This Isn’t Cricket, But Then They’re not English

 
BMW JackrollThere’s a new sport in Northhampton, England. It’s an imported game. All it takes are a couple of cars, a little strategy, and some timing.Jackroll Fiat

The timing first: wait for the bars to close. Watch to see which women are alone and lurching home.

Having spotted your prey use two cars to close the street, blocking her getaway.
Then grab the woman and off you go, in caravan, to some secluded spot. Do your business — however many of you there are to have business to do — and then drop her back where you found her. Or not.

This violent pasttime is called “jack rolling” and it’s from South Africa, where apparently it is well-known.

     Jack rolling became notorious in South Africa during the 1990s, when gangs of youths in cars blocked off streets and raped every woman caught in their net.
Three women have been grabbed from the street and raped since July 31, while two more have escaped in a town where “stranger rape” is almost unknown. A climate of fear has taken hold since the latest rape, which came to light when the 30-year-old victim was found with head injuries near a housing estate in the early hours of Monday.

Please note the one important variable: available women.

     Four of the five victims were initially approached in and around Northampton’s rowdy pub and club quarter. Drunk women can be seen drifting home on their own in the early hours of most mornings, according to Helen Grattan, the manager of The Auctioneer’s pub on Drapery.
“I wouldn’t walk around here on my own at night,” she said. “There’s a lot of dark alleyways that girls could be pulled down and a lot of shady people hanging around on street corners.

No doubt about it; this is a vile and violent crime. But ignore the feminists who will scream about “unfairness” and “male violence.” This is limited to a very few criminals, but it is open season on a woman foolish enough to (a) go to a bar alone; or (b) walk home alone in the wee hours, even if she’s leaving Grandma’s after a night of whist with the old folks.

Fear is a normal human response. It is an especially handy survival skill for women to develop. Not fearfulness, but common-sensical appreciation for the probablity factors in any given situation.

Teach your girls that they can’t “have it all” nor should they esteem having everything as a worthwhile goal.

The violence in the world grows apace as the globe becomes a village.

Hmm…why do you think that is?



Hat tip: Mangan’s Miscellany

9 thoughts on “This Isn’t Cricket, But Then They’re not English

  1. There was programme last year on BBC about gang rape in South Africa. The police were powerless, as victims were afraid of threats. Witnesses were also intimidated. In the few cases that came to court and conviction obtained, liberal judges gave derisory sentences to the perpetrators.

    Well, all that changed when a vigilante force was set up. In the shanty town communities of South Africa, it was straightforward to identify and apprehend the youths who had been involved in gang rape. The community knew exactly who they were and where they lived. They were caught fairly easily and then tied to posts. The women of the community then stripped them naked, in front of a very hostile crowd of the entire community. The fun then started. Watching the punishment being dealt out by the women of the community to these youths, made me cringe in fear of what could happen if women ever got total power.

    Well the upshot of all this is, that youths who had taken part in such gang rapes, hurried off to the police station as fast as they could, made a complete confession, and refused any offers of bail. Also end of problem in that township.

    BTW, I’m not advocating vigilantism. But that may start if the public feels that the state has broken its part of the pledge.

  2. pd111
    Expanding on the vigilantism thought, given the m.o. of the jack rollers, “Having spotted your prey use two cars to close the street, blocking her getaway.”
    Visualize this: A Northhampton sports club plants a decoy to lure the jack rollers into an ambush. Once they’ve commited, two cars full of soccer fans block the escape of the rollers, and suddenly from all three cars a mob of angry football fans confronts the would be assailants.

    I wouldn’t advocate vigilantism at this gentle site, either. Take this as conjecture.

    Regarding your last thought, the state has already failed to protect the public by the restriction of firearms. The subsequent increase in battery and home invasion assaults in the UK correlates to the implementation of their restrictions on private gun ownership. Check it out.

  3. I agree with pd. Vigilantism should not be encouraged, but it is the end result of a process wherein the people who are supposed to enforce order do not do so. This sort of action on the part of the people shows clearly that these punks were counting on no one upsetting the old rules of the game in order to get away with their crimes; once they understood that the old rules were over they stopped.

  4. peedeeoneoneone–

    Your warning story is spot on. If the law does not protect us, then those who are hard-wired to protect the women will do so.

    I’m old-fashioned, neurally speaking. I don’t think the women should engage in the necessary action. Just as I don’t think they should stagger home from bars.

    Vigilantes existed in the American Wild West because there were no municipalities to protect the commonweal. It seems to have reached that point in the Wild English city so such behavior may perforce (to coin a phrase) return out of necessity.

    However, if you read the full story, the police are using public feedback, surveillance cameras, etc., and think they will shortly have apprehensions…I mean have apprehended them! Now there’s a Freudian slip!

  5. Dymphna:

    Apprehending the perpetrators is just the first step. Conviction and then an appropriate sentence is more important.

    In England sentences are so derisory, that anti-social behaviour and crime actually pays. Even a convicted murder can be out in 4 years. So this sets the standard of punishment for all other crimes.

    The trouble is that capital punishment was abolished in the UK on a pledge that a life sentence would mean LIFE. Over the years, a life sentence has come to mean anything from 4 to 10 years actual time served. In fact “life sentence” as a punishment, has no meaning except to keep the populace quiet.

    Now capital punishment is an emotive subject, full of moral and ethical dilemmas. However it did set the standard of punishment, almost a type of gold standard, against which all other sentences could be measured. The banning of CP has led to a kind of floating standard, which changes depending which lobby is the most powerful and vociferous. In the last three decades the liberal and prison reform groups have had the ear of the government, leading to a complete debacle in punishment. The criminal justice system is nothing but “justice” for the benefit of criminals and lawyers. This is not right for society as well as the criminal, and it has led to the collapse of any meaningful law and order in Britain. The only reason that Britain is still livable, is that Britons are in the main, a law abiding people from long years of practice. But that may be changing. Jihad and islamic intolerance is the final straw.

    DP111

  6. DeePee —

    The situation you describe has made me a reluctant supporter of capital punishment, just as extreme situations have made me a limited supporter of abortion. Both very limited.

    In a perfect world, we would lock up the really evil ones — e.g., the pedophiles — and throw away the key. But we don’t.

    In a perfect world, impregnation would not occur when a child is raped by her father…or brother, or uncle, or step-father. But it happens. And the murky problems with that are hard to sort out: there is a breast cancer- early abortion connection that the abortion biz and the BRCA biz both refuse to acknowledge. So interrupting early pregnancies is a problematic issue. What to do when our fallen human nature disrupts the chain of events of maturation?

    This is one of those tipping pointy things: only because families are so disrupted are there not more viligante episodes in the cases of child murders, etc. I am always amazed that parents are willing to abide by the law and let “justice” be done.

    How do they do it? How do they remain civilized? We are truly amazing. Or insane.

  7. A very good essay on the contemporary by Vaclav Klaus.

    The Intellectuals and Socialism: As Seen from a Post-Communist Country Situated in Predominantly Post-Democratic Europe

    Illiberal ideas are becoming to be formulated, spread and preached under the name of ideologies or “isms”, which have – at least formally and nominally – nothing in common with the old-styled, explicit socialism. These ideas are, however, in many respects similar to it. There is always a limiting (or constraining) of human freedom, there is always ambitious social engineering, there is always an immodest “enforcement of a good” by those who are anointed (T. Sowell) on others against their will, there is always the crowding out of standard democratic methods by alternative political procedures, and there is always the feeling of superiority of intellectuals and of their ambitions.

    http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=wFYl3mgsTzI6

    A must read frankly.

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