Sep. 20th, 2006
Angry and upset in equal parts...
Sep. 20th, 2006 09:27 pmBromsgrove, where I live, is a reasonably ordinary West Midlands market town where nothing much happens really. We have a couple of big estates where there is sometimes trouble, but usually nothing horrendous.
But yesterday evening at 7.30pm apparently a gang of youths decided it was 'fun' to torment and bully a local eccentric chap until he fell, hit his head and died.
Now this guy was a lovely man, harmless, cheery, always chatting to anyone who sat on one of the many benches in the pedestrian High Street. He was a REAL eccentric who dressed in flamboyant waistcoats, smoked a meerschaum pipe and was known as 'Doctor Who' because of his very long striped scarf, like the Tom Baker version. I chatted to him occasionally as he used to attend a drop in centre near my house, and he had an INCREDIBLE knowledge and interest in old films.
The police have five youths in custody, and are treating it as a murder enquiry. Their BMX bikes are still scattered where they abandoned them outside the supermarket where it happened.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH THEM?
I am seriously upset and seriously angry, as are the majority of the townsfolk who knew him.
But yesterday evening at 7.30pm apparently a gang of youths decided it was 'fun' to torment and bully a local eccentric chap until he fell, hit his head and died.
Now this guy was a lovely man, harmless, cheery, always chatting to anyone who sat on one of the many benches in the pedestrian High Street. He was a REAL eccentric who dressed in flamboyant waistcoats, smoked a meerschaum pipe and was known as 'Doctor Who' because of his very long striped scarf, like the Tom Baker version. I chatted to him occasionally as he used to attend a drop in centre near my house, and he had an INCREDIBLE knowledge and interest in old films.
The police have five youths in custody, and are treating it as a murder enquiry. Their BMX bikes are still scattered where they abandoned them outside the supermarket where it happened.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH THEM?
I am seriously upset and seriously angry, as are the majority of the townsfolk who knew him.