This is yet another case where the law is powerless to punish the miscreant appropriately. If identified, and my guess is he won't be (the CCTV won't have been working, there were no credible witnesses, etc) he should be handed over to the friends and family of the young lad he harmed, in a dark place with nobody to see what ensues.
It would nice to think that if the police catch him, he'd fall whilst resisting arrest, coming into hard contact with a very hard kerbstone, and then perhaps fall out of the back of a moving police van whilst trying to escape .............. where some nice folk armed with baseball bats and bicycle chains would be waiting for him.
I'm glad to hear that the young poppy seller wasn't seriously hurt.
Last edited by Capetonian; 2nd Nov 2014 at 17:21.