[ManicMiner]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -home.html

My husband, Laurence, was in bed, our eight-year-old daughter, Rosa, and five-year-old son, Louis, were fast asleep and our tree-lined road in a middle-class suburb of North London seemed as safe and quiet as it always did.

Anyway, the house gets burgled. An awful experience, but superfluous details to pad the article (plus set in Mail land's typical leafy suburb)makes me roll my eyes.

All that was holding the door was my husband, a kind and gentle solicitor of 5ft 8in.

But the level of violence was beyond belief. Our ordinary terrace four-bedroom house in a suburban street was neither rough nor grand. It seemed an unlikely location for an extraordinary act of random violence.

And if these urban terrorists are ever caught they'll get a pat on the head and a nice ankle bracelet; instead of 15 years hard labour.
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- Mark R, Coventry UK, 7/4/2009 4:52

Can we please have less of the 'Middle Class' stuff . This is a family attacked in their home. Working class or Middle class is really irrelevant although I am sure that so called Middle Class people are much less likely to suffer such an incident
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- Paul Taylor, shenzhen China, 7/4/2009 8:23

Love the pro-gun comments. Such an naive-idealistic world they live in

[Fozzy]

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All that was holding the door was my husband, a kind and gentle solicitor of 5ft 8in.

I bet in any other context he'd be an evil blood-sucking legal aid fat cat human-rights promoting piece of scum leaching off the taxpayer

[Picklechu2]

So according the comments, we live IN a police state, but the police are underfunded and powerless?

/headsplode!

Some of these mopes need to get some Judge Dredd reading done. See some zero tolerance and how REAL police do it!

[Refusion]

Would this article have seen the light of day if it had been a, shock horror, working class family's home that had been burgled?

I really don't think so.

[Dan Widdecombe]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -seat.html

"The man was arrested on suspicion of gross indecency; one woman was arrested on suspicion of gross indecency, being drunk on an aircraft, and failing to obey instructions of the crew; the other woman was arrested on suspicion of being drunk on an aircraft.'

Mother-of-one Miss Irby, who is the estate agent daughter of Old Etonian banker Paul Aschan, was at her family's £600,000 Fulham home.

'Clare is a wreck, she's devastated,' a family member said. 'There was no sex. The whole thing is untrue. She is not that sort of person."

Fucking genius!

[Mr Mordon]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -seat.html

"The man was arrested on suspicion of gross indecency; one woman was arrested on suspicion of gross indecency, being drunk on an aircraft, and failing to obey instructions of the crew; the other woman was arrested on suspicion of being drunk on an aircraft.'

Mother-of-one Miss Irby, who is the estate agent daughter of Old Etonian banker Paul Aschan, was at her family's £600,000 Fulham home.

'Clare is a wreck, she's devastated,' a family member said. 'There was no sex. The whole thing is untrue. She is not that sort of person."

Fucking genius!

hang on! Unmarried mother AND middle class!

Does...not...comp...ute....

[Carousel]

EXTERMINATE!

[Refusion]

hang on! Unmarried mother AND middle class!

Does...not...comp...ute....

I am sure that I can hear the heads of a few readers exploding as they try and process this.

[somewhat_nifty]

I think 'upper-middle class' trumps 'single mother' every time. The Mail reserves its ire for those single mothers who are not fortunate enough to have been born to old-Etonian fathers. The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Paul]

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[ManicMiner]

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Wonder if the ratings have been manipulated while they were down?

[Paul]

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Wonder if the ratings have been manipulated while they were down?

gone again! I wonder what is going on? Injunction from Daddy?

[horacegoesskiing]

Love the headline from that link at the top:

Every homeowner's nightmare: A mother describes the terrifying night seven burglars tried to smash into her family home

So then, as someone who rents a one bedroom flat (ie not a family home), does that make me immune to this sort of thing?

[MikeSC]

Love the headline from that link at the top:

Every homeowner's nightmare: A mother describes the terrifying night seven burglars tried to smash into her family home

So then, as someone who rents a one bedroom flat (ie not a family home), does that make me immune to this sort of thing?

I think the lesson the Mail is trying to teach is that people are expendable- but property is sacrosanct! Damage to, I dunno, chandeliers and china and whatever else the middle-classes have is infinitely worse than working class chavs-to-be getting killed.

[davidjay]

I think the lesson the Mail is trying to teach is that people are expendable- but property is sacrosanct! Damage to, I dunno, chandeliers and china and whatever else the middle-classes have is infinitely worse than working class chavs-to-be getting killed.

No, property is sacrosanct provided you own it. If you rent a flat (or worse, are on benefits) you're expendable.