Tags: crime, ealing, england, uk
Current Mood: pensive

• I am being forced to update by text message threats! Its outrageous I tell you! But it does work! I shall blackmail my friends I want to update, to update! muhahahaha! Its strange that the people who joined lj at about the same time as me, have mostly stopped posting so much. I have noticed a sort of 'internet fatigue' going on with my internet friends who I have known for years and I am part of that. Its like they (and me) cannot be bothered to update their journals or update or change their websites. Its like there is millions of static personal blogs/journals and home pages. I wonder if people are just overwhelmed by the net and information. I don't really set out anymore to chat online or make new friends. I like talking to new people but don't go and chat all the time. But there is massive numbers of people who still have a online presence but are not really as active online as they were. Maybe there is more important things in their lives? I just forget to update my lj! or run out of time. I get so sad when a friend deletes their journal or website, especially when its been around for years! I just hope they keep in touch with me :)



• My parents are currently away for two weeks in Mauritius and return on Friday. My brother, his lovely Girlfriend and I have had fun and were drunk all weekend! We keep having drunken late night discussions on major issues like legalising all drugs, the state of the world and we have in depth discussions on Big Brother lol. Its been fun, but will be glad to have them back. I am so exhausted!



• George Galloway was on Sky News this morning and totally destroyed the host. You can see the interview on youtube right here. He supports Hezbollah which I don't but I love the bits about Sky News and the Murdoch Israeli bias. Why cant someone do that on Fox News! I can never decide if I love him or hate him. I don't agree with all his views but he is passionate and gives a left wing different view to almost every issue. I like to have those sort of people in the world, even if I don't agree with him. I want both sides of the issue. But sometimes he is also annoying. I do think its better to have politicians who say their views rather than just toe the line. Although his argumentative style is a bullying but says what he thinks and often has the evidence and the researched facts to back it up.



• My brother had his car broken in two weeks ago. They smashed a small window. He has an old car which has no central locking and no alarm. He has a lead in his car which goes from his cd/radio that he plugs his mp3 player in. He left the lead out there and I think the car was broken in to, to look for anything valuable, which there is nothing of value he ever leaves in the car. They pulled the car stereo out but did not take it. So the damage was a broken small triangular window and they stole the aux audio lead and a pair of headphones and so he lost a total of about £8! lol We phoned the police (our local police station has closed down! The police station that handled the crime was a good 45mins away from us by car!). They said that they would ring when someone could come out to the car. The next day a different police station phoned up and did the investigation over the phone and just gave a crime number! My parents heard about this on holiday by text and were outraged which I am as well really because there was no presence by the police in our crime. How does that look for the local community and for local PR? People already have some negative opinions about the police, doing crime investigation over the phone hardly helps! I wanted finger printing dammit! So the question is, what crimes do they come out for now? Do they do burglary's over the phone, do you have to have multiple murders before they come out? Gareth got his crime reference number anyway and claimed the insurance to fix the window.



• I had crime of my own! Some cunt committed fraud on my credit card! The card never left the house or was stolen or lost. Some people/ crims have machines which generate random numbers. They try to make purchases on cards until they are successful. All you need for a credit card purchase to go through online is the card number which is 16 digits and the expiry date which is like xx /xx. I saw a transaction on my account online for a company called Lyra Telecom for like £5. I was really sure I never have used them which are a calling card type telecom company. I pay for a voip number from a company and texts online from another company but they were not this telecom company. I phoned and complained and it was put through to the fraud department. They refunded me the money. The next day someone from my credit card company phoned and they had been bombarded by loads of online transactions to my card. But they didn't seem to know the expiry date that worked, so they used my card number and sent to loads of expiry dates in the next 2 years. Some of them had gone on my card for like £700 which I did not have available on my card anyway! lol The credit card company were really good and the card was suspended and I had to get a new card and number and pin and online account argh! I was refunded all of the money taken and any interest. Its a bitch though to update all my online accounts and Amazon and stuff! argh! I looked at my account online and another fraudulent transaction was 2 online bookings for cinema tickets on consecutive days. It is scary to think that you don't even have to use your card ever and someone could randomly generate your number! I have thought for a long time that the credit card system is not as safe as it seems, because its not that hard to find numbers that match. It reminds me of research from a university a few years ago that 4 digit pin numbers are not as hard to guess as thought. It was supposed to be like 1 in billions chance of working out someones pin in a certain number of goes. But this published research proved that it does not take as many times to get a pin as thought! The probability was far less, but still thousands to one chance. I swear people are committing fraud against you at any turn, using your identity, credit cards, bank account, everything! Then again I don't agree with biometric identity cards and passports. You could pay loads for security with finger prints, retina scans and penis size scanning but already the proposed very expensive UK Biometric Passport scheme has hit a problem. Its already been hacked!

