London Riots

[DiscoPol]

Well sat here watching things unfold across twitter, facebook, reuters, bbc and so on, cant help thinking its gonna get worse before it gets better. COBRA meeting at 9am, what do you reckon sorted by wednesday at the latest?

i bloody hope so im coming back in a bit and i had people to see down in the smoke, buggered if im going when people are getting their cars burnt out, christ no, it makes me shudder at the thought of it.

I hope all those behaving themselves in the area are safe and well,

now your thoughts please.........................

[ToddM]

Yeah it sure has been more than well covered by the media, thats for sure.

What's the purpose of the riots though, what are they rioting for/against? Some say it's against spending cuts, others say it's just holidays and having nothing to do is overwhelming angry kids, I don't know.

I sure hope everybody who lives/works there and is not participating in criminal activity at the moment is alive, well and hasn't got damaged or stolen property.

[Bailes1992]

The riots originally started because someone shot a cop (cop survived) and the police shot him dead. A gang started the riots saying he was innocent. Then everyone jumped on the bandwagon.

I hope everyone rioting and looking get stheir eyes gouged out with a rusty spoon.

[Welly]

I thought it started when a Woman was filling up her Renault Scenic at a BP garage? she wanted to put in £20.00 but it went to £20.01 accidentally.......

[sirwiggum]

Usually when it riots here they don't loot.
Mostly because the areas containing riots here the local shops are pound shops and takeaways.

It is a combination of boredom, the "thrill", wanting to be part of something that contributes to recreational rioting.

I have yet to see though a man with a barrel on his head, English police deploying armoured land rovers and baton rounds, and the rioters attempting to push a burning car and failing miserably.

[Doggy]

Well sat here watching things unfold across twitter, facebook, reuters, bbc and so on, cant help thinking its gonna get worse before it gets better. COBRA meeting at 9am, what do you reckon sorted by wednesday at the latest?
now your thoughts please.........................

Next you'll be claiming it's got nothing to do with terrified cyclists protesting at the imminent arrival of 'Black Death 2011''

[highlander]

Colleague just showed me CCTV stills of a thief - in daylight - holding up a guy at knifepoint, demanding that he take off all his clothes. The thief nicked his clothes and left him in his boxer shorts.

Same happened to a middle-aged woman, except that the gang of thieves robbing her made her take off her underwear too, which they also stole, leaving her stark naked. They literally stole everything she had.

I take it back about rubber bullets - get the Army in and get them to beat the sh*t out of these useless mouth-breathing wastes of carbon.

One funny point - one looter posted a photo of himself on his own Facebook page, where he was showing off everything he had stolen. Next stop - prison!

[FarmerPug]

riots arent nice, over here in NI theres riots every year, but the police here seem to be well equipped for it, im suprised though that riots have started in london, the pictures on the news seem shocking the damage looks terrible.

[Bailes1992]

Kasiser Chiefs predicted this many moons ago!

[steve_earwig]

What, did they get the date right and everything?

Bad things happening in a far off land again, although this time the pictures look familiar (I used to work in & around Tottenham). My brother texted me from there yesterday, he didn't come home with a new telly though. BT asked him to work last night but he told them to shove it.

I thought it was extreme reaction by a dissatisfied public to police cock-ups but it's looking more like disaffected youth taking vandalism and lack of respect for society to a new level. Send in the storm troopers.

[waue1978]

Send in the fire brigade & hose the little knackers down. Then save the rubber bullets for the few that are still standing.

They reckon that the police shooting was unfair, but had no problems trying to torch some guy's car while his baby girl was inside.

[highlander]

Or the fuckers that burned down the Carpetright warehouse - which had 26 flats above the warehouse floor, where families were living at the time. They were lucky to get out with their lives, but their homes and all their possessions were all destroyed.

Here's the Metropolitan Police webpage where they are now showing CCTV photos of people they are interested in talking to:
http://content.met.police.uk/Appeal/Sus ... 246745782#

[steve_earwig]

I'm sure I've seen the old feller in this pic before:


Edit: apparently his name is Mungo Blobs

[Busman]

Clearly the ''people'' involved in this are the lowest of the low. My view is that they have placed themselves, by their own actions, outside the law. This means that they are not elidgable for any of the protection that the law offers. Bring out the plastic bullets, or batton rounds, very big boxes of them. And fire at will. Also concider charging the ferral fxxxers with armoured land rovers. Law abiding people will have nothing to fear, as they will not be there.
I have not paid my taxes, rates, vat etc. etc. for the last 25 odd years for these scumbags to do this. How many of them have contributed much to society? How many are useless parasites sat in their home that we pay for moaning how sh*t there life is? While drawing the dole etc. that our taxes provide.
And remember, we will be paying for this, through our insurance rises. Not that these vermin will mind, as they insure nothing.
Come on police, army etc. off with the kid gloves and really lay into these waxxers.

[Welly]

I saw a news clip last night showing a group of lads 'helping' a young chap, bleeding a lot, to his feet..........yes they were helping all right - helping themselves to all the stuff in his back-pack

I blame three things:

1) Lack of respect and discipline
2) Lack of 'proper' schooling (see No.1 above) - remember being scared of the teachers?
3) X-Box type games