Tales of the Village - Helicopters and a stabbing

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I live in the countryside in a large village where very little of any great importance tends to happen. Mostly villagers get worked up about poor parking and people not picking up dog poo. They can rant for England on both those topics - and they frequently do. Yesterday, however, something BIG happened. I was round my neighbour's house playing with her dog and we stood in the garden watching the police helicopter doing circuits over the centre of the village, wondering what was going on. Today we found out. A woman in her 20s was sitting in her car, eating her lunch with the window open (so we'd assume on a cold day, she was having a crafty cigarette). A man came up to her, reached through the window, punched her in the face, stabbed her in the neck with a screwdriver and stole her bag. In the village! Honestly, no way! I do recall when we first moved her that there was a police chopper flying over after two burglars were sitting on the roof of a house they'd been robbing, and we have quite a lot of vehicle crime but actual violent crime is almost unheard of. Apparently the young woman is out of hospital and doing well and the man has been caught and arrested.