I have been to California. I have taken a bus through down-town L.A. in the dark. I toured the Tenderloin District in San Francisco and have almost fainted on Venice Beach. In my life I have seen many things, but none so more frightening than what I read today on BBC News.Cricket has spread to Compton. Apparently it's keeping kids out of gangs and promoting non-drug-fuelled activity amongst the young'uns of CA. Now, I am totally in favour of encouraging people to make their lives better, but is cricket really the way to go about this. Surely giving a 17 year old gang member a cricket bat is equally as dangerous as giving him any other large, heavy blunt object. I'm sure we have all seen Law and Order, and are aware of the damage that such objects can cause.
On the plus side, now these kids have one more item to paint red or blue and draw some tears on.
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