i went down harwood this sunday to take a friend for a much needed break from her studies at about 7pm and we left at 8.30pm because things were getting very out of control and im glad i stayed on coke so that i could drive us home
a few observations that i made were as follows
the majority of the trouble was caused by people who hadnt gone out for the pram race but had infact decided to go to the local off licence and buy beer then try taking it into the pubs , these same scroats were the ones throwing cans of beer around the towngate as the pubs were serving beer in plastic containers
people were speeding around in their cars and on their mopeds and i witnessed no fewer than 10 acts of stupidity which could have easily ended with fatalities all witnessed by the police but they had their hands full dealing with the scroats who were basicly hanging around outside the pubs looking for trouble
one incident i witnessed involved a man who had fallen over only for one of these scroats to seize the opportunity to jump on the poor sods head and cheered on by his friends, a friend of mine went to tell the police but the police insisted that no such incident took place and left the poor sod lying in the gutter with his head bleeding, luckily a passer by rang an ambulance and he was treated on the town gate
on one occasion the police were called to an incident around the corner and once they were out of sight the scroats as i call them started with the throwing of cans etc and the pcso's that were on duty instead of making their presance felt went and hid around the corner and left them to get worse
i drink in harwood quite often and can honestly say i have never seen such a disgusting display of behaviour in harwood and although not from harwood myself i can say that in my opininion the majority of trouble was caused by either out of towners that had come down for trouble and the scummy folk who wouldnt normaly go out to the pub but decided to get some cheap beer from the local off licence and cause trouble
i dont think the pram race should be scrrapped but as usualy the scumbags ruin it for everyone
