{"id":794,"date":"2004-05-29T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:30:08","slug":"794","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/794\/","title":{"rendered":"Smacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Smacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This fucking sucked.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the scene: you&#8217;re walking along a quiet road at night and some twat &#8211; for no reason at all &#8211; decides to smack you in the face as you go past. As hard as he can. No provocation,. No conversation. No warning.<\/p>\n<p>I hit the deck &#8211; literally gobsmacked &#8211; with a face full of blood.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s two guys &#8211; black kids aged around 20 clearly a little worse for wear in terms of drink or whatever. One shaved head, the other with a hood. I ask them (from a safe distance) what the fuck they&#8217;re playing at. They hurl random abuse and make it clear that they haven&#8217;t finished.<\/p>\n<p>I try and protect myself by standing further down the road and ringing the police. I wait. I wait a bit longer. And some more. I keep my distance but they&#8217;re following me.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing, I&#8217;m having a bizzare phone conversation with the police along the lines of &#8220;the one guy is now dragging me around by my hair in the street and kicking me. Could I have some police assistance NOW PLEASE?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police didn&#8217;t show up. The two twats walked away. I&#8217;ve got a face that definitely doesn&#8217;t look its best and I&#8217;m still bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, the three old black boys that came up to me afterwards as I stood there bleeding really made me feel better. Right then I needed to be reminded that this attack wasn&#8217;t about race. It was about violent cowardly scumbags, and they come in all colours.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the police finally rang back when I was at home mopping up the blood. I suggest they may have left it a little late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smacked in the mush in Somerleyton Road This fucking sucked. Imagine the scene: you&#8217;re walking along a quiet road at night and some twat &#8211; for no reason at all &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-794","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}