NFR - Riots in North London

[CorkCity]

If anyone is going looting tonight could you pick me up a 3D telly, I will give you a good price !

[RidgeRider]

Lets hope they get a handle on this and throw the lot of them in jail. Seems all it takes is a thin veil of outrage to bring out criminal and immoral behavior in some communities.

Are the communities that are being affected seeing any leadership within them speak out against the behavior of their citizens?

[The Equalizer]

If anyone is going looting tonight could you pick me up a 3D telly, I will give you a good price !

I'd like to get one of those iPad 2 thingies and one of those Amazon Kindle thingies, perhaps we could arrange a looting session in the Putney Exchange this evening?

[MJG]

If anyone is going looting tonight could you pick me up a 3D telly, I will give you a good price !

I'd like to get one of those iPad 2 thingies and one of those Amazon Kindle thingies, perhaps we could arrange a looting session in the Putney Exchange this evening?

Putney!!! No way, any riots are going to be at the Arndale (oh sorry... Southside) in Wandsworth.

[CorkCity]

I might loot Craven Cottage, starting with the MJ statue then nick all the white shorts and replace them with our traditional black.

[Mitch]

If you're rioting because you feel aggrieved by the police/government etc. you don't take your time to try on a few pair of trainers in Foot Locker.

[clintclintdeuce]

Isnt there such thing as karma? You know youre never going to win a bet watching that tv, and youll probably break your foot tripping on a crack in the pavement in those new shoes.

[Lighthouse]

Kicking off again in Hackney already. Kiddies half term.

[JBH]

The Local council in Tottenham have said that after carrying out a survey of the area hit by the riots today theyassess that the rioters have made 15 million pounds worth of improvements.

[FatFreddysCat]

Strange that in places like Haiti and New Orleans looting was rife, but none in Japan.

[Blingo]

Who would want a radioactive tv Fredster? lol

[ImperialWhite]

Strange that in places like Haiti and New Orleans looting was rife, but none in Japan.

Not that strange! Haiti and New Orleans are both desperately poor, Japan is one of the wealthiest nations on the planet.

I confidently predict that rioting in South Kensington will be limited for the same reasons.

[JBH]

Strange that in places like Haiti and New Orleans looting was rife, but none in Japan.

That is because all of the TV's had water damage

[RidgeRider]

Strange that in places like Haiti and New Orleans looting was rife, but none in Japan.

Not that strange! Haiti and New Orleans are both desperately poor, Japan is one of the wealthiest nations on the planet.

I confidently predict that rioting in South Kensington will be limited for the same reasons.

United States is one of the wealthiest nations as well but we have had issues in places like Los Angeles and other cities. We had some issues up on Milwaukee recently with targeted racial violence by young thugs.

Japan has issues with poverty as well, especially amongst the age groups that most likely take to looting and violence, but you don't see looting there. I'm not trying to equate Japan's poverty issues with say Haiti's but there are places throughout the globe that are more impoverished than London where we just don't see things like what we are seeing in London right now. Poverty is certainly part of the problem but there are others issues at hand as well.

[Lighthouse]

The riots are not poor people who are very cross. They are too busy trying to make a living. Kiddies and drunks are the ones' giving it large' as we in the ghetto like to say. Cus we are tuff innit.

[MJG]

Just got in from work and watching it on sky and i have seen the same person in three different clips just being a yob. Threw something at the police from about six feet away, smashed a bus window and then breaks a ladbrokes window.
The police should just go in smash some heads and throw them all in the back of a van and give them a good 1970`s kicking.
Rant over.

[FatFreddysCat]

Just got in from work and watching it on sky and i have seen the same person in three different clips just being a yob. Threw something at the police from about six feet away, smashed a bus window and then breaks a ladbrokes window.
The police should just go in smash some heads and throw them all in the back of a van and give them a good 1970`s kicking.
Rant over.

Did you see the two Irish blokes who broke into Ladbrokes? ....... Lost Fifty quid.

[MJG]

Just got in from work and watching it on sky and i have seen the same person in three different clips just being a yob. Threw something at the police from about six feet away, smashed a bus window and then breaks a ladbrokes window.
The police should just go in smash some heads and throw them all in the back of a van and give them a good 1970`s kicking.
Rant over.

Did you see the two Irish blokes who broke into Ladbrokes? ....... Lost Fifty quid.

the same ones who were taking all the single trainers from JD Sports yesterday.

[The Doctor]

Threw something at the police from about six feet away

I've always wondered why the Police don't just do something about these folks - hit 'em with a baton round or something.  They're all tooled up for the job, so why not?  I know the obvious counter-argument is because the rioters are looking for the reaction, which will inevitably lead to further violence.  But it's not like having got no reaction despite wanging a paving slab the offender's going to say "Oh well, no fun to be had here.  If I hurry up I can be home in time for Corrie...", is it?  No, he's going to keep on smashing stuff up.

Or as my old Mum says "If you can't take it, don't dish it out..."

[HatterDon]

I've been reading this thread without comment since it started. It's not like riots are unknown in London, so this one didn't surprise me much.

I did want to point out to all the Brits that have contributed to this excellent thread that you are lucky that you're Brits and that this event took place in Britain. Had it occurred in the USA and/or had Yanks other than RR contributed to it, the third post in the thread would have been Jack complaining that it was political and that we'd all have to be nice and, then, three "what are you talking about" posts later, it would have been locked. We'd have had six posts instead of six pages of posts. After all, everything in this thread that isn't political is racial, but it's grown ups talking -- and grownups moderating -- and so things continue apace. It's just the sort of conversation I'd expect to hear in a decent pub of a lunchtime.

Glad to see free speech still lives on FofF. Well done all commentators.