Rossendale mum blasts car yobs for throwing bottle at baby's head (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Rossendale mum blasts car yobs for throwing bottle at baby's head
10:00am Thursday 25th August 2011 in Crawshawbooth
A TODDLER was left 'terrified' after yobs threw a plastic bottle from a car hitting him in the face.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Alexander Stiles from Rawtenstall was riding home on his tricycle with his mum Rebeca, 34, after visiting a friend in Crawshawbooth when the incident took place.
Mrs Stiles, who cares for Alexander and his sister Brianne full-time, didn't manage to get a good look at the car as she was too concerned about her baby but thinks it was silver in colour.
She said: "He was terrified. You don't expect someone to launch something at your baby.
"If you drop something out of a car, it might bounce. But this just came with such force that I have no doubt it was aimed at my son.
"He keeps asking me about 'the naughty bottle'. You just can't explain this kind of thing to a baby. It makes me a bit concerned to take him out on his tricycle again."
Alexander's dad Rob, 35, a self-employed computer programmer, said: "It was an unexpected, unprovoked, high-speed attack on a defenceless two-year-old. What a horrible world we live in."
A police spokesman said: “The incident was reported to us the following day and we would ask that if anyone witnessed what happened or has information about the incident to come forward and contact us on 0845 1 25 35 45 or call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.”
Comments(6)
jessjade
says...
11:07am Thu 25 Aug 11
Mill62 wrote:how would the police have been able to stop this should we all have a copper with us at all times
This is what happens when police don't patrol the streets anymore.
Yobs know they can get away with anything.
I really think the police should be downgraded to the 4th emergency service. Or perhaps they are already.
happycyclist
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2:02pm Thu 25 Aug 11
jessjade wrote:This isn't the fault of the police, it's a result of our pathetic judges handing down woeful sentences to scrotes and scum. The problem is the courts; they're a complete joke.
Mill62 wrote:how would the police have been able to stop this should we all have a copper with us at all times
This is what happens when police don't patrol the streets anymore.
Yobs know they can get away with anything.
I really think the police should be downgraded to the 4th emergency service. Or perhaps they are already.
lwg76
says...
2:59pm Thu 25 Aug 11
Either way it's easier than tracing and prosecuting the thugs.
voiceofreason1999
says...
4:02pm Thu 25 Aug 11
I mean is it not possible that some plonker just lunched the bottle out of the window and it accidently hit the child.
The report make is sound like a drive by. “"It was an unexpected, unprovoked, high-speed attack on a defenceless two-year-old”
kurlysue
says...
1:02pm Fri 2 Sep 11
ely this is broken Britain where we are being taken over by these scum bags who get away with everything. I hope this little man gets over this attack and I would love to think the person responsible is caught and brought to justice.
Mill62 says...
10:37am Thu 25 Aug 11
Yobs know they can get away with anything.
I really think the police should be downgraded to the 4th emergency service. Or perhaps they are already.