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Random stabbing in Stroud Green Road
I am amazed that amidst the energetic chat about the best pubs and coffee houses on this site nobody seems interested in discussing a random knife attack on Stroud Green Road.
I'll repeat my posting: my neighbour has just been discharged from hospital after being the victim of a random knifing on SGR. It happened a few days ago. He was walking up SGR after leaving the pub and was stabbed twice in the back from behind by unknown assailants. He didn't see a thing and just woke up in hospital. There was no provocation and nothing stolen. Apparently police consider it was a gang intiation thing.
To be honest I am totally freaked out.
I'll repeat my posting: my neighbour has just been discharged from hospital after being the victim of a random knifing on SGR. It happened a few days ago. He was walking up SGR after leaving the pub and was stabbed twice in the back from behind by unknown assailants. He didn't see a thing and just woke up in hospital. There was no provocation and nothing stolen. Apparently police consider it was a gang intiation thing.
To be honest I am totally freaked out.
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What is scary to me is that this happened to someone unrelated to gang violence. Most gang violence is directed at members of other gangs or at least towards male teenagers and young men - kids preying on kids.
I am not a teenager and neither is my neighbour. It makes me feel anyone (male, any age) could be a target.
It also makes me wonder if any of the N8, Manor House or Wood Green crews are moving in on N4. Why pick on a random stranger in SGR?
That's what to discuss, if anyone has any suggestions.
I have a son of 13. He travels happily all over north London, but after dark, always, always with friends.
When he recently needed to pick something up one evening from a mate who lives in one of the estates off Stroud Green Road, he asked me to accompany him.
That's what it's like as a male teenager in London right now.
Everywhere I've lived there's been some form of unprovoked attack, from the 'burbs to the city centres, from when I was a kid up until now. It's not big, clever or acceptable, the threat is real, but I'm not for talking myself into a paranoia that Stroud Green is a focal point of gang violence.
My point is this was not a mugging or a revenge attack. It just....happened.
I still think Stroud Green is safe. I just feel sorry for the poor bastard who became a statistic, painfully and scarily.
Is that because there really isn’t much local coverage in the media other than the Evening Standard?
Though I appreciate and that there is less of an emphasis ‘if it bleeds it leads’ here, I sometimes find it frustrating that incidents such as these are not reported on, or if they mentioned, rarely ever followed up on.
He was driven around London for a couple of hours and dumped in Dalston.
Where about in SGR did this incident occur ?
Walking down to the tube this morning got me wondering about how may people journeys there must be up and down SGR each day. There must be thousands or even tens of thousands and over a year it must be a hell of a lot which means teh odds on something random like this must be very low.
Those seem to be the two prevailing sides. I don’t think being attacked and stabbed on the way home from the pub should be dismissed so easily either way.
I don't think it is an everyday occurrence (round here). Folks shrugging their shoulders and saying 'that's the way it is' makes it feel much worse. Because it isn't.
@Ali: Details are sketchy, not much is known other than what krappyrubsnif posted at the top.
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