Hope no-one is seriously hurt.
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[News] Manchester stabbings...........
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Klaas
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- Nov 1, 2017
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NHS twitter account reporting 4 patients treated, one serious. Fingers crossed.
Nottseagull
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This happened at a place with security guards, CCTV cameras and plenty of people nearby. Can you be safe anywhere in public in Manchester? Safest places would probably be the football stadia, which ironically would be the reverse of the situation 40 odd years ago!
Lower West Stander
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I have a flat in Castlefield and regularly walk round the public places in the city. And guess what? I'm still here.
Silly, sweeping comment.....
It is a sweeping comment, but I really don't like Manchester and it does have a "nasty" vibe in the centre. Just me maybe. I go quite often for work and I wouldn't live there if you paid me.
Wrong-Direction
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Most city centres are starting to feel like that
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Ninja Elephant
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Most.
Nonsense. I'm going to Manchester in a couple of weeks for a gig, looking forward to it. I've been there once before for a conference and walked around the shopping centre, it was absolutely no different to anywhere else in the UK and I can't imagine it's changed all that much.
Lower West Stander
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Looked round it much have you? Been to Castlefield? Media City? Green Quarter? Northern Quarter?
Don't be so judgemental about somewhere you know so little about. Would you be making the same comments if the stabbing had been in Churchill Square?
There is absolutely nothing stopping a knife-wielding nutter doing the same anywhere including, say, Churchill Square. On a busy shopping day, I'd imagine you could stab four people in a few seconds, before most would have any idea what is going on.
It's a feature of living in the kind of free society we all enjoy.
disagree.....Sadly knife man arrested not shot dead.
Before I pull out the Reeves and Mortimer handbags, perhaps I should point out that I made no reference to stabbings whatsoever.
I just don't like Manchester city centre as it seems to be full of pricks and I don't enjoy the general feel of it. An observation, and I did say it might "just be me".
Calm down dear.
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I almost put that in my OP.......................
Palacefinder General
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Great to see mental health being treated with typical disdain on here.
Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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Has mental health come into it? might it not have been terrorist-related?
Hastings gull
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Well, that's written off thousands of Mancunians
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............and that's why I didn't.............
Anyway..............
A 41-year-old black male from the Manchester area was initially held by police on suspicion of serious assault but he was later arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of an act of terrorism, Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson.
They'd first have to get past the sign wielding vegans.
To be fair, on a matchday when United are at home, most of them are from Essex. Or China.
Hastings gull
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Ok!
Durlston
"You plonker, Rodney!"
My older sister lived in Moston when she went to Manchester University. It was a safe place with new housing being built. Now, it seems, the place is becoming dangerous with drive-by and gangster shootings, settling drug debts.
Mancunians are generally extremely friendly people who talk to strangers on the trams. For a big city, incidents are still relatively low compared to some large areas across the UK.