Terror as 60 Fight in the Street

wovlad · Post by **wovlad** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:18 pm

http://www.thisisbolton.co.uk/display.v ... street.php

Strange article as it appears forget that the fight took place outside of the new Islamic College on Williows Lane / Hawthorne Rd. On the site of what used to be Mount St Jospehs Convent. It was on a fence outside of which the racist graffiti was written.

Maybe the reporter didn't want to fan the flames of racism. If so I applaud their tact. However I don't think it was a mere coincidence.

The majority of residents in the Willows area of Deane voted against the college being allowed to purchase the old convent. However this was ignored by Bolton Council. Tempers were certainly high amongst former Catholic pupils of Mount St Josephs school and this may have fueled the incident. I have to say they would have been higher had it been purchased by a similar group of Protestant faith. However that is by the by. The fact remains that an incident like this was in my opinion always likely to happen. The fight has been rightly condemned by both sides. So hopefully its out the system and will be
a one off and not something that repeats itself.

Anyone else any thoughts on this matter

Lennon · Post by **Lennon** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:23 pm

Yeah. Religious people are stupid. Imagine having a fight with someone over whose imaginary friend is better.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:27 pm

Same old story. Mindless, teenage yobs just too happy to get into anything like this. I haven't forgotten the last fiasco on Deane and Daubhill going back a few years. Houses were getting wrecked. My brother, who lived there at the time sat on his front wall with a cricket bat to protect his. It was bad news with all the residents terrified as yobs ran riot for about three days. Whites and Asians were just as bad as each other.

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:36 am

wovlad wrote:http://www.thisisbolton.co.uk/display.v ... street.php
On the site of what used to be Mount St Jospehs Convent.

Tempers were certainly high amongst former Catholic pupils of Mount St Josephs school and this may have fueled the incident.

Blimey ... those girls !! Tssk.

A few gave me a hard time (!?@) in my day, but they'd NEVER have done this.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:02 am

Lennon wrote:Yeah. Religious people are stupid. Imagine having a fight with someone over whose imaginary friend is better.

Nailed it.

wovlad · Post by **wovlad** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:47 am

Lennon wrote:Yeah. Religious people are stupid. Imagine having a fight with someone over whose imaginary friend is better.

couldn't have put it better myself

davroduk · Post by **davroduk** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:18 pm

Lennon wrote:Yeah. Religious people are stupid. Imagine having a fight with someone over whose imaginary friend is better.

In A Nutshell.