WU LYF 4 LYF Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 Hull City Centre is deserted, no police or anything. This city is far too lazy to riot.
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 Oh great alot of the police arent trained for riot situations, it looks like its never going to end, how long before someone gets killed. Probably already happened, they've just not been found yet. See what happens when you cut budgets in policing? Understaffed Undertrained Underesourced Of course the CSO's will be able to help out right? Fully expecting to be possibly shipped to London tomorrow, truly wonder what MOD Main security is like at the mo
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 just had a wander round. Up to and in MArket square. No police presence or any other presence at all. The West Londoner is doing some stellar work covering any of this, but it's still doing things like claiming that Egypt pic is London. Just acting like a news aggregator.
boydy122 Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 A CSO where I lived had to call a local police officer to come & ask a lad to get off his bike while in the town, whats the point in CSO's.
Paid Members Deaq Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 Oh great alot of the police arent trained for riot situations, it looks like its never going to end, how long before someone gets killed. Where did you read that? they are trained just that this week was when the training was to be re-done. Doubt they will need it with this crash course. The woman on Sky News hairstyle makes her forehead look like Frankenstein's monster.
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 Oh no! The London Eye is on fire! Also, a big chav drank the Thames then pissed on the Palace!
Moderators neil Posted August 9, 2011 Moderators Posted August 9, 2011 BBC now saying it is the Sony distribution centre in Enfield.
Guest Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 The West Londoner is doing some stellar work covering any of this, but it's still doing things like claiming that Egypt pic is London. Just acting like a news aggregator. *shrug* I can't make any comment on the veracity of any journalists, I can just say that as someone wandering around the city centre, including the most central bit, it's not been cordoned off. I do know that a shop has been smashed in near the broadmarsh center. Flannels? Something like that? But that's not necessarily the same thing. I'm feeling so isolated up here, family and friends all near the thick of it and all I can do is look at a screen.
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted August 9, 2011 Moderators Posted August 9, 2011 Also, a big chav drank the Thames then pissed on the Palace! Totally worth sitting up just for this post.
Guest Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 Oh no! The London Eye is on fire! Also, a big chav drank the Thames then pissed on the Palace! They blew it up! Those damn dirty apes!
Paid Members Wretch Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 BBC now saying it is the Sony distribution centre in Enfield. Yeah, my bad. The BBC lied to me
Paid Members Lefty Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 This would never have escalated to this level had the police showed a bit of force on Saturday night. Thanks to 24hr rolling news people can see how easy it is to go out and just do whatever they please, and now it's gotten to a point where it is completely out of control. Thank god I live in the north-east where people don't want to potentially mess up their disability benefits by being seen looting on CCTV.
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted August 9, 2011 Paid Members Posted August 9, 2011 *shrug* I can't make any comment on the veracity of any journalists, I can just say that as someone wandering around the city centre, including the most central bit, it's not been cordoned off. I do know that a shop has been smashed in near the broadmarsh center. Flannels? Something like that? But that's not necessarily the same thing. I'm feeling so isolated up here, family and friends all near the thick of it and all I can do is look at a screen. Sounds about right - is Limeys still round there? Some chav from my school once snuck in the back and wheeled a whole rack of Ralph Lauren polo shirts out to his car, sold em for
boydy122 Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 I heard it on Sky News maybe I heard it wrong sorry.
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted August 9, 2011 Moderators Posted August 9, 2011 (edited) Some utter insanity on the Telegraph's live riot blog: 02.28 Jonathan Wald, CNN's London producer, says in Ealing 15 teenagers took over a bus, forced the driver out and crashed the vehicle. 02.23 LBC sources: London Fire Brigade is "running out of fire engines." 02.19 Reports in Chalk Farm from police of a man on a bike armed with an axe. 01.50 Sources: A male looter, aged around 60, has been thrown through a shop window in Croydon. Edited August 9, 2011 by Woyzeck
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