London riots (1 Viewer)

[pete]

What the fuck, like?

 

[ann post]

here's some relatively up to date ground level info:

http://storyful.com/stories/1000006223

what the fuck is right though.

 

[dudley]

hope no idiots here get any bright ideas

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

At it in Birmingham too tonight.Whole thing is ridiculous,can't understand why the police aren't in the middle of it cracking skulls/firing rubber bullets.

 

[evil bandit]

That fire in Croydon on Sky News now is terrifying, reports are saying that it's kicking off in Birmingham now and in more parts of London.

Apparently these leaflets are being handed out

My mate went to London on Friday for the week, someone who really looked like him was in one of the pictures I saw looting Curry's ?!?!?

 

[GO]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675

 

[David Kronenbourg]

My old street got smashed to fuck tonight. I moved out of the area on Thursday. Mad shit here.

 

[pete]

hope no idiots here get any bright ideas

i'm blaming you if they do

 

[ann post]

things you learn growing up near the border:

Some people in riots use them as golden opportunity to burn unprofitable businesses without getting charged for arson.

there is typically a very valid civil rights issue which gets diluted by the stupid pricks who are just playing the bad boy.

sending in more police provokes the situation rather than calms it.

 

[pete]

http://www.twitvid.com/4JTZH

 

[evil bandit]

This is the intelligence of the fucking idiots out there rioting

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[ann post]

All over a f*ckin gangster who shot a police officer :-/ #LondonRiots

well i dont know where to start with that.

 

[Jerry Twig]

sending in more police provokes the situation rather than calms it.

That's a very easy thing to say, but how do you get the balance right?

 

[HMD]

What started all this?

 

[ann post]

That's a very easy thing to say, but how do you get the balance right?

I wouldn't be an expert in the right way to do it, but if you have a few people smashing a few things up and you add 100 guys with shields and helmets to the mix, it gives the event a front line and a battlefield, gang mentality takes over. it would be cool if the cops apologised and staged a peaceful protest against violence i suppose, the overtime is probably not to be sniffed at though.

 

[GO]

Well,I for one am glad.Internets been a bit slow all weekend..except for Saturday night I had a good laugh..

 

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[ann post]

TIN FOIL HAT UPDATE:

theory for the evening is that those burning local family run businesses are on contract from various multinationals.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

I wouldn't be an expert in the right way to do it, but if you have a few people smashing a few things up and you add 100 guys with shields and helmets to the mix, it gives the event a front line and a battlefield, gang mentality takes over. it would be cool if the cops apologised and staged a peaceful protest against violence i suppose, the overtime is probably not to be sniffed at though.

Its gone a lot further than that though,there's hundreds out looting shops and burning places to the ground.Gang mentality already seems to have taken over,the place needs to be flooded with police until they get a grip on the situation.

 

[HMD]

There's talk thats it's drug dealers the the cops have been clamping down on recently that are organising these riots.