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Glasgow
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12/03/07 06:03 PM
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Gaetano Lucchese
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SCOTLAND is the most violent place in Britain, according to TV investigator Donal MacIntyre.
And the raw brutality of Glasgow's knife culture has stunned the presenter.
MacIntyre has gone undercover with football hooligans, shared a drink with murderers and roughed it with ancient tribes.
But the Irishman admitted yesterday: "Glasgow is one of the scariest places I have ever worked because the violence is so naked and raw.
"It's only when people come outside of Scotland, and particularly Glasgow, that they realise the knife culture there is really so predictable and using a knife is second nature to many kids."
On the country's blade obsession, he added: "They think nothing of taking a stab wound or inflicting it and they sew themselves up.
"They don't go to hospital If you talk to anybody in Glasgow or Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, they see twice as many stabbing victims as are reported to the police.
"So the crime statistics, bad as they are, aren't very accurate."
In 2004, he investigated the now dead Tam "The Licensee"
McGraw, Paul Ferris, Mark Clinton, and the legacy of Arthur "The Godfather" Thompson.
MacIntyre said: "I've spent a lot of time in Glasgow.
"I did a portrait with Paul Ferris, got some access to his world. His is probably the one film I've done where other gangsters say, 'There's a proper gangster.' "
But Scotland's cities are not alone in becoming more violent.
Shootings are increasing across the UK and questions have been raised as to how effective ASBOs are in dealing with youth crime.
MacIntyre said: "The streets are becoming more dangerous.
"There have always been gangs but now they are carrying more dangerous weapons.
"And teenage gangs are growing up so quickly. What we would regard as teenage behaviour now starts at about eight.
"The information overload - from porn, to drugs, to rap music and peer pressure - is more acute than it ever has been, over a much shorter period at a much younger age.
"Kids are growing up so quickly without tools like common sense.
"So you have 13-year-old boys smoking crack cocaine, whereas 15 years ago they might have been smoking cigarettes."
MacIntyre, 41, who moved to the BBC in 1993, worked for World In Action before fronting MacIntyre Undercover.
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Re: Glasgow
[Re: Capo de La Cosa Nostra]
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12/04/07 05:49 AM
12/04/07 05:49 AM
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Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 8,845 Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK
Yogi Barrabbas
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I have watched that Macintyre show and read a book or 2 about the Glasgow gangs... Yes they are a bit of a rum bunch up there for sure! I've been several times and it is a nice city centre but some of the suburbs???  DO NOT ENTER!!!!
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!
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Re: Glasgow
[Re: Capo de La Cosa Nostra]
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02/07/08 09:32 AM
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Posts: 264 Sleaford, Lincs, England
the mattress
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I'd still headbutt a Glaswegian.
They're Geordie Kisses, not Glasgow Kisses.
Bunch of kilted puffs. yep you cant move in buchanan street for kilts and assorted highland apparel nowadays  geordies, dont make me laugh, your accent is virtually scottish anyway 
"We're showin' the flag"
"The flag of fuckin' Antarctica"
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Re: Glasgow
[Re: chopper]
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02/18/08 11:45 AM
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Yogi Barrabbas
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 No not really His book the last godfather is quite interesting though,although i dont think you guys in the US would be to intrested. My pal has just lent me this book to read. I have already read the Paul Ferris one!
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!
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Re: Glasgow
[Re: chopper]
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03/12/08 08:27 AM
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Yogi Barrabbas
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Let me know what you think mate Nearly done with it Chops. It's good but a bit unflattering to old Arthur eh? Of course the same fella wrots this and Ferris' book so he has to suck up to Ferris cos he is still very much alive 
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees!
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Re: Glasgow
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03/13/08 11:33 AM
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Capo de La Cosa Nostra
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I'd still headbutt a Glaswegian.
They're Geordie Kisses, not Glasgow Kisses.
Bunch of kilted puffs. yep you cant move in buchanan street for kilts and assorted highland apparel nowadays  geordies, dont make me laugh, your accent is virtually scottish anyway Wanna fight like eh? Haway then, get ye fuckin' sleeves up, ye little puff. 
...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
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Re: Glasgow
[Re: Yogi Barrabbas]
#479407
03/13/08 04:17 PM
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Let me know what you think mate Nearly done with it Chops. It's good but a bit unflattering to old Arthur eh? Of course the same fella wrots this and Ferris' book so he has to suck up to Ferris cos he is still very much alive It doesnt portray Arthur in a good way at all still a pretty decent read Ferris is an evil bastard  ,clever though
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Re: Glasgow
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03/18/08 02:16 PM
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The Fuckin Doctor

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Let me know what you think mate Nearly done with it Chops. It's good but a bit unflattering to old Arthur eh? Of course the same fella wrots this and Ferris' book so he has to suck up to Ferris cos he is still very much alive Ferris is an evil bastard  ,clever though Bueller, Bueller, anyone?
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Glasgow
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07/05/08 08:57 AM
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Re: Glasgow
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07/05/08 02:40 PM
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Re: Glasgow
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07/06/08 07:35 AM
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Re: Glasgow
[Re: GangstersInc]
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07/07/08 05:19 PM
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Posts: 31,330 New Jersey, USA
J Geoff
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Sorry about that. We try to ignore him most of the time... 
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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