A UK city has become so damaged by ‘yob culture’ that cats are slain in the street and has been banned. Salisbury in Wiltshire is a beautiful place, with a breathtaking 13th-century cathedral and historic winding streets, but something sinister has been brewing. Police have now enacted new measures to limit l behaviour in the town after a spate of incidents, including cats and pigeons being shot.
The issue has been causing the community significant grief and upset. Writing in the Salisbury Noticeboard Facebook group in May, one resident said: “So this evening I have had the unfortunate job of going down to the Poultry Cross to rescue a pigeon who had been shot and was hanging alive in the netting bleeding. A kind lady had already taken a pigeon to the vets to be put to sleep that was also shot, but on the ground suffering.
“And another one was dead on the ground that had also been shot. I know a lot of you will say it is just a pigeon! But two of these birds were suffering..
.. Please parents of Salisbury teenagers can you take these weapons (catapults, pellet guns etc) off your children.
This is animal cruelty and it is getting beyond a joke.” One elderly resident told the Sun that they welcomed the ban. She feared the "yob culture" and explained: "I find it very intimidating if I come across a bunch of drunken people wandering around the town centre with cans of beer in their hands.
" The move has also been welcomed by the Salde family, whose cat Boots was found dea.