Tags: crime, england, politics
Current Mood: chipper

A friend of mine devoiddroid was attacked last night. He works at night and has worked there for years and walks there every night and that is the first time its ever happened and its completely insane.

Someone asked him for a light for their cigarette and he said he didn't have one so they punched him in the face. I find it absolutely insane that someone would do that to someone! Then again I am against violence, unless its gay wrestling with hot guys in tight Lycra and oil obviously and I'm not a violent person.

He has a black eye and slightly messed up face, I told him to go to the police but he said they have attacks all the time like they will care, which is probably true! I really believe in karma (not the portable music player by Rio) and that it will come back on the person.

I was thinking about this today and it reminded me of the time years ago that I was robbed at knife point. I looked through my old posts on google and even found I mentioned it before, right here, it was part of a quiz that I copied and even mention the lovely nasal, here is the important extract...

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WALLET: Fake Leather. Not that I am vegan, just cannot afford real stuff! ARGH maybe it is real , I dunno! I was once mugged and held at knife point (years ago) and my best friend was there, and her photo is in my wallet and the two attackers said "is that your girlfriend?" at the wallet pics and totally did not see Catherine LOL That was amusing. How dear the accuse me of being straight! Why do I have women in my wallet ewwwie :) love you really luv

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I first got ill in 1996 and in the first few months even though my health was bad I was still trying to do a lot of stuff and going out and stuff. Catherine and I went on a nice sunny day to a park and in the park I have always loved this little trickling fountain in a small pool. There was benches around this pool and I was sitting down with  her talking. Some guys came up to us, who were like 14 or something and were hassling. One of the guys put his hand in my trouser pocket and pulled out my wallet. They took it away and took out my bank card, national insurance card and all the cash in it (which was really not that much, like £10). They came back and questioned me and wanted my pin number for my bank account, I said no way, there is only like £7 in it anyway! and there really was at the time cos I had gone on a spending feast! One of the guys who I remember was a tall black guy was talking to Catherine by the fountain and the other guy who was mixed race was sitting by me on the bench. (weirdly we both thought they were both cute guys, yet stealing cunts!). The guy sitting next to me suddenly pulled out a knife and put it to my neck and wanted my pin. I was like no way! Maybe it was the rush of adrenalin but I decided there was no way I was telling them my info to get into my bank account! He had the knife to my throat and I remember weirdly not being scared at all. I didn't like provoke him then but was saying "yeah thats a really good idea!" but not saying stuff like go on then, Catherine suddenly flipped out (rush of adrenaline) and started shouting at them! She was like he is not well and just fuck off and leave us alone and was really shouting. I am not sure why we didn't do anything until then.

They gave me my wallet back without money but the bank card was back in it. and in the wallet was photos of friends. They said to me (as the old post above said, and I totally forgot about that bit!!) "is that your girlfriend?" Catherine had blonder hair in the photo and was really dark and gothic standing there then. I couldn't believe they didn't see it was the same person!

They walked off and had just taken the cash from my wallet and weirdly my national insurance card. we were on a normally busy path in and out of the path but whilst they were there, it was totally dead, no one walked past or was near the area! As we left that area I cried and we went home and my parents called the police, who were like "we cant do anything now" and just took descriptions. The female officer told me next time to start shouting "fire, fire!"  and it would get attention, rather than like help or something like that.

I was really worried that my National Insurance card was stolen, because the number on it, is used for anything like social security payments etc. I phoned them up and asked for a new number and the person was totally non-plussed and was like you would be fine, its totally safe and just sent me a new card with the same number. No one ever committed fraud or anything on it that I know of, but surely it could be sold or something to someone wanting to claim! I guess it does not have my address or anything on it.

A year later in 1997 I was forced to see a psychologist with my parents and my dad suddenly said that he felt my illness and my anxiety's and problems were made a lot worse by that incident. I had forgotten all about it and it didn't really affect me afterwards at all. I went back to the park and thought I would dread going to that bit of the park but I felt nothing bad at all. Although I noticed that all the benches from that area are gone! weird

I don't get why anyone would wanna attack anyone. Maybe they get money and stuff off the person but in the end they will end up in jail and get caught!

One thing that amused me and Catherine about the whole incident was that I had a bag with me that we had just been shopping and was full of goods! It had an expensive personal CD player and was full of new music I had just brought! If they had gone through that! Also weirdly I had no mobile phone then, they were not big then. I guess now people can instantly call for help!

Both Rich and my crime were not hate crimes though. I find it hard to define hate crimes personally, but I take it that someone has a crime against them just because they are gay, or black or something like that. Maybe I have that wrong. I remember reading a guy onlines site who was such a cutie and don't think he has a homepage anymore :( He lives in London and had been beaten up 3 times for being gay. Coming out of gay clubs or bars or pubs and people going past and seeing him and attacking him. I was just so shocked reading that at the time. Fucked up morons I say!

Tags: archive, crime, uk
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