Originally Posted by: AkiraI wish I lived in your neighbourhood.

I hate the neighbourhood I live in. I even get ridiculed by gangs of youths as I walk down the street, just because I have long hair.

In my town there's this stupid "happy slapping" thing going on. Basically it's where some people beat you up whilst filming it on their mobile camera phones, and then send it to their friends. I don't get the mentality of some of the a**holes who think it's fun to do stuff like that, and why the hell it iscalled "happy slapping".

A friend of mine almost became a victim of it, but fortunatly he's one belt away from black in Taikwondo; a spinning kick to the face knocked one of them clean off their feet and the rest ran off.

A few weeks ago, in the news paper there was a story about how an 8 year old kid had a brick thrown at his face by a 16 year old. And another of how 11 teenage girls beat a 12 year old almost to death.

I hate 99.8% of the people who live in my town.

That type of crap is going on in Dublin at the moment too. Just do what I did, take martial arts lessons. The only way to stop this from happening to you is to be able to face the music head on. I've been training for over 15 years now and I've had to kick a few arses along the way, it always turned out well for me and very bad for the other guy(s). Used to have long hair for years but that never caused any trouble. Once people know that you can handle yourself they will steer clear. It's no fun for them if they think they will come out of an encounter with broken bones. My advice, start training ASAP.