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THE French government is bracing for an increase of so-called "grey crimes" as more senior citizens are swapping their gardening gloves and bridge hands for guns and knives.
The French Centre for Strategic Analysis said the criminal system would need to be overhauled to handle the growth in crime by the over-60s, according to an official report leaked today..
Police may require specific training on how to track “grey crime”, and jails would have to be modified to cater for inmates with Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses, according to French specialists.
Originally posted by atlasastro
reply to post by mazzroth
Great, now I have to be worried about getting rolled by the Golden Girls.
Originally posted by atlasastro
reply to post by mazzroth
Great, now I have to be worried about getting rolled by the Golden Girls.
Originally posted by atlasastro
reply to post by mazzroth
Great, now I have to be worried about getting rolled by the Golden Girls.
German pensioners ‘kidnap and torture their investment adviser’
A group of well-to-do pensioners who lost their savings in the credit crunch staged an arthritic revenge attack and held their terrified financial adviser to ransom, prosecutors said yesterday.
The alleged kidnapping is the latest example of what is being dubbed “silver crime” — the violent backlash of pensioners who feel cheated by the world.
“As I was letting myself into my front door I was assaulted from behind and hit hard,” the financial adviser James Amburn, a 56-year-old German-American, said. “Then they bound me with masking tape until I looked like a mummy. I thought I was a dead man.”
He was freed by 40 heavily armed policemen from the counter-terrorist unit last Saturday. The frightened consultant was in his underwear, his body lacerated by wounds allegedly inflicted by angry pensioners...
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Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Instant criminal! Off to jail then so we can INFLATE OUR CRIME FIGURES TO GET MORE MONEY.
Make everything a crime and everyone a criminal and you will see crime rates skyrocket. MORE SECURITY!!! THE HOVERROUND GANG ARE COMING!!
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."