For those who condone mob justice....
30-04-2005, 11:00
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For those who condone mob justice....
...... this is why vigilantism doesn't work.
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30-04-2005, 11:03
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
surely he was just trying to protect his own , its a shme he got it wrong though 
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30-04-2005, 11:07
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
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Originally Posted by Russ D
...... this is why vigilantism doesn't work. |
Hardly vigilantism Russ.... 
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A man who tried to prevent a boy from being attacked was beaten unconscious by the lad's father, who had mistaken him for the attacker.
Derek Townsend was standing over the boy and holding a table leg to fend off a threatening man wielding a pick axe.
But Robert Piper, 35, wrongly thought Mr Townsend was attacking his son and hit him over the head with an iron bar.
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A bad misunderstanding with a nasty end result yes, but vigilantism?
I don't think so anyway.... 
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30-04-2005, 11:08
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
Isn't vigilantism taking the law in to your own hands?
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30-04-2005, 11:11
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
Are we talking about Mr Townsend taking the law into his own hands with the table leg, or the father with the iron bar? I wander what would have happened to the boy if NEITHER of these two had acted.
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30-04-2005, 11:13
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
My point is about Mr Townsend - as with most 'mob justice' the facts and rarely researched. Remember the paediatrician having her house vandalised?
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30-04-2005, 11:16
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
This is slightly different as he thought someone has attacking in his son and acted in the heat of the moment. Mob justice is a more calculated attack on someone people believe to be in the wrong, usually without facts. But this was a father in the haste of the moment
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30-04-2005, 11:39
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
This was a tragic misunderstanding. I don't think it was an act of a vigilante, just a father defending his son and reading the situation incorrectly.
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30-04-2005, 11:41
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
if the police and the magistrates did there job properly,there would be no need for vigilantism.
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30-04-2005, 11:50
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
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This was a tragic misunderstanding. I don't think it was an act of a vigilante, just a father defending his son and reading the situation incorrectly. |
My thoughts exactly. 
It would be vigilantism if there had been a man going round beating up children (for example), & the locals organised a gang/group to go after him & give him a good shoeing.
Haste of the moment?-yes, vigilantism?-not in my view.
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30-04-2005, 12:09
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
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Isn't vigilantism taking the law in to your own hands?
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I don't call hitting someone with an iron bar over the head vigilantism, not in this context anyway.
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30-04-2005, 12:42
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
What would you have done in this situation? If your own son/daughter was about to be bludgeoned with an axe? Would you run in, wait and assess the situation while anything could happen?
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30-04-2005, 19:10
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
You're all missing the moral of the story - that people who try be helpful end up getting hurt. Stay out of it - live a long life
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01-05-2005, 00:35
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
But someones son's might not.
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01-05-2005, 00:40
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Re: For those who condone mob justice....
A well meant action "hopefully" gets its own reward!
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Seriously though. I would prefer someone stood up to protect my children than did nothing.
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