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08-08-2011, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | London riots ongoing...
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any London TBers following this? it's happening now. grim. BBC News - London riots
...any news coverage in the US? |
08-08-2011, 12:28 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | I saw a blurb about it on my local news over the weekend. I figured it was over a soccer match.
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08-08-2011, 12:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | it's bigger than that, sadly. currently clashes with police in 4 or 5 areas across the city. a few fires. transport shutting down. |
08-08-2011, 12:30 PM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | There's a fairly lengthy article about it on CNN.
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08-08-2011, 12:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Zaragoza, Spain | | | Pretty heavy coverage in Spain. About 5 minutes dedicated to it every newsround.
I think itīs disgraceful that people use a (mostly) justified demonstration to loot shops when they probably donīt even know what theyīre supposedly angry about.
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08-08-2011, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | yep, indeed. a sad situation all round.
quite a lot of sirens out of my window.... hmm. not keen on that. |
08-08-2011, 12:48 PM
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08-08-2011, 12:53 PM
|  | Working on his world citizenship... | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Colonies | | Sounds like it's starting to kick off in my old stomping ground, Croydon. 300 hoodie-clad morons in a standoff with police, apparently...  |
08-08-2011, 12:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | It makes me mad every time I hear about it.
I see there's a lot of underlying social exhaustion in there, but the damage done by window breakers taking a free ride is shameful, as always.
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08-08-2011, 12:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | The U.K. has more than it's fair share of disaffected youth and more than enough that will use/hijack any instance as an opportunity for what they consider 15 minutes of fame. It's sad to see this escalate into nothing more than opportunistic criminality and destruction.
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08-08-2011, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | 5 mins ago my guitarist just saw a bunch of them smashing up shop windows on his high street 
EDIT that's Lewisham |
08-08-2011, 01:02 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Well, at least they are destroying property instead of people like that scumbag in Norway. If breaking some windows, lighting a bus on fire, and stealing a couple fancy purses gets it out of their system, so be it.
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08-08-2011, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Chainsaw Sounds like it's starting to kick off in my old stomping ground, Croydon. 300 hoodie-clad morons in a standoff with police, apparently... | yep, West Croydon they say. |
08-08-2011, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by knumbskull yep, West Croydon they say. | I've seen some pics... looks rough. Apparently Rockbottom, the music shop that's on the London Road there, has been looted.  |
08-08-2011, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 Well, at least they are destroying property instead of people like that scumbag in Norway. If breaking some windows, lighting a bus on fire, and stealing a couple fancy purses gets it out of their system, so be it.
-Mike | i agree in that there have been no deaths (except the guy who was shot by police) - but i don't think it is a comparable situation. |
08-08-2011, 01:06 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | You're right, it's not really.
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08-08-2011, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | It's come to this. Quote: |
CHILDREN aged SEVEN joined in the orgy of mob violence and destruction that engulfed Tottenham.
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08-08-2011, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | nice to see The Sun taking their usual level headed approach to reporting the situation  |
08-08-2011, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: UK | | | In a way I feel sorry for the Police, they are pretty powerless these days, all they can do is restrain when inside they must feel like giving the mindless thugs a good kicking, I know I would, and if these criminals go to court they would have more rights than all of us !
If I was in authority I would unleash hell on these rioters, the ones doing the smashing and looting would come under a hail of rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons !!
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08-08-2011, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | | ^^ Agreed. It seems like they are armed with blowhorns to negotiate instead of cracking heads. Send in the LAPD crowd/riot control task force. After the first good horse hoof stomping, they'll all go home and sip tea.
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