Terry, Good Lord, can’t you tell that the titles of these posts are meant to be silly?

Re the man who died — we don’t know. Kids here are a disgrace, the thuggish ones, anyway. One of my colleagues was almost happy slapped just because she was at right (wrong) place at the right (wrong) time. There is no reason for why they might decide to abuse someone. Maybe he tried to shout back at the kids and they hit him on the head?

Re bottled water — they report, I don’t think they actually said bottled water was better, just that those who buy it think it is. And they did mention WASTE towards the end.

Something seems to be missing from the “Man ‘died at hands of young mob’” story. Why didn’t they leave when the kids started throwing stuff, and why did they start throwing things in the first place?

There are some cities that have poor water in the US, but running it through an inline filter makes it as good or better than most of the bottled water sold here. The Economist story sort of ignored how much oil is needed to make the bottles and distribute them to consumers. I hope the bottles have higher recycling rates in the UK than here.

**spelling is not exactly right, but I’m sure you inteligent ones get the meaning.