On our recent family jaunt across the pond I visited my home town of
Northampton, a sleepy place in the English Midlands, where nothing much has
happened since Thomas a Becket fled from Northampton Castle back in the 12th century. Well, no sooner had I passed through than Northampton got itself
in the news. According to this report in the London Times, this may mark
the first appearance in Britain of a gruesome South African crime known as
“jack rolling.”