O/T trouble in Brighton

[maffew]

has anyone else had any trouble in Brighton recently?
I moved here 4-5 years ago from the midlands and felt perfectly safe in Brighton. In the last 5 weeks:

1) I was quite badly assaulted by 12 - 15 kids in Preston park on a Friday niight, I reckon 2 of them were old enough to drink, the rest 15 - 17 year olds though several of them much bigger than me and obviously up for kicking the shit out of someone. They also gave my girlfriend a few kicks. f*** all i could do cos lying on the floor, glassed smashed,pitch black, couldnt see, eye surgery, night in hospital.................
oh yeah and they took £3.50 off me

2) 2 weeks ago my mate got held against a wall in Queens Road at knife point and they took his wallet, gave him a slap. They did however give him his mini disk player back as it was crap and seeing what was playing on it

3) Yesterday another mate got followed into a pub by a couple of lads from a group of 7 after 'looking at us funny' and had a chair thrown at him resulting in a broken arm.

none of us are fighters or mouthy. I genuinely dont feel as safe in Brighton as I used to and am seriously considering moving out to somewhere quieter, Lewes/Rottingdean perhaps. Has it always been like this and I just havent noticed or have we just been unlucky recently?

PS anyone who lives near Preston Park, hopefully will have some petitions in local pubs/shops soon for better lighting/maybe CCTV in the park, pls sign it if you see one

 

[Napper]

Live in Wtg where the sort of thing you described is common place......mate got seriously f**ked up for carrying a traffic cone home one night

In Brighton....never ever had a problem

 

[alan partridge]

sorry to hear about that mate. f*** i hate people like that SO MUCH.

i've generally been lucky in Brighton (i got hit by someone in a club but i was so off my face i didn't feel a thing) but that aggression is always around.

 

[REDLAND]

PS anyone who lives near Preston Park, hopefully will have some petitions in local pubs/shops soon for better lighting/maybe CCTV in the park, pls sign it if you see one

This shit is happening in Preston Park ?

 

[CHAPPERS]

There's been gangs of twats hanging around PP for ages. Never seen them actually attack anyone though, we used ti have to tell them to f*** off occasionally but apart from that they didn't ever do anything.

That's coz we're ard though.

 

[maffew]

yeah tell me about it. guess it happens most places. its just never had any trouble in Brighton in first 3 years plus, then in a few weeks it seems to have happened to a few of us, all non provoked. just wondering if people think it has got worse recently than before

 

[TheWhiteRose_LUFC]

Hunt the little bas tards down and return the favour.

 

[REDLAND]

There's been gangs of twats hanging around PP for ages. Never seen them actually attack anyone though, we used ti have to tell them to f*** off occasionally but apart from that they didn't ever do anything.

That's coz we're ard though.

most of them are little kids though, all they want is to get ya to buy Cider and ciggys from the unwins for them !!!

 

[Brighton Breezy]

You should try living in Hull.

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

Never had any trouble in 25 years.

I find the secret is to look shadier than the the potential muggers.

Hoodee up.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Quiet right, looking shady keeps them away which is why most kids wear their hoods up nowadays, they act as shields.

It's a shame that most on here decided they do it because they are trouble makers.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I was attacked by a gang of Chavs a couple of weeks ago. Not too badly hurt but wasted an evening in casualty and down Hove police station giving a statement.

The police had my attackers in custody as they'd gone on a rampage. Apparently they're well known and are about to receive asbo's.

The worse thing is now I spend my time looking over my shoulder.

 

[Soton Seagull]

I used to receive a fairly regular kicking from the gang of oiks that hung around Conway Court in Hove circa 1992-94. I was once quite literaly kicked in to Hove General. They were all a year below me at school and felt taht 6 or so against 1 was fair and proved some kind of point. Last I heard one of them was in prison and another was a herion addict - Karma and all that!

I also remember being mugged at knifepoint in Churchill square when I was about 15/16 (12 years or so back) and being told that if we had been Foreign students we would have been 'cut up'.

Just goes to show it has always been around.

 

[Marc]

Quiet right, looking shady keeps them away which is why most kids wear their hoods up nowadays, they act as shields.

It's a shame that most on here decided they do it because they are trouble makers.

"My Hoodie is like a Shield Of Steel"

I too adopt this stance in Shoreham/Southwick on a cold autumns evening stroll home from the boozer...although i always have a walkman on so if they did come up behind me I wouldnt have a clue!

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

You should try living in Hull.

I know that feeling, mate. I lived in Hillfields in Coventry for a while...

 

[Brighton Breezy]

My housemate at uni was from near Highfield Road and he said Cov was rough.

The first week I lived in Hull someone broke into our place with syringes full of blood.

Then someone got killed in the pub at the end of the road.

Some women (former miss Hull, was all over the news) got murdered and stored in a cupboard near my house).

Its nice to be back in Sussex.

 

[Harold]

We got the train to Cov to watch the Albion there and had the misfortune to walk through the Spond estate just outside the Centre. It was horrendous (full of drug addicts) and a definite case for speedwalking to the pub on our list we were heading for (Malt Shovel I think it was called, well rough but still in the beer guide for some reason).

 

[Brighton Breezy]

My housemate had his family home burgled numerous times by kids on the same street. Police said they couldnt do a thing.

In Hull a friend of mine was burgled and someone tried to sell him his own stuff back. When he went to the police they said they could not prove it was his. The guy was his neighbour.

 

[CHAPPERS]

When I went to Uni we made the brilliant decision to drink in the local boozers and not the shit ones that all the idiot stoodents were in.

Result? First crimbo away from our houses all of the street got robbed apart from 3, the ones that me and the dudes lived in.

SCORE!!

 

[Brighton Breezy]

We used to drink in our local as well and got on well with our neighbours mainly because we hated students as much as they did.