For months I listened to my neighbour beating up his pregnant girlfriend and their constant fights, screaming, thrown kitchenware etc. The police could do nothing as I'd not actually *seen* anything. They did manage to ring him up, though, and said that I'd heard what was going on and did he have anything to say. Which was nice. Cue him and four of his mates surrounding the car when I got home and asking why I'd told the police that he had been "doing domestic violence". His girlfriend, by the way, defended him and said nothing had happened. Hitting kids, hitting partners, hitting pregnant women (which has been covered in this blog before). It's all beyond reprehensible, yet unless it's done in public the authorities' hands seem to be tied. And if Joe Public does anything about it, guess who gets in trouble? Yet people ask why I'm looking at moving to another country.