A Near Miss For Leeds

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The UK bugulary league

Rank City

1 Nottingham
2 Leeds
3 Hull
4 London
5 Oxford
6 Bristol
7 Reading
8 Manchester
9 Sheffield
10 Cambridge

Glad to see my home team doing the double. Not only do we top the murder league, we've cemented our place in the bugulary division too. I don't think you need to be a genius looking at the palce names and spotting the correlation mind you.
 
Whilst not wishing to tee up the anti-Liverpool brigade too much. I should perhaps say that these rankings come from the insurance industry rather than the police crime stats I believe :D
 
Probably because it's for residential addresses, so a town full of B&B's wouldn't count. :P In any case you'd have to have a truly industrial sized claim if it is made up of towels, packets of soap, and shower gel a year to lay a finger on Nottingham
 
general rule of thumb in these things. Look down the list till you find Liverpool. Manchester will be higher up the page. Strange that.
 
Hah! :D That reminds me... I stayed with a very tall and large male chum when I was looking for flats to buy down here. I was woken up by him crashing into my room at 4.00 a.m., with a baseball bat in hand, squeaking "I think we've been burgled!" I blearily asked what he expected me to do about it - after all, he'd got the bat, and I didn't see any evidence of it having been used. The truth is, he'd cowered in his room until he thought the rogues had made their exit, then come out trying to look all butch with the silly bat. And with a towel round his middle - very threatening, not.

'We' - or, rather, he, had been burgled. For the third time, and in the exact same way! The idiot had put helpful dustbins right under a big strong drainpipe outside, which had a useful bend in it right under his bathroom window, which he'd equally helpfully left open. Even I could have managed that! Up went the rogue, got in through the bathroom, casually propped open his flat's door, and then went downstairs to prop open the main door and let in his accomplice/s. They got away with a video recorder (this was 1998), loads of vids and CDs, and various odd items. You had to marvel at what a neat job they'd done, and how daft arming yourself with bats for such eventualities is, if you can't bring yourself to blast out of your bedroom and scare them off.
 
My choice of bedside weapon is half a pool cue, lovely weight for swinging and solid enough to brain anyone trying to rob me

Strange to see Brum not on the list but Cambridge is???
 
Oxford and Reading too. Hardly crime hot spots, but both have significant student populations. As I said the correlation isn't difficult to spot. People who leave their properties vacant for pro-longed periods and predictable times of the year :suspect:
 
Originally posted by Warbler@May 29 2007, 07:20 PM
The UK bugulary league

Rank City

1 Nottingham
2 Leeds
3 Hull
4 London
5 Oxford
6 Bristol
7 Reading
8 Manchester
9 Sheffield
10 Cambridge

Glad to see my home team doing the double. Not only do we top the murder league, we've cemented our place in the bugulary division too. I don't think you need to be a genius looking at the palce names and spotting the correlation mind you.
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Aren't these places full of students ? There lies the problem. :P :P
 
Liverpool has two universities and a couple of major colleges too. Obviously all the robbing scallies are away at uni elsewhere.
 
Is it possible that these are the cities that have most insurance claims for burglary, genuine or otherwise, rather than crimes reported ?
 
maybe they are the highest insured(in numbers) hence the scores, other areas don't bother or cant afford it, as it comes way down the pecking order in outgoings..

Mike my niece's next door kneighbour had the same tool a full cue and a young guy broke into his house at 4am he heard something downstairs, picked up the cue and ran down the stairs and met this guy aged about 17 he beat him with it and got 5 yrs jail for doing soo.............aint the law an azz, you should have the right to stop these people regardless as to what you use, he should NOT be in your property full stop.......

p.s. I have a pick axe handle as my form of defence..................... :D :P
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@May 30 2007, 09:57 PM


Mike my niece's next door kneighbour had the same tool a full cue and a young guy broke into his house at 4am he heard something downstairs, picked up the cue and ran down the stairs and met this guy aged about 17 he beat him with it and got 5 yrs jail for doing soo.............aint the law an azz, you should have the right to stop these people regardless as to what you use, he should NOT be in your property full stop.......
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Would the threat of the cue not have been enough to get the lad off the property. Violence really needed?
 
Originally posted by PDJ@May 30 2007, 09:08 AM
The Pro, just about every UK city is full of students so that argument doesn't work.
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It wasn't a argument it was tongue in cheek.

:what:
 
Originally posted by Dave G@May 30 2007, 12:44 AM
general rule of thumb in these things. Look down the list till you find Liverpool. Manchester will be higher up the page. Strange that.
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Like the Premier League Dave? :P


The list seems to cover most of the major population areas, so the absence of Birmingham is to its credit.
 
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