I Can Not Get My Head Around Such Moronic Actions

[Bobbisox1]

On our local news
Tyne & Wear fire brigades are to be issued with body cams ( two to a vehicle) because they are being attacked with fireworks which has started already ,do these morons not think they they can maim for life these brave firefighters doing their jobs !!!
I’d say turn the large hoses on them,idiots!

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.twfire.gov.uk/news/tyne-and-wear-fire-and-rescue-service-introduces-body-worn-cameras/

Sadly it isn't a new thing but non the less bewildering, hopefully the body cams will help root them out.

[hereIam]

Yet more reason to ban the sale of fireworks to the public !!

[Bobbisox1]

The power of those hoses would dampen their attempts

[Theland]

The courts let us down.

Anybody caught only gets a slap on the wrist. And

[retrocop]

Bobbisox
Back about 1975 I used to travel all over the country with lorrys with valuable loads. We stopped overnight in Hotels in Manchester,Leeds and Newcastle. All our team wore proper ballistic body armour,unlike the stab vests that beat officers and traffic wardens wear.
On occasions when aiming for Manchester city centre we passed by the notorious Moss Side. I couldn't help notice that on occasion we would pass our comrades in the Ambulance Service wearing proper heavy duty body armour as was worn by us whilst dealing with collapses in the street or road traffic collisions.
When we later arrived at Mosley Street Police Station I asked the GMP firearms team why the Paramedics wore ballistic body armour.
I was told that not only the Paramedics were forced to wear it for their own protection but fire officers as well.
The hobby,at the time,was for a certain brethren would ignite a car in the Moss Side estate and when the Brigade rocked up they would be sniped at with real firearms from the high rise flat balconies.
Likewise the Paramedics. A stabbing or serious injury would be set up deliberately in a pub within the estate. As soon as the Paramedics arrived they were also sniped at. We are not talking airguns here but lethal 'Saturday Night 'specials. I saw many of them on a peg board display in their armoury.
Fireworks were the least of the emergency services problems back then. :-(

[Bobbisox1]

Rets I know there’s always been nutters, it’s not new but what’s ‘newer’ is the authorities inability to handle them

[retrocop]

I got the date wrong there. It was about 1985- 1997. I don't know how GMP managed it but the sniping ,which was quite prolific,seemed to have died down.

[retrocop]

A little history of who the perps were and why in Manchester.


hhtps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_crime_in_south_Manchester

[retrocop]

oops


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_crime_in_south_Manchester

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_crime_in_south_Manchester

[Mamyalynne]

Great changes happened in Moss Side, it was a terrifying area for a long time.

Returning to firework throwing though, I never saw youths arrested in the sixties, seventies or eighties either.

New technology may improve on that.

[Theland]

mosside - and the prevailing ethnicity was what?

[ToraToraTora]

welcome to TROB Britain.

[ludwig]

// The reasons for this transformation are not entirely clear but the heavy sentencing of main offenders, prohibiting the availability of firearms, community working and co-operation in tackling this kind of crime may have all played a role.//

It's not complicated really. The same actions are now required to tackle knife crime, in particular the stiff sentencing.