The easy life?

Students

they have it easy. i mean come on. i was working tonight and it was the first weekend of them arriving - so like little lambs they huddled together doing the whole pub crawl. downing as many pints as they can cause all their mates are and thats the tradition for students - get drunk on the grant cheque and live in squalor.

and the uni's almost encourage this. they allow societies to advertise their pub crawls and get the student unions to put the beer at an insanely cheap price. its all a kosher life isnt it?

but then 2am hits. that crawl you've been on where you have to drink at least 2 pints at the 5 different bars you've been to is beginning to take effect. they're staggering all over in a city they're not too familiar with, somehow they've lost their friends but they've still got their wallet and their phone and the keys - thats it! its all kosher isnt it? you got money to get back to your flat, mobile to call your mates to see where they are and the keys to get into bed.

only they dont quite tell the lambs straight from mummy and daddys nest that there's bad people around. people who do nothing more than sit around and look for that drunken guy/girl. so that they can go upto them and ask them for a cigarette just to see how drunk a person is. when the poor student passes the test they act the kind stranger, we'll help you in the right direction. and then bham... its too late. they've taken your phone that you were waving about. if you were stupid enough to get your wallet out that'll be a few notes short too.

i can understand the fact that they're new students, having lived at home this is a new environment. living alone it feels great - do what you want to do no one to tell u off. but come on use a little common sense!

no city wants to promote itself in a negative way. but uni's and local halls need to start doing the right thing and educating them on going at night time safely.

we had one international student from india in. all nice and greasy hair wearin the foam strap slippers, nice weakling walking around at 11pm with a brand new laptop clearly on show. No laptop case, no put it in a bag. the sony sign clearly showing. the battery light flickering away. i really was about to run off with it myself if to show him how stupid he is.

its common knowledge to the locals that thieves target these lambs for slaughter during the first few weeks of uni. but the worrying fact is the uni doesnt really inform the students of their own safety, sober or drunk. how many students will go to one police officer and talk to him during these few weeks?