How police cuts forced a pensioner to fight crime | Times Reports

At the age of 82, Harold Wilsher has been a police support volunteer for 25 years helping to fight crime in Billy Row, a village in County Durham.
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[@keymaster88uk]

This man is of a generation where solving problems meant getting off your backside and dealing with them yourself, for the good of the community. Good on him 👍

[@BarryRerack147]

So why did his generation go have kids and teach them to not get off their backsides and let other people deal with them?

[@raoulkent]

@@BarryRerack147 It's quite widely accepted that parenting is not the only influence on the development of children. If you look at literature there seems to be a great deal of evidence that a lot of the influence comes from peers. Thus there is a lot of things that go into developing certain traits that is outside of the typical passing of knowledge and culture from parent to child.

[@elephanthuntinvesting1613]

What a sad life

[@billienomates1606]

Longest I ever waited on 101 was 1hr and 45mins I also complained to the police and never heard anything back, not surprised.

[@Paragon62]

I suspect he is a disadvantage box ticking again.

[@user-zx2sy7ce5l]

хорошим человеком был ваш президентумным смелым и тому кто его убил проклятье шайтан из Сранья убил