{"id":323,"date":"2005-06-27T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2005-06-27T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T15:40:34","slug":"assault-is-still-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/assault-is-still-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault is still assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that I shout at a newspaper but <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,6903,1514921,00.html\">this article<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s <em>Observer<\/em> irritated me. Apparently there are calls for mobile phone signals to be jammed in schools in order to prevent &#8220;happy slapping&#8221; (or &#8220;assault&#8221; to you and me).<\/p>\n<p>Two reasons why this is a dumb idea immediately spring to mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kids can still use the video recording feature of their phone even if there is no signal<\/li>\n<li>This does nothing to prevent incidents outside school (which is most of them, I imagine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What annoyed me, though, was the inclusion in an otherwise sensible and balanced article of this paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the first attacks were reported about a year ago, their number &#8211; and severity &#8211; has dramatically escalated. Last week, an 11-year-old north London girl was raped after school by a gang of boys in a home near the school. The footage of the attack was then sent to other pupils by mobile phone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That has nothing to do with the story being covered and isn&#8217;t part of a new craz &#8211; it&#8217;s a vile sexual assault of the most traditional sort, albeit with an unpleasant, modern twist.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the very fact that the perpertrators videoed their attack and sent it to friends will probably aid the police in identifying and prosecuting the perpertrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that I shout at a newspaper but this article in yesterday&#8217;s Observer irritated me. Apparently there are calls for mobile phone signals to be jammed in schools in order to prevent &#8220;happy slapping&#8221; (or &#8220;assault&#8221; to you and me). 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