It seems that since my last post about swarmings CBC has reported that there has now been an eighth swarming since Labour Day weekend. Like the others, this one apparently started with the attackers asking the victims a question. Eventually one of victims were subjected to the following abuses: punches, kicks, tree branchings.
The only good news coming from this most recent attack is that one individual is now in custody. I am really hoping that now that one individual is in custody they will be able to locate the others or at least scare the other perpetrators into inaction (though this maybe somewhat hopeful).
As my friend Peter and I were noting last night, these swarmings seem to be part of a pattern of runs of strange crimes in Halifax. Last year at this time the South End was suffering from repeated appearances of the night watcher (a guy who used to like to watch young women sleep from inside their bedrooms), at various points there have also been guys who have been serially exposing themselves to others, and there was also a string of shootings/stabbings that saw close to one person a day suffer from either a shooting or a stabbing. Hopefully the recent swarming trend will mark the end of the larger string of violent and invasive crimes in Halifax.
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St. John NB doesn't have this kind of crime. It's a much more civilized place.
Oh yes . . . and the province is bilingual, too, which shows how advanced and open to diversity they are there.
True they don't have this type of crime in Saint John, though likely only because the ne'er-do-wells are too stoned to swarm.
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