Vigilantes

[luka]

nonce hunters as a class are not really people you warm to i dont think
specially as a lot of the 'nonces' clearly have special needs eg humpty dumpty nonce and goblin nonce

 

[IdleRich]

Action films are pretty much based on vigilantes - a large number are about a guy whose daughter/wife/whatever has been kidnapped/murdered/raped and he has to take the law into his own hands to save them/avenge them/entertain us and another strand is about the maverick cop who just won't play by the rules but who gets results - whatever those pen pushers at city hall think about his methods - a vigilante in other words, especially after the obligatory "give me your gun and badge" scene.

OK you've also got the special forces, James Bond type things of state sanctioned violence, so it's not ALL Action films, but it's a decent proportion.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The Vigilante Hunter, meta-vigilante

 

[IdleRich]

nonce hunters as a class are not really people you warm to i dont think
specially as a lot of the 'nonces' clearly have special needs eg humpty dumpty nonce and goblin nonce

My friend is a good runner, part of a club I guess, and one time they met up and they were all talking about how one of their members had been busted in a paedo-sting like that. He killed himself I think.

 

[IdleRich]

The Vigilante Hunter, meta-vigilante

Isn't that The Punisher?

 

[luka]

does the pubisher hunt vigilantes? i thought it was the usual street punks and bikers swinging lengths of chain

 

[william_kent]

 

[luka]

Martin did that one already

 

[william_kent]

oops, meant to post in the "bitchin' images" thread

 

[IdleRich]

does the pubisher hunt vigilantes? i thought it was the usual street punks and bikers swinging lengths of chain

Maybe it's not The Punisher I'm thinking of, but isn't there a character whose family were killed in a battle between super-heroes and he goes out to get revenge for all such collateral damage by killing superheroes?

 

[luka]

oh, that does ring a bell actually. it's not The Publisher though.

 

[IdleRich]

Oh that's not the Punisher... who is it then?

 

[luka]

a fairly minor character i think, like a sub-plot to some larger story arc....

 

[luka]

did just find this though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher_Kills_the_Marvel_Universe

 

[WashYourHands]

Surrey nonce hunters

 

[shakahislop]

firends of mine have been impressed on trips to tobago and jamacia by the punishment beatings meted out to theives. not that it was ever established that they were theives. someone shouted thief and everyone in the vicinity beat them half to death.

yeah right. these are the examples that come to mind for me when you broaden this discussion out to places like that. can think of specific examples eg in kabul where someone was beaten to death on the street in the town center because of a rumour that she had desecrated a koran, totally untrue but the guys on the street kicked her to death. her name was farkhunda. i was in a town called briala slatina or something like that in northern bulgaria and someone beat a roma guy to death in the village square. no idea what the story was there. my town in bangladesh had a mob justice thing going on where they surrounded the police station and killed six policement i think. it totally depends on where you're talking about but in general a legal system seems preferable to me.

 

[shakahislop]

yeah right. these are the examples that come to mind for me when you broaden this discussion out to places like that. can think of specific examples eg in kabul where someone was beaten to death on the street in the town center because of a rumour that she had desecrated a koran, totally untrue but the guys on the street kicked her to death. her name was farkhunda. i was in a town called briala slatina or something like that in northern bulgaria and someone beat a roma guy to death in the village square. no idea what the story was there. my town in bangladesh had a mob justice thing going on where they surrounded the police station and killed six policement i think. it totally depends on where you're talking about but in general a legal system seems preferable to me.

not that i think anyone here is suggesting the opposite

 

[luka]

all those stories you hear about whatsapp rumours in India leading to Muslims getting lynched.... Amin disrespected a cow, let's do him

 

[shakahislop]

No it was. It was on the news every night at one point, it's the first thing I think of even now when people say Blackbird Leys, they would have reporters in the estates talking about illegal races with stolen cars... in my head it was like The Fast and Furious films (or rather when they came out I thought "ah they made a film about Blackbird Leys") but I'm sure it was exaggerated.

that's actually kind of cool. seems to be less of a thing these days. maybe its harder to nick cars. i don't see any burnt out joy-ridden cars when i'm out on my bike in the countryside anymore.

 

[IdleRich]

It was a massive thing that everyone was talking about at school and on local news every night, with hindsight I wonder what was really going on and what was exaggerated but at the time it seemed as though the rule of law had pretty much collapsed and Mad Max was being reenacted in a hitherto unheard of suburb of Oxford.