I know mugging people is wrong. And i do like citizen hereos, but dont you think this is a bit extreme?

Question

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080517/twl-mob-sets-bus-muggers-ablaze-3fd0ae9.html

Answer 1

Yeah, but you would think twice before commiting any offence wouldn't you.

Answer 2

ya but its so wrong.

Answer 3

Pretty extreme, but they wont be going robbing again.

Answer 4

that is some serious retribution, people are sick of being victims so maybe the people of Pakistan are showing us the way.

Answer 5

What goes round comes round.

Answer 6

Flippin eck! that's the last time I go robbin in Pakistan.

Answer 7

makes you proud to be Pakistani

Answer 8

Absolutely, its disgusting.They should have been brought to the UK, told they had been naughty, given free housing,benefits, and legal aid, so they could sue their attackers.Poor muggers,where will it all end.

Answer 9

A knuckle duster usually does the trick on muggers. Simple and effective without the need of fire. :-)

Answer 10

Every citizen should carry a RPG with them.

Answer 11

Just a tad. Maybe just keep with the beating :-)

Answer 12

It's like I was born on a planet I will never really understand. How do people live with themselves? How disgusting and miserable existence must be for so many people.

Answer 13

yeh its crazy

Answer 14

"The group sat on the men while others fetched cans of gasoline."

It wouldn't happen over here. The petrol's too expensive.

Answer 15

Appalling! I think that killing people is always 'a bit extreme'. Couldn't happen in Britain!

Wait a minute: wasn't  there a case some years ago during the height of the Irish troubles when two British soldiers were dragged out of a car by a mob and killed whilst a Brit helicopter filmed overhead, helpless to do anything else?

Our police and security forces would not stand for this sort of thing.

Wait a minute: wasn't there a fairly recent incident when an innocent man climbed over a London tube train barrier and was shot in the head seven times by police - to be on the 'safe side'?

Didn't matter much, though, as he was foreign.

Wait a minute: wasn't there a case some years ago when Kenneth Clark, British Chancellor of the Exchequer for several years, passed a Tube station barrier without a vaild ticket? He should have been pursued and tried in his absence - or shot, not necessarily in his absence. Well, it seemed to be government policy. Government ministers had the nerve to call for a 'crack-down' on crime! 'White' lies?

Recent horrors in London of youths being stabbed to death appal us. It might be human nature for people to react violently, as in your quoted article, when they see such things.

Doesn't make it right, though. It perpetuates a cycle of violence and revenge and makes us look like animals. No - animals would not do this - only we 'intelligent' beings!

From my quoted examples - and from yours - there is nothing new under the sun. It happens throughout history, time and time again in every society and not just in Pakistan.

I congratulate you on your concern. More people should think like you. I have to go now before this becomes a rant - and I haven't even started on British football hooligans - but like you, I hope that one day, people will learn to get on better with one another.

Answer 16

It does seem pretty extreme.......BUT, if the stupid people read or watched the news then they would have know that it has happend before......If they knew that the public would  beat them (Usually to death) and they still robbed people then that just makes them that much stupider....The story says right in it that it happens quite often.....And the muggings still happen....So I guess that the stupid muggers don't care that their sentence can and probably will be death....If they know that death by beating can occur for mugging people and they still do it then I don't think it's that extreme then.....

Answer 17

thats terible, doesnt bare thinking bout, barbaric, animal behaviour to say the least