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But more chance of the rider fighting back.

not if they are 8st wet through 14yo badmans

Yeah, I wonder if there might not be a chilling calculation where they've concluded that acid removes the risk of the victim dying from head injury or bleeding to death from a stabbing.
If so then I reckon there is an urgent need to 'upgrade' the punishment for an attack with corrosives to match that of attempted murder. Even if a permanent scar could be argued to be a superficial wound.

It's cheap, easily available and incapacitates the victim in an instant.

Yeah, I wonder if there might not be a chilling calculation where they've concluded that acid removes the risk of the victim dying from head injury or bleeding to death from a stabbing.

All of this. Once you cross the rubicon of using violence, people will rapidly settle on the quickest and most effective tools.

FFS. Not being the most science minded can i assume that some sun/sport glasses would at least protect your eyes from acid?

I've been meaning to pick up a pair for my girlfriend, think i might add a pair for me to the cart.

Bolle do some very passable safety sunglasses for cheaps (I used to quite like my Bolle lab safety specs)

Edit: though as far as everyday risk goes, acid attacks are quite a way down the list

Not sure what the current law is, but it used to be the case that any injury which left a permanent scar of any sort was considered GBH.

I'm just gonna put it out there that I'm a freelance journalist and I call none of these hacks my peers. You hear trite excuses for writing dire articles that simply look to grandstand on the shoulders of grieving families, such as journalists having bills to pay, but I'm sorry, integrity CAN be a factor. Hell, it can even be a selling point.

I don't write for any newspapers that I personally find distasteful (so pretty much all of them), despite being approached and f*ck if I could ever sleep at night knowing I had written a piece that somehow portrayed Trump as less of a radioactive arsehat with a locked and loaded trigger finger. Having seen gleeful emails when a journo has gotten direct contact details for the ex-wife of a once-neighbour of someone who has suffered a tragic loss, I'll leave them all to it. And don't even get me started on the fact that Katie Hopkins has the sheer GALL (thanks Ed!) to consider herself a journalist.

shuffles off to drink more coffee as a tragic stereotype of my profession

shuffles off to drink more coffee as a tragic stereotype of my profession

No export strength lager and cocaine? YOUR doing it wrong...

I really am. Let me sell my soul first, then I'll use the cash to stock up!

Katie Hopkins has the sheer gaul to

*gall

Ed.

Ha.

There it is! The REAL reason I don't write for the Daily Mail. I'm simply not good enough. Bum. Note to self: must spell-check when only one coffee has been consumed.

Sheer Gaultier

Worth a typo for that alone.

Ah, press day shenanigans...

Meanwhile, in Scotland:

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sadly unsurprising. Brexit induced bile post indyref has re-emboldened what had been a dying and increasingly marginalised part of society... now they're re-entering political activities and planning month long 'cultural festivals' which seems to involve the above. All in the name of the union...

cultural festivals

https://youtu.be/HAVYZLUxaEw

Ha, too good!

Ah, the orange order, busy remembering king William 3 in Norn Ire... A Dutch immigrant :)

Beyond words. Is this the country we live in? Some serious failings.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/17/schoolgirl-dagmara-przybysz-16-killed-herself-racist-bullying-inquest-told

It's been like this for years. Same crap when I moved back here aged 11 after most of a childhood abroad (I'm half Puerto Rican). There's a deep seam of racism in this country and kids that age are at their most vindictive.

Poor girl. So sad that she couldn't see another way out. It's fucking tragic.

I'm sure there was some form of xenophobia involved, but I'd suspect she was mainly bullied because of her looks. Awful whichever way you look at it.

Bullies will exploit any point of difference to get at another kid, and if they get a reaction they'll keep going for that point. It's like chickens with the sight of blood - as soon as one bleeds, the others go a bit crazy and peck at the wound.