[laconic]

The crime rate in the UK is 60 percent higher than it is here; you are much more likely to be the victim of a breakin IF YOU ARE AT HOME. This is because most homes have burglar alarms turned on when the owner leaves; since guns are banned, the louts know they can break in with impunity WHEN THE HOMEOWNERS ARE THERE, which they often do. So if Monsieur Cruise left the US because of, among other things, crime, he's right in the middle of it. Like many other Hollywood twits, he thinks that because he can make a movie, he's Einstein.

[Gumlegs]

Hmmm. I guess Tom is just a little behind in his reading. It's gotten so bad in the U.K. that even Dan Rather had deigned to mention it.