> When was the last time a tourist was shot in the UK? (Menenez
> doesn't count, he was living here.)
Somebody held up a tourist at gunpoint in Edinburgh last year but
didn't shoot.
> The murder and violent crime rate is higher in Scotland than it
> is in England. I don't think tourists suddenly feel less safe when
> they cross the border, because the risk to tourists is very low.
A new idea in Edinburgh is robbing people in parks after knocking
them off their feet with a tripwire.
> Two people have been violently murdered in my home town
> (Tillicoultry) in the last few years. I don't remember a
> murder in all the time I lived there- though I remember
> a stabbing.
Wasn't it Tillicoultry or a town nearby where the local kids
repeatedly pelted Santa with rocks during a Christmas parade
so they had to call the event off permanently?
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