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London riots spreading through UK
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Gemüsestäbchen
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Zomba13 said:
Check the guys friends asking him what's going on and that the pic looks nothing like him.
http://twitter.com/#!/MrExposed
Everyone is jumping to conclusions that London is about to be engulfed with rioting, it's fearmongering and completely blown out of proportion.
Just pisses me off.
Joel Was Right
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They're doing this because they think they can get away with it.
I didn't mean to suggest it was him in the photo. Just came across it on a message-board. Apologies if offence was caused
Gemüsestäbchen said:
I didn't mean to suggest it was him in the photo. Just came across it on a message-board. Apologies if offence was caused
Gemüsestäbchen
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Meus Renaissance said:
Sorry too, I've been more on Twitter over the last 30 mins and Sky News (You can see I'm losing it) and so much wank being tossed around. : (
zomgbbqftw
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Meus Renaissance said:
That's the problem. The police didn't crack down last night and it looks like they have failed to do so tonight.
Apparently Westfield is on fire in a number of places, if that place burns down Dave and Boris need to come home, bust some heads and get everything moving again. Fuck.
fizzelopeguss
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Esiquio said:WTF.
That family should be sued or prosecuted, or both.
Anyone from that area know what building this was? it looks old, like fucking victorian or georgian old.
ClosingADoor
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I'm with you, but I can also understand the police don't want a ton of casualties.loosus said:
Chittagong
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Link: http://news.sky.com/home/video---to...caught-on-camera-by-sky-news/article/16045235
lol so much gif material in that video
It really bothers me that the family of the victim admitted he was "involved in things" when they mentioned he wasn't a violent person. You can't say that if you are trying to present him as an innocent victim. It just makes his role in the situation look shadiervthan it already is.
Zomba13
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I'm not familiar with twitter or picture hosting on twitter but if it was posted by him (as in from MrExposed) then why do it? And if it was posted by someone else then why is it by MrExposed? That is unless it's posted by Keith Keith.Gemüsestäbchen said:
And if it was by MrExposed and it's not him then it could be a friend of his or something. Either way that haul looks stolen as there seem to be two copies of Prototype on the PS3 and who would buy duplicates of a platinum version of an old game?
Crescendo170
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Don't take much for some people to devolve into uncivilized, opportunistic scumbags. Where's the motherfucking self-respect?
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Maffis said:
But even then, where are all the weapons used against peaceful protesters? The sound cannons and such? They always use this on protesters part of protests hijacked by small groups of anarchists that the police doesn't even bother to arrest or infiltrate, but when you got people just rioting for the sake of it, they just stand in line and tap their sticks? Pathetic.
Joel Was Right
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It's sad we can't get any footage of this and have to rely on Twitter. We can get footage in war zones, but not of our own capital
ClosingADoor
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Behaviour of these people is different. With those protests people are in a large group and easy targets for such weapons. From what I can tell the riots now are groups of people looting a store and moving on. Before the cannons are there, they are gone already.Ether_Snake said:
Joel Was Right
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That building was supposedly built around 1920 or near that period. Lasted almost a century till some thugs went to burn it down because they were bored/angry
zomgbbqftw
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-viper- said:
They aren't protesters, they are looters, protesters have a legitimate cause, these guys just want to destroy stuff and create havoc.
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ClosingADoor said:
Pew pew pew.
SolidusDave
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It's getting late, they should go to bed or they won't be fit for work tomorrow!
kharma45 said:
YES.
What a shithole. I was out in Brixton today, sort of pseudo-festival going on, splash something I dunno I'm quite inebriated at the moment. Anyway, got a lot of texts telling me to swiftly duck out as unrest was likely in Brixton, as well as Streatham and evidently Walthamstow, and soon Edmonton.
I thought it bullshit of the highest order at the time since Brixton is doing well at the moment, but looks like shit is gwannin'.
Wish I had taken some photos in Tottenham last night.
Joel Was Right
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Twitter is flooding in with reports that the Police have ordered a media black out (presumably for television news), so it doesn't inspire riots across the country
zomgbbqftw
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Meus Renaissance said:
On the one hand it shouldn't have happened, but now that it has been burned down, I hope the government and council keep it like that as a monument for these riots to remind people of what happens when they get out of control.
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Meus Renaissance said:
More like: Stop showing how inefficient we are at stopping the riots.
Joel Was Right
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Wallach said:
Haha, I guess 1930 then!
zomgbbqftw
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SolidusDave said:
Hahaha work.
Oh shit, that reminds me. I have work tomorrow. Not sure if I should go in or not.
Also, more police sirens, and an ambulance... D:
More Fun To Compute
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Meus Renaissance said:
They should just drop a nuke on London to stop the contagion and set an example. Just to be sure.
The Technomancer
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That would be too intelligent and nicely symbolic.zomgbbqftw said:
Gemüsestäbchen
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zomgbbqftw said:
... You work in City right?.. I think it will be heavily guarded, and no poor locals living in the area to spawn from their homes with Molotovs...
jamieson87
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I wondered this, there has been hardly anything on Sky News tonight.Meus Renaissance said:
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