Tales of the Village - Helicopters and a stabbing
By Boingboing
@boiboing (13153)
Northampton, England
January 10, 2019 8:49am CST
I live in the countryside in a large village where very little of any great importance tends to happen. Mostly villagers get worked up about poor parking and people not picking up dog poo. They can rant for England on both those topics - and they frequently do.
Yesterday, however, something BIG happened. I was round my neighbour's house playing with her dog and we stood in the garden watching the police helicopter doing circuits over the centre of the village, wondering what was going on.
Today we found out.
A woman in her 20s was sitting in her car, eating her lunch with the window open (so we'd assume on a cold day, she was having a crafty cigarette). A man came up to her, reached through the window, punched her in the face, stabbed her in the neck with a screwdriver and stole her bag.
In the village! Honestly, no way!
I do recall when we first moved her that there was a police chopper flying over after two burglars were sitting on the roof of a house they'd been robbing, and we have quite a lot of vehicle crime but actual violent crime is almost unheard of.
Apparently the young woman is out of hospital and doing well and the man has been caught and arrested.
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7 responses
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
10 Jan 19
I don't know what the matter was with your posts. I thought you had stopped writing on myLot because I didn't detect any in the Newest Reviews List. Now I see that you haven't stopped writing. Your posts must have been invisible whenever I checked. 
I'm glad to see that life in your village doesn't become boring although the event you've described here should better not have happened.
I'm glad to see that life in your village doesn't become boring although the event you've described here should better not have happened.2 people like this
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
10 Jan 19
I am so glad that the woman is doing well.
Hope the violence was only a stray is incident.
A village to me is green green and more peaceful green
I prefer nothing happening and ranting.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
10 Jan 19
I am so glad she is doing okay. If she's already out of the hospital he must not have punctured her or else not too hard. I bet he is sitting in jail mad at having been caught.
We hear about violence in the county frequently here, but I am trying to think of the last time there was crime in this part of the town. The only thing I can think of is when an officer was shot and killed, that was back in the early 00's.
