Crash on A66 that killed two police officers and 5 others…

[bookworm1982]

Am I correct that the other victims were 5 lads travelling in one car the wrong way up the motorway? EXACTLY the same as the 5 Irish lads who died a few days ago travelling the wrong way up a motorway too? Surely not twice in a week? Is there some sort of mental social media thing going on, telling kids to drive up the wrong way? Like a dare? Just cannot believe it happened once, let alone twice. Just devastating.

If cars are stolen yes, but so many stories where young lads have driven too fast and killed their girlfriends and other passengers. An awful one where I live where a lad killed a girl on her 18th birthday and all the other passengers have horrible life changing injuries. Another awful one where a group of young lads drowned after the car flew off a bridge. One of their mothers is campaigning for this law. They egg each other on and peer pressure kicks in. If they weren’t allowed passengers these incidents would massively reduce.

What happened to the 2 police officers is awful and such a great loss. I feel a huge amount of sympathy to all their family and friends. As for the 5 boys, who let’s face it, murdered 2 police officers, well ….I have zero sympathy and I don’t think it’s any loss to the world (other than to their families) that they are gone. You only have to read all the things these boys have done to people in their home town along with their Tik tok videos driving recklessly to know what type of people they were. From what I have seen, a couple of the families are on the same level and you can see some have not had the parenting that would raise a decent human. If these 5 boys were still here, I can guarantee they would have been in and out of prison, likely harming or killing others with their reckless driving, stealing etc and making people’s lives miserable. They aren’t “just kids” - a couple of them were well into their 20s, and as for the others, even at 17/18, they aren’t doing silly kids stuff. They KILLED 2 police officers. I am sick to death of young lads these days, they are feral! I see so many now riding around with their balaclavas on, causing trouble and endangering lives. I think if you run from the police you should get an instant 5 year prison sentence. If you are out wearing a balaclava you get £1000 on the spot fine. We need to start getting tougher and realise this is the next generation that is going to ruin the country even more than it is now if we are not careful. More and more decent people now are not having kids because they can’t afford it or don’t want to bring kids into the world today. So it’s this type of person who is having kids which is why there’s so many bad eggs these days. We are getting the families who have nothing to contribute to the world dragging up kids with no morals rather than decent families adding to the population. We will be a country of endless crime soon unless something drastic changes.

I wonder why so many posts have been deleted, if not for racism? I wonder what else you'd call all the advocacy for sterilisation, all the "taken themselves out of the gene pool", if not eugenics?

I'm not trying to be provocative at all. I've agreed with lots of comments on here I absolutely agree on the main point, that the boys are to blame (at least the driver is). I don't even know what I've said that could be reported. And I don't know where there's been faux naivety, or "innocent forgetting" of what I've said. If you could be more specific I could maybe explain? Just - I'm really not trying to hurt or offend anyone - really I'm not. I just disagree completely and passionately with some of the generalisations that are made on this thread.

Don’t speculate !!!! 5 boys speeding down the wrong side of a motorway agsin. Killed 2 innocent policemen. Don’t need to speculate. Bloody obvious who’s in the wrong

Teesside's biggest problem is not community or lack thereof, but lack of investment, poor employment opportunities, and poor and failing infrastructure.

There are plenty of good families in Teesside who are just trying to get by as best they can.

Yes, there are also issues with youth crime and drugs, but at the same time there are few youth clubs, most of the parks are in very poor condition, jobs are all but non-existent, and schools/colleges etc leave a lot to be desired.

What Teeside needs is a massive injection of cash.

I’ve been focusing on the murdered police officers since I saw the news at 8am yesterday then when it was confirmed that the two police officers had died came out around 1pm Ive been focusing very much on PCs Matthew & Tom.
I’ve focused on that for 36 hrs now - you focus on what you want to and I’ll do what I want to.

We need to stop spending money on and caring about these people and their "communities". Leave them to rot.

