ROWDY visitors boost central Blackpool's annual crime rate to seven times the national average, according to an article by Barbara Crossley (Citizen, April 29).
An obvious way of fighting it is to let the rowdy visitors fight each other with humane safeguards in licensed arenas.
Operation Arrival was launched, according to Ms Crossley's article, to combat a customary upsurge of trouble homing in on car crime and anti-social behaviour.
Operation Arrival should also launch officially controlled combats between anti-social troublemakers in an upsurge of manly sports.
New colourful dynamic team sports and combative encounters, properly publicised, should boost Blackpool's images as the scene of virile action.
Such spectacular athletic tournaments would attract visitors and money to Blackpool and thus launch the town into a renaissance of sport and a new era of fame and prosperity.
John Buckle,
St Annes.
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