Bernardo It was most painful to learn about the death of a Goan sailor on a walkabout in Southhampton. It was a life taken totally unnecessarily by two teenage thugs who appear to be arrested and are awaiting trial. Such thugery does take place off and on and especially after drunken bouts at week-ends. However, crime against the person has decreased statistically even though it makes headlines (rightly so) when it occurs. The "mental well being of British society" has nothing to do with such sad events when they occur. Even a single incident is one too many and widely recognised as such by mainstream UK society. I am sorry to learn that you Bernardo experienced perhaps more than your fair share of such incidents in the six years you spent in the UK. In my case, in almost 46 years, I have not experienced a single incident of such thugery and I wish more people would reinforce such a view while recognising that incidents in densely populated countries with an active media are likely to have adequate reportage of ugly/fatal incidents. Good wishes to you in Macau. Cornel PS I just wondered if you visit Goa off and on from Macau. I have done so virtually every year since 1999 and I wondered if we might meet in Goa sometime? Cornel
Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The killing of the Goan youth on a walkabout in Southampton goes to show the mental well being of British society. Having lived there for 6 years I missed several occasions of British thuggery. Does Cornel have an answer? BC
