Scumbagville

Have you confused this with the Northside, Dublin perhaps?

Wish we could that here.

Amsterdam’s New Scum Villages..
It’s is hard to believe that one of the most liberal cities in the world is proposing to move citizens exhibiting anti-social behavior to residential punishment “villages.”

Huh... Never ceases to amaze me how surprised people are with how hardline a stance such a "liberal" place takes on people that cause trouble.

Freedom comes with a little responsibility. If someone cant be responsible, I dont see why they should be completely free.

ThinkAboutIt wrote: »

Have you confused this with the Northside, Dublin perhaps?

Or maybe where all the culchies live on the southside perhaps

Hootanany wrote: »

Wish we could that here.

We did. They got on well in the end!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_penal_colonies

It's Endemol's latest reality TV stunt.

Think Big Brother meets The Running Man with a dash of Hunger Games for the kids.

We could do with a new australia. Or perhap sentence someone to an induced coma, maybe it would be cheaper than keep them in prision. Would be a nice head **** to some scumbag if he had not seen any family in 10 years. He would not suffer either till he woke up.

K.Flyer wrote: »

Spike Island would be the ideal place for them.

Could we petition for it to be reopened for this purpose, I'm sure if FG etc thought it'd score a few votes it'd be reopened first thing monday morning

Did any of you ever meet or engage with some of the 95% of decent law-abiding people living in some estates in Ireland, whose lives are a 24/7 living hell because of the anti-social behaviour of the 5% of bullies? I would like to see something done about the living conditions of that 95% before I would break sweat over the 5% who would riot in prison if they were denied the world cup final. Many of the 95% have little education and lack the skills necessary to deal in any meaningful way with their torment and tormentors. They are used to living in houses with broken windows etc. caused by others, where they don't have the money themselves for repairs and councils can be slow to remedy, especially in these straitened times.
There has been reference here to people being transported to Australia, often for trivial offences such as stealing food to feed starving families. In my lifetime I cannot recall any offender being dealt with in that way.
I wasn't aware of this Dutch project until I encountered it here. It's difficult to comment in the circumstances, except to say that there appears to be lots of steel, and maybe perspex glass too, not very pleasing to the eye, but relatively unbreakable. I'm sure many of the law-abiding poor would be glad to have them.
Did one of you mention FG courting votes by taking a hardline stance? I hold a brief for no party, but the opposite can bring electoral benefits to other parties.
But, sure, isn't it grand for all of us in our middle class semi-ds, or better still in gated communities in leafy suburbs, insulated from most crime, being able to tell the 95% who have no choice in these matters that they must defer to the 5% who do have a choice.