Secret Vices #1: Street Wars

The first in an occasional series of things I like but really shouldn't. Street Wars is on Sky 3 (and cousin of Road Wars) and it uses CCTV footage from town and city centres to show drunken louts of both sexes fighting each other. Some assaults are quite horrific (kicking someone when they're on the ground etc) and some just look like fools who can't hold their beer and let their drunken bravado get the better of them whilst a Sean Bean soundalike in his rough Sheffield tones precises the violence by saying "I bet they'll regret that in the morning, muppets" and such like.

Coupled with this CCTV footage is some fly on the wall, as it happens footage from a town, usually Guildford, where the presence of the camera crew only seems to make the situation worse. My favourite scene was of a homeless bloke spraying graffiti on various phone boxes etc fully in the knowledge that CCTV was watching him. A police van turns up with the camera crew only to find that his aerosol was hairspray.