Vocal Voices

on lockdown as armed police search for a man seen armed with a knife

I'm jut glad I live here, in the middle of my field.

I'm not being funny Vic but posts like these make for unpleasant reading.

Why do you never follow up with a result or something positive?

Had to search to find anything about this. It seems it concluded hours ago with a teenager being arrested on suspicion of carrying a knife, so nothing to worry about now.

JoM wrote:Had to search to find anything about this. It seems it concluded hours ago with a teenager being arrested on suspicion of carrying a knife, so nothing to worry about now.

My sentiments exactly.

Just looked on the BBC and Somerset Live News feeds, Vic - the "incident" was in the town centre this afternoon, apparently; I think I know Acreman Street, it's up near the Abbey.

All the kids are safe, and their parents had picked them up by around 6:00. The cops, meanwhile, stopped a 17 yo boy for carrying a blade - there's no suggestion there was any aggression or anything.

All positive, Ally - sounds a bit like it was something and nothing, really.

EDIT to add: you beat me to it, Jo!

Ally wrote:I'm not being funny Vic but posts like these make for unpleasant reading.

Why do you never follow up with a result or something positive?

Ally, it is a strange one.

In this age of 24/7 news from anywhere and everywhere that we now live in these incidents do become reported, both nationally and locally, even internationally, when years ago they would not even have got reported in the inside pages of the local rag.

Sometimes, like my bus driver incident, they are just left hanging if there is no immediate resolution.

But I take your point. We are now so hung up on "bad" news that we are constantly subject to every minor incident.

It has to stop, for the good of us all, or we will all become paranoid and afraid to leave our homes.

[quote="Ally"]I'm not being funny Vic but posts like these make for unpleasant reading.

Why do you never follow up with a result or something positive?

Ally I find it odd that you comment like this on my post of a lockdown when you have not made a comment on WM's earlier post of a driver being pulled from his vehicle 'beaten & robbed.

Surely this was a lot more unpleasant than what I had posted.?

I don't find it odd at all Victor.

It had nothing to do with the unpleasantness of the post per se.

More the fact of what you sometimes tend to post.

And of course whose posts I reply to, or don't, is my choice.