the town, no I don't bother. Because of the people, their attitudes. Won't change, don't want to change. Daily I hear people talking about this waiting for the bus. Do yourselves a favour, you people who want to make your town a toilet and get the hell out of it! Go and live on an island somewhere where you can attack each other, vandalise to your heart's content. Because there is no place in a civilized world for your ilk!