[Nottingham] sigs (was: Sorry Michael)

[Robert Hart]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 14:42 +0100, Michael Leuty wrote:

> A small item in The Times today says that 50% of Nottingham students
> report having been mugged burgled or attacked during their time here.
> Are we living in the same city? I've had no such trouble in 20 years.
> Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe living in a gated community with armed
> guards and a reinforced 4x4 to take me to work every day gives some
> protection? (Just kidding about the last bit.)

It doesn't sound *that* unrealistic to me. My family live in a "safe"
area of Nottingham and have been burgled twice in my 27 years. Which is
once every 13.5 years, or about 0.3 times over a typical four year uni
course.

Once you take into account that burglars know that a) students spend all
their student loans on iPods, Laptops, CD collections and so on, and b)
student houses don't tend to have burglar alarms, I'm surprised the
statistic isn't higher.

Rob


-- 
Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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