Banning balaclavas would be an immediate start,

The Families are shameless- scum of the earth. May they rot.

I've just realised that you're not even aware of the crash that happened in Ireland last week. FFS, what a waste of time.

I am aware of that?

Just read some of the relationship threads on here. Some women will put up with any old shit.

isn't that what Rishi did? Diverted funds to more affluent areas?

Oh yes it's 'undignified' so what. People are angry, horrified and appalled at the deaths of 2 police officers. If we take the piss out of the thugs pals going on about 'baloons' and 'angles' so what. Do find some perspective.

There is no excuse for someone to be unable to spell in the year 2026. None at all. If you are capable of posting on the internet you are capable of learning to spell. Why on earth are we PAYING these people to have children? What purpose does it serve?

I honestly think it’s down to an erosion of discipline in society over the last 40 years or so.
No respect for teachers ,or adults in general , let alone the police.

In the 80s kids ( not all but the majority) had a bit of a fear for the police. Even those that disliked the police gave them a wide berth and avoided trouble if a police officer was in sight.

Now sadly they are seen as a bit of a laughing stock. People actively approach the police to cause trouble, even assault the police on camera and it’s all seen as a laugh.

Social media is flooded with idiots giving the police a hard time while many of the comments are also anti police.

There is a break down of law and order and it sadly isn’t going to come back I don’t think. I think it’s too late.

A Teesside Community page came up on my feed saying they will not be promoting the balloon release and any requests to do so will be declined, and hundreds of comments in support.

'Hearts of gold' 😡

I heard today it was a tik tok challenge to drive a car thd wrong way down a street. Don't know if it's true though. Personally I hate tik tok it has a lot to answer for in my opinion.

I do wish people will stop releasing balloons. They don't go into heaven. Depending on weather conditions, they can travel up to 60 miles and usually land in a farmer's field.

The death of 5 lads in Ireland was identical to this one.

Anyone copying any challenges have no braincells

These people clearly have no shame.

'Yes, there are also issues with youth crime and drugs, but at the same time there are few youth clubs, most of the parks are in very poor condition, jobs are all but non-existent, and schools/colleges etc leave a lot to be desired.
What Teeside needs is a massive injection of cash.'

There has been quite a lot of cash thrown at the region in recent years. Many and varied organisations have tried to set up youth clubs and all sorts of activities, either very heavily subsidised or totally free - sports clubs - football, martial arts, swimming, cricket, athletics - arts and drama clubs, games nights, you name it. Hundreds, probably thousands of people have given their time to try and make a difference.

Many of the youth club premises and playgrounds have been destroyed by the very people they were set up to help. Clubs have been terrorised by out of control children and youths. They destroy everything around them.

How can we do this when we share the same spaces as them? The same roads. The more we let the rot set in, the more it impacts everyone in the area.

This is shameful. The sentiment, and the spelling.

Okay. I'm probably a good bit older than most folk on this thread, but I just need to interject that there's a vast difference between the working class and the underclass.

Even when I was a child in the '60s there were some families where no one had ever done an honest day's work. (Though the men had been in and out of prison.)

Those of us who had fathers who actually worked for a living - mine was a coalminer - did not approve of that type of lifestyle and the underclass was certainly in the minority.

I'd say that they still are - it's just they we hear more of them these days.

So far as the behaviour of teenage boys is concerned, I'm afraid that - based on my experiences as a secondary school teacher - I've seen a deterioration in the middle class boys as well.

You'd see families where the girls were working their socks off, but the boys were lazy little sods who would airily inform teaching staff that they didn't need to pass exams since they'd be inheriting daddy's business and grandad's house.

To be fair, there were also some feral middle class girls, but not quite so many. By the time i quit teaching, you'd see girls who refused to come to school until they'd donned a full face of evening style make-up and who had the notion that all they had to do was to marry well or "be famous".

The most vicious girl that I ever had the misfortune to encounter was a solicitor's daughter.