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<\/p>\nA housing estate where 'feral yobs' reportedly ripped up a live pigeon before launching it into a chippy has been dubbed the UK's 'worst' by a YouTuber who found a flattened rat in a kids' park.<\/p>\n
Blakenall Heath in Walsall has developed a name for itself and has regularly been hit with the label of the country's worst estate. Locals have spoken of the fear throughout the area as the thugs – some as young as 10 – run riot and knife amnesty boxes are needed to rid the area of dangerous blades.<\/p>\n
And reports that a live pigeon was torn to pieces in front of staff and customers outside a local shop shows the extent of the craziness that's gripped the West Midlands town, known locally as Blakenall.<\/p>\n
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Off the back of its dark reputation, YouTube channel UK Explored visited the estate and had plenty to say about the locals, the fly-tipping and the general decay in the area.<\/p>\n
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"Honestly I was scared," the presenter said. "The moment I walked into Dawson Street and filmed the street sign a woman told me to 'F off' and then she started making a call on her phone."<\/p>\n
"I heard her say 'they're filming right now, come and see' and I didn't want to find out who she was calling so I made a quick exit," he added as images of battered houses with boarded up windows are shown. <\/p>\n
He surmised on Dawson Street that it is "probably as bad as the media is making out".<\/p>\n
The presenter then showed "a flat rat in the kids park" and showed the scorched earth where "several fire pits had been burning at night".<\/p>\n
He added that there around 400 crimes reported in Blakenall alone. Anti social behaviour, criminal damage and arson and violence and sexual offences dominate those stats, according to Street Check.<\/p>\n
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The estate has deteriorated over the past two years and has been compared to "war-torn Ukraine", and locals are even too scared to leave their homes during daylight hours.<\/p>\n
Some residents even fear it's only a matter of time before lives are lost.<\/p>\n
One resident, who did not wish to be named, said: "It had got to the point where we are scared to leave our homes even in the daytime.<\/p>\n
"The place has just rapidly declined into almost a state of lawlessness since the pandemic.<\/p>\n
"Before then we did have issues but not to the scale we are seeing now. It's like a war-zone out there at times.<\/p>\n
"The kids are running riot and they find it funny when police arrive. People are saying it's the roughest estate in Britain and I'm not sure I could argue with that."<\/p>\n
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Just some of the horror attacks include a home being set on fire, leaving the mum and children who lived there too scared to return, and a delivery driver who was hospitalised after a bottle was thrown at him.<\/p>\n
Some streets around the area have been left full of fly-tipped waste to the point that they're barely usable, and a councillor for the area even described told how a live pigeon was torn to pieces in front of staff and customers outside a local shop.<\/p>\n
A mum-of-seven, who also did not wish to be named, even said there was an unspoken rule that residents don't go out after 3pm.<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police now say there is a plan of action to attempt to solve Blakenall's antisocial behaviour problem.<\/p>\n
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