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London riots spreading through UK
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Napoleonthechimp
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I wonder if Cameron, in his Cobra meeting, is suggesting we hug all the rioting hoodies. That is obviously the solution to the pervasive rot of lawless barbarism.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Asking people to go to war with these youths is insane. It's not a fucking comic book. Places are being looted and damaged but no one is getting killed. Stay indoors out of the way and keep your family and friends safe. Going and being a hero sounds nice but reality is you then invite worse danger onto those you care about.
If you can band together like the Turks did then good. People probably got hurt an it may escalate but they had the organisation and manpower to do that.
But mass scale vigilante warfare would be even more impossible to police and lead god knows where.
At least this way the police has a chance of eventually wrestling control and protecting SOME people.
If you can band together like the Turks did then good. People probably got hurt an it may escalate but they had the organisation and manpower to do that.
But mass scale vigilante warfare would be even more impossible to police and lead god knows where.
At least this way the police has a chance of eventually wrestling control and protecting SOME people.
Foliorum Viridum
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Jesus christ.Copycat_Wannabe said:
"Stripped: A picture uploaded to Twitter appears to show a man in Deptford being made to remove his clothes by the roadside"
"Shocking: A naked woman is seen next to a police officer in London after again apparently being made to remove her clothes"
"Lawless: A robber shamelessly rifles through the teenager's bag as the young man stands bleeding from the face"
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jufonuk said:
No offence of course (it's the internet!). I share your concern having friends caught up in this myself, if it was feasible I'd get down there and help defend their homes myself, but I wouldn't be joining a police line after watching them do nothing for three nights...
Your Excellency
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I'm a liberal myself and the pussyish policing and pussyish tone in some Guardian articles and on the comments section is pissing me off. These people aren't rioting because of spending cuts or because they're angry that the gap between the rich and the poor is greater than it has ever been before, they're rioting because it's fun and police aren't doing anything.
Conservatives are handling their domestic security like they're the Green party ffs.
Conservatives are handling their domestic security like they're the Green party ffs.
Mecha_Infantry
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Polari said:
TBH Twitter has contributed so much BS, like a guy being dragged out and set on fire, guy shot in the head, tiger being let loose form the zoo. Plus the Daily Mail?! Guaranteed BS!
Unfortunately I am going into work tomorrow so I need to travel through these areas, so I am thinking of carrying something with me just incase, but I should be OK
Mecha_Infantry
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Your Excellency said:
You are missing the point of the articles
Low, but not as bad as if people start getting killed and then the state of lawlessness allows revenge killings which leads to more revenge killings etc.. And if a situation like that spreads then everybody's fucked. It's the kind of thing that leads to real long term issues for a city, population divides, sectarianism etc. etc. etc..Lakitu said:
Cleaning up a burnt out JJB Sports, bad (and dramatic) as it looks on TV is actually pretty minimal in the grand scale of things.
There used to be a bunch of shitheads like these around my highschool back in Shanghai around 1995. Then the local police force did a cleanup. Until I graduated I never saw those kind of people again around the school. I think that's for the greater good and what the authority supposes to do.Lionel Mandrake said:
HotHamWater
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Yeah, you're giving Michelin too much free advertising.
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mocolostrocolos
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Poor woman.
Confirmed. About 40 cars damaged in St. Anns. Fire in New Basford (Tyre place), 5 mins from my work. Nothing serious though. Attempts were made on Vic Centre and I heard JD, but I assume JJB as that's opposite Vic Centre.JMB said:
Seems it was just St. Anns kids so far. The meadows lot can't be far behind, same for Broxtowe and the rest.
Infinite_Daremo
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Is it true insurance companies aren't covering any damage caused by riots?
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Infinite_Daremo said:
I would be surprised if they could legally get away with that.
evil solrac v3.0
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Zenith said:
can't remember the last we had a major scale riot. last one was 19 years ago?
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
SmokyDave said:
Bastards. I hope they don't go to Beeston
Mecha_Infantry
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daviyoung said:
No no, I think that the point is that these rioters come from the most poorest parts of London. Tottenham has the highest rate of unemployment in the past 5 or so years, one of the lowest amount of schools producing college and University students (my borough of Harringey- Wood Green, Tottenham, etc), large amount of habitants, and put together by all of the generations of not looking out for the kids has stemmed this situation
I know Tottenham well, I grew up across the road in Wood Green. I know people in prison for murder, attempted, drug pushing..But on the flip side I know successful guys, degrees, masters, well paid jobs, who have had to work their arses off to get somewhere other than in a pen'. So I unfortunately know what these kids are feeling, and some of their reasons, and it's sometimes easy to understand why they want to give up, especially how bad things have got there in the past 10 years.
This is why in this thread it frustrates me that people just thnk they are hoodlums up to nothing. You don't wake up one day and say "fuck it", it's a generation of elders, parents, lack of good schooling, lack of positive environments. If the state can start developing, reforming some of these areas for the good of the kids, this shit won't happen. It's been 20 years since the last riots, ironically in Tottenham too (Broadwater Farm), and we thought it was getting a bit better, but ultimately it seems as if this shit was just bubbling under the surface for years
Get the schools back up and running, get positives in their lives, help the poor parents, educated the poor parents, and who knows, 20 years down the line we might not see this shit anymore
SmokyDave said:
Thanks for the update, not good news though. Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the Meadows thugs aren't far behind getting involved and I hope it doesn't spread to Broxtowe, I live there (Eastwood)
I hope everything is fine where ever you are, let's hope Nottingham doesn't descend into chaos like London, Birmingham and Liverpool have done...
I cannot believe of what is going on here... Police standing by doing absolutely nothing to stop this shit from happening.
What is exactly going on? Riots for what? For new shoes to be taken from JD? Wow you chavs scum, this is really a good reason to riot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gex_ya4-Oo
This video is making me angry.
What is exactly going on? Riots for what? For new shoes to be taken from JD? Wow you chavs scum, this is really a good reason to riot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gex_ya4-Oo
This video is making me angry.
HotHamWater
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This fucking guy on the BBC.
killer_clank
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HotHamWater said:
that was odd
Mecha_Infantry
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evil solrac v3.0 said:
Ours was 1981, don't get on a hype about this gun shit. It would result in more people being dead. Oh, but obviously gun owners in USA are so careful with who they shoot? Not even the police are trigger-happy
Don't bring gun shit into this, as this is why it all started.
travisbickle
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SteveWD40 said:
I am comparing the culture, that's my point. And come on, Britain stands for respect, conformity and obedience, we thought in a war less than a hundred years ago, one where Japan was on the bad guys side. Lack of respect is a very recent phenomenon in the UK and I believe it comes directly from authority figures shitting on the people below: police, teachers, politicians, even priests and figures in the church have been caught cheating, lying, abusing and generally misbehaving usually to the detriment of the working-classes.
MarkMclovin
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What fucks me off is that 99% of these bastards will get away with it, leaving thousands of lives affected and ruined.
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