woof woof ! wrote:Hadn't realised (at the time) that the kids were so young, I thought they were mostley in their late teens.
Re your last point . You'd be surprised what kids are capable of.
As kid me and and about a dozen other kids, boys and girls aged between 10 and 13, were playing in Arrowe Park (on the Wirral) when a fella wearing a black hood over his head came out of the woods and grabbed one of the girls. We sh'it ourselves and legged it. After running about 50 yards some of us stopped regrouped and looking back saw the fella dragging the girl towards the woods while her sister was desperately hanging onto his arm in an attempt to stop him. One of our group said "there's eight of us and only one of him let's scrag him ! " We sent one lad running towards some adults in the distance to get help and the rest of us charged the pervert. Seeing us racing towards him he let go of the girl and legged it back into the woods.
We didn't follow him into the woods, we weren't that brave but our action had prevented a rape and possibly worse. All it took was just one lad aged about 12 to get us organised.
that was back in the 30s we are in 2011 woof
kidding mate
I think the teens found themselves in a difficult situation especially when they didn't know what was going on and who was shooting. I was listening to a report on the news and some of the witnesses did not see the shooter they just ran away with the crowd. Its also difficult to come up against a person with an automatic weapon in his hand and has nothing to lose. Anyways, I agree to an extent that maybe someone brave enough would have stopped the 2 hour rampage, but in panic situations its difficult to think unless your SAS
