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Charles Ellson · March 1st 05, 01:39 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway

In article net.com
"Roger T." writes:

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Funny, when we used to beat the crap outta kids who did this sort of thing,
kids didn't do this sort of thing.

Oh yes they did, as you'll find by studying old newspaper reports. The
difference nowadays is that the population is higher so that factor
by itself tends to increase the amount of offenders even if the rate
stays stationary. Claims by parts of the press that "this sort of thing
never used to happen in the past [when our lot was in power]" are
nearly always contradicted by the the same newspaper's archives.
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