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RE: True Stories: Trapped in the Barn (Part Two)
Good that you got away, and typical 1970s/80s police response! (I say that after having had a fantastic recent interaction with local police, so I'm glad that things have changed!).
In the book Acid Attack, the journalist Russell Findlay describes how, shortly after he'd learned to drive, local bullies dropped a large concrete block onto his car from a bridge as he was driving under it. It's astonishing that he escaped with only minor injuries. He knew the gang who dropped the block, and who held a grudge against him, but the gang leader's father was head of the local police, so he got nowhere with them and the case went unpunished.
Yes, they were rather useless in those days.
Now, we are somewhat over-protected. I miss the bonfire's were you could get burnt alive if you were stupid enough to walk into the fire.
There's far less accidents and now the only way you can get back this type of thing is is do it in a developing country.
I'm sure many wont like what I just said, it was just more.... real and not made of plastic.
I know what you mean, and it's quite a thought-provoking statement. I visited Bulgaria in 1989, and you could walk about anywhere, at any time. There was just no crime - because there were Stasi police boxes all over the place, and a Stasi guard on every bus. We don't have Stasi, but we do have eyes all over the place in the form of mobile phones and CCTV.