I was shocked to hear about a vicious attack that happened locally which left a guy in hospital with serious injuries.

As he walked along the street alone minding his own business, he was attacked by two men with at least one of them carrying a crowbar.

I don’t know what motivated the two men to attack this man with a crowbar and put him in hospital… but I can only hope for their sakes that he was a serial mass murder on his way to kill and their quick thinking actions prevented the deaths of more innocent people…

Otherwise it was a completely stupid, pointless and self damaging thing to do.

Both of the attackers were picked up by the police within hours of the attack and charged.

They are both looking at a long stay at one of Her Majesty’s finest hotels.

You have to ask yourself, what was the point of the attack?

I know that there are murders and attacks which go unsolved or some of the victims are scared into keeping quiet so some cases are hard to prove… but on the whole, every time I hear of a vicious assault, murder or robbery, those responsible are caught and sent to prison.

Which again, begs the questions, was it worth it?

A large percentage of these kinds of crimes are associated to other crimes such as drug dealing and gang disputes, but they rarely end well for the perpetrator.

It amazes me that these ‘hard’ criminal types fail to see this.

Not only do they get sent down regularly, they meet others inside who get sent down regularly, and the people they hang around with are often sent down regularly or know others who get sent down… regularly.

I see a pattern here… how come they can’t see it?

Surely there must be days when they look around and think to themselves ‘that’s another one sent down, it’s happening a bit too often. Maybe crime isn’t as easy and fruitful as I first thought’.

I once wrote about a gang of thieves who robbed a post office at knife point in a small Nottinghamshire village, who then drove the two miles back to their home in Lincolnshire crossing the border at the river Trent using the only bridge for 20 miles, only to find a welcome party of police cars waiting for them.

Not only did they not get to enjoy the money they stole, if you divided that money by the length of their sentences… the prison time they had to serve amounted to less than 50 pence per day.

I mean the whole day, not an 8 hour work day, the full 24 hours.

Seriously, would you risk losing your freedom and being locked up with some of the nastiest dregs of society for 50 pence per day?

I appreciate that people in real desperate situations can turn to crime to escape those situations… but on the whole, most of the street crime which happens is by people who are… dare I say it… clueless and lazy.

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