RE: Living in Fear
July 16, 2022 at 10:54 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2022 at 10:59 pm by paulpablo.)
Well I was going to answer the question generally, I've feared for my life because of paranoia about medical situations, near misses with traffic accidents, threatened by various people, had weapons pulled out on me.
One person in particular turned up at my work but I wasn't there at the time and threatened to break into my house and stab me while I sleep but that issue got resolved. For while I walked around charged with adrenaline from that.
Getting lost out in the middle of nowhere hiking, that was pretty scary. I was with a woman not as experienced as me at walking and she had twisted her ankle and I would never have left her but that mean't I couldn't leap over rivers, climb over fences and get to where I needed to be to get out of the place we were in.
In relation to demographics I'm white and I lived in a Pakistani area and sort of still live around the same place. Apart from vague threats like being told to move out, being called a white bastard once in a while I never felt any serious threat to my life.
If I would have got on the wrong side of the local Pakistani gangs my family would have been fucked. I don't come from a violent, criminally connected family so any sort of local dispute wouldn't have gone our way at all. I've witnessed kidnappings, gang beatings with all different races, black, white, bengali, pakistani, romanian. In my specific area Pakistanis have the numbers and the upperhand by far I'd say.
I think that's the same for anyone living near other people anyway, the police won't really give you much protection from whoever the local power is.
In relation to the police there's been no fear for my life, I've been stopped for ridiculous reasons but that's about it. Probably because of how I was dressed or the area I was in.
The only other thing to say, this isn't really demographics but I used to be what's known as a Mosher, something similar to being like a goth. In my teenage years me and my friends got in some altercations over how we dressed and since two goths got killed by some people a while ago I think this is actually classed as a hate crime now.
My and my friends have been chased, threatened and all sorts but again I never took it that seriously.
It used to be a really common thing, chavs vs moshers.
One person in particular turned up at my work but I wasn't there at the time and threatened to break into my house and stab me while I sleep but that issue got resolved. For while I walked around charged with adrenaline from that.
Getting lost out in the middle of nowhere hiking, that was pretty scary. I was with a woman not as experienced as me at walking and she had twisted her ankle and I would never have left her but that mean't I couldn't leap over rivers, climb over fences and get to where I needed to be to get out of the place we were in.
In relation to demographics I'm white and I lived in a Pakistani area and sort of still live around the same place. Apart from vague threats like being told to move out, being called a white bastard once in a while I never felt any serious threat to my life.
If I would have got on the wrong side of the local Pakistani gangs my family would have been fucked. I don't come from a violent, criminally connected family so any sort of local dispute wouldn't have gone our way at all. I've witnessed kidnappings, gang beatings with all different races, black, white, bengali, pakistani, romanian. In my specific area Pakistanis have the numbers and the upperhand by far I'd say.
I think that's the same for anyone living near other people anyway, the police won't really give you much protection from whoever the local power is.
In relation to the police there's been no fear for my life, I've been stopped for ridiculous reasons but that's about it. Probably because of how I was dressed or the area I was in.
The only other thing to say, this isn't really demographics but I used to be what's known as a Mosher, something similar to being like a goth. In my teenage years me and my friends got in some altercations over how we dressed and since two goths got killed by some people a while ago I think this is actually classed as a hate crime now.
My and my friends have been chased, threatened and all sorts but again I never took it that seriously.
It used to be a really common thing, chavs vs moshers.
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