Hello you all, I feel awful today and I have been all week-end, I wanna share with you why cos I feel miserable. OK, here's the story: I was walking down the main street in Camden (London) with my flatmate on Friday night, not very late though, around 10, to meet some friends. I should precise here that my flatmate is a guy, not very tall but not very small either, just looking like any other guy in the street. So we are walking and then we heard someone yelling/calling behind us. first we don't notice, then we look behind and quite far away was a kid, about 16, shouting at us. I keep walking but well it seems that he definitly talks to us so my friend stops and walks a few steps towards the guy to see what he wants, a fag or so? He didn't had time to say a word that the other one was giving him a first strong punch in the face, then another one, and then around 10 other kids are coming from behind the first one and from the other side of the street and start beating and hiting him, all this happened in 5 seconds. Then I suppose the whole thing lasted a minute or so, all I managed to do was scream and ask people for help (nobody gave a shit, by the way) while my friend was trying to avoid kicks and punchs lying on the pavement. Then some stopped, he managed to stand up and we went away as quick as possible while the kids went back and splitted. He's OK now, I mean nothing serious except half face blue and feeling hurt in many parts, but nothing needing hospital or so, thanks God. I felt and still feel helpless and powerless towards this, I can't help thinking about it: it was totally without any reason (nothing to steal, no argument, etc...) except that these kids were probably bored or wanted "fun" and excitment. And I couldn't do anything, I really couldn't. And nobody around us cared at all. OK, this is not really amusing and I hope I won't spoil your day, but I had to write it, it's driving me mad. Elena ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+