My home was twice broken into in the past. Both times whilst we were out. Thieves are generally cowards. They would find it near to impossible in my present home and any successful attempt would make a lot of noise and take time, cause my dog to alert me and my neighbours, some of whom are much younger and fitter than myself. It would also be captured on video.

So it would almost be worth seeing someone try. The resulting videos would make a good deterrent.

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I have never, to my knowledge, had a drug dealing neighbour. I don’t choose to live in neighbourhoods like that. A choice we all have if we try hard, and want it, enough.

I have though had a drug dealer living in one of my flats and a user living in another. So I am not completely inexperienced in what the implications of drug use are. Both caused me a lot of problems, costing me wasted time and significant losses.

The police were involved, but only on the margins. There is a major drug problem here in some of the most deprived areas. You might be surprised to know that Cornwall is the most deprived County in England and one of the poorest in Europe. The holiday makers are only here in large numbers for a few weeks.

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That’s not to say the quality of life is seen as bad. Many would prefer to be poor in Cornwall than rich in London.

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yup.
an expensive lesson

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

I agree OP has not been too clever with all of his choices. However, it is difficult to get away from the fact that, in our cancel culture, we are in the era of the witch hunt whereby you either conform or die.

Take Frank Skinner. Appeared on the Today Programme to provide a counter to Ricky Gervais, talking woke in terms of "compassion" with the inbuilt assumption that those who do not conform lack compassion.

Two months later Frank hosts his own R4 comedy show.

Actually, the show is OK. However, I can't help feeling the BBC felt the need to provide a counter and Skinner was effectively dragooned into providing it or else face actual cancellation of his show.

It had all the hall marks of House Un American.

Weren’t they reported on the MSM though? I think I recall them too and I wouldn’t have seen online videos!

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Well you said reports of weapons being used turned out to be false. That’s incorrect. Quite a few people were beaten on the ground by groups with weapons.

COYP