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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:05:15 EST
- From: Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Message-ID: <93021.100515RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: American humo(u)r (was Re: Studying Me
- References: <1993Jan18.150127.21271@pixel.kodak.com>
- <1jek0uINN9ba@curie.lif.icnet.uk> <4015@wyse.wyse.com>
- <1993Jan20.231637.1684@projtech.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.231637.1684@projtech.com>, sanjiv@projtech.com (Sanjiv
- Gossain) says:
- >In article <4015@wyse.wyse.com> jmunro@wyse.wyse.com (Jim Munro x2497) writes:
- >>2500 seems a little high, I'd guess you've got one too many zeros.
- >>
- >>My home town (Santa Cruz) is a small coastal resort which by any standards
- >>would rate as a 'safe' California city. So far this year there have been two
- >>homicides. Last year there were only a couple.
- >>
- >>Cities like Oakland have a couple of hundred per year.
- >
- >Yes, I wouldn't classify Oakland as safe at all.
- >
- >There was an article in the Oakland Tribune last week
- >that gave statistics for the number of homicides last year
- >in Oakland....172 was the total. That was up by around 10 from 1991
- >I think. The majority were from the use of firearms (around 115)
- >and I think that more happened on a Tuesday night than any other (!?).
- >Some of the other statistics were also just as frightening.
- >
- The Irish Times had an article about crime statistics for 1992 last week.
- It said that there had been 41 deaths by violence, of which between 1/2 and
- 2/3s would likely be defined as murder (as against unlawful killing,
- manslaughter or misadventure, I suppose). 6 of the deaths were the result
- of gunfire. Most of the rest were the result of stabbings or beatings.
-
- These figures were for the Republic of Ireland. Another article, in a
- different paper, gave the number of deaths in Northern Ireland due to
- 'the Troubles' as 89. (Loyalists 40, Republicans 35, Security Forces 15,
- roughly).
- >
- >Sanjiv
- >
- Aengus
- --
- RBYAML@ROHMHAAS.COM Aengus Lawlor
- RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET (who used to be ALAWLOR@DIT.IE)
- "How about some of that famous Dublin wit, Barman?"
- "Certainly, sir. Would that be Dry or Sparkling?"
-