[jambutty]

Its not just fire crews but paramedics too and believe it or not the police themselves and I recently read somewhere that funeral hearses have also become targets.

The idea of having a water cannon on a fire engine does have some merit especially as has been mentioned on Ceefax that an indelible dye should be included so that the thugs can be identified at some later time.

However I fear that all it will do is escalate the problem and the yobos would come along armed with something other than a few stones and bottles that they pick up at the scene, bad as they are.

The namby pamby doogooders would have a fit but the only answer is to chuck the thugs into prison with hard labour and send the keys on a slow boat to China and back.