Englishman Tries to Scare Off Stone Throwing "Youths" ... Gets Arrested.

From Rachel Lucas:

I don’t go looking for this stuff; frankly it’s becoming hard to avoid. Yet ANOTHER example of the complete and total pussification of my new favorite punching bag, Britain - they make it so easy:

For more than two years, Sydney Davis’ house has been under siege from stone-throwing youths. And more than two hours into the latest attack on his family home, the police had yet to respond.

So after a particularly large missile landed in his kitchen, the 65-year-old grabbed a plank of wood and ran towards the gang to scare them away. But his desperate act came just as the police finally arrived on the scene - where they promptly arrested him for possession of an offensive weapon.

He now faces up to six months in prison.

Yesterday the retired builder, who has two young sons, said he had been left reeling by the decision to prosecute him.

Mr Davis - who claims to have had objects thrown at his house on 700 separate occasions, and his windows smashed five times in eight months - said: ‘Something needs to be done to stop these kids.

‘They are out there every night. One of my neighbours even had a seven-month-old in their kitchen when a brick came through the window. It showered glass across the baby’s face. When these kids see the police they are off through the alleyways. The police have got no chance of catching them.’

Mr Davis’ 42-year-old wife Pauline dialed 999 when their home came under attack yet again last week, but two and a half hours later officers had failed to arrive.

He recalled: ‘My wife called the police at 6 o’clock. But [the youths] just kept on throwing stones. I left the back door open to stop them smashing it. I have two kids and if one of those stones hit them it could have caused some really nasty damage.’

And with his sons Peter, seven, and five-year-old Jimmy cowering behind a sofa, he decided enough was enough.

Grabbing a piece of wood from his garden, he chased the youths at the precise moment police officers arrived outside his home in Swindon, Wiltshire. Mr Davis was handcuffed and led away to the cells, where he was later charged.

…Yesterday a spokesman confirmed that no youths were arrested in relation to the incident.

A few years ago, if you’d presented me with a list like this:

Britain
Syria
Afghanistan
Iran
Myanmar
Darfur
Antarctica
Hell

…and asked me which of those places I would like to live, I would have said Britain without batting an eye. Not so today and I’m almost not kidding. Maybe I’ll get over it soon, but these articles just keep coming and each one is more absurd than the last, and just, what the fuck is WRONG with these people?