From: SSAA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Under the banner "The Mean Streets": The West Australian Friday 16 June 2000 Shop staff in terror as armed hold-ups spiral The number of armed robberies in WA (Western Australia) has increased by two-thirds in the past five years ..... There were more than 420 armed robberies in the first five months of this year, compared with 250 for the same period in 1995, an increase of 67 per cent. Last financial year, there were 1166 robberies where victims were threatened with weapons such as guns, knives, axes and clubs and, increasingly common, blood-filled syringes. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
