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Brixton chitter chatter and news and updates (Feb-Aug 2011)

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Kanda said:
They've put a CSO on walkabout up Brixton Hill... my mother could outrun him! Other than that, fuck all I reckon. Probably happy to stand back and let dickheads shoot the shit out of each other.
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Is he on the chubby side and wearing glasses?
 
Kanda said:
Yeah, that's the one. Keeps sitting down and talking to me outside the pub!

When are people going to realise what a kindle is? Fucking interupting my reading!! :)
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He's been around for years. His favourite haunt seems to be pubs/eateries

Funnily enough, I only saw a live Kindle for the first time yesterday. Some guy outside a pub had one ;)
 
Kanda said:
Yeah, that's the one. Keeps sitting down and talking to me outside the pub!

When are people going to realise what a kindle is? Fucking interupting my reading!! :)
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I'd wondered where he'd gone. His beat was Blenheim Gardens estate for a long while.
 
There's several TV vans and lots of people with cameras outside now - and the police of course. I haven't spoken to my neighbours yet, several of whom have teenage sons, but I suppose we will find out what happened to a certain extent. It's just horribly horribly sad and so pointless.
 
memespring said:
There's a Lambeth CPCG meeting tonight: http://www.lambethcpcg.org.uk/

Tuesday 7 June 2011 at 6:00pm

at

The Karibu Centre,

7 Grehsam Road SW9

I might try and pop along if I can get there in time.
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I may try to get to that.

The trouble is that the police CAN'T fix this. All they can do is respond and keep a lid on things. The real problem has to be fixed by ALL the rest of us, because by the time the police can get involved it's already too late. The only additional things that the police can do will most likely only make things worse.
 
Winot said:
I'd like some reassurance that the police are taking this seriously and have a strategy for dealing with it. I don't expect them to be able to wave a magic wand and make it go away, but I wonder whether the time has come for a public meeting at which the police could give the public some reassurance.

What do people think?
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I believe that's exactly what shouldn't happen. There is a serious problem that goes far deeper than a few out of control youths. It's a problem with the way we deal with young people. It has to be since adults are responsible for how children grow up, not the children. That isn't something the police can (or should) fix. It's up to all of us.

I don't think we should be reassured. I think that's the worst thing that can happen. We need to change things, and we ALL need to look at whether there's anything we can do differently. Waiting for the police, the council, or the government to sort it all out can only work if we are prepared to live in a rigidly authoritarian police state with no privacy and precious few human rights.
 
Might want to try sorting out the 50% black youth unemployment rate... (from Guardian a couple of weeks ago, can't find article)
 
ericjarvis said:
I believe that's exactly what shouldn't happen. There is a serious problem that goes far deeper than a few out of control youths. It's a problem with the way we deal with young people. It has to be since adults are responsible for how children grow up, not the children. That isn't something the police can (or should) fix. It's up to all of us.

I don't think we should be reassured. I think that's the worst thing that can happen. We need to change things, and we ALL need to look at whether there's anything we can do differently. Waiting for the police, the council, or the government to sort it all out can only work if we are prepared to live in a rigidly authoritarian police state with no privacy and precious few human rights.
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Eric - I'd be really interested in hearing more about your ideas on this. Do you want to start a new thread or comment here so that it doesn't get lost in the chitter chatter?
 
Winot said:
Eric - I'd be really interested in hearing more about your ideas on this. Do you want to start a new thread or comment here so that it doesn't get lost in the chitter chatter?
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I've already expanded a bit on the other thread.

In chitter chatter terms, I just want to see some sign that the council see this as something that involves everyone in the area and not just a problem for the police or the youth service. That comes down to people who aren't directly affected demanding real long term solutions and not just asking to be told that the whole thing has been safely swept under the mat again.
 
Now there are several fire engines etc at kfc stop.133 with a fireman at the non existent back upstairs window of the bus. Someone just said someone collapsed on the bus... dunno.
 
quimcunx said:
Now there are several fire engines etc at kfc stop.133 with a fireman at the non existent back upstairs window of the bus. Someone just said someone collapsed on the bus... dunno.
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According to Twitter, someone had a baby on the bus. On another Tweet it said someone died. Did she die giving birth?

Someone asking why are people walking from Brixton to Streatham.
 
whoever it was they were obviously considering removing them through the back window. There were more fire trucks than ambulances.

A new life would be preferred considering the last few weeks. :)
 
Seems something might be going down around Camberwell way, but it could be the usual Twitter exaggerations.

*edit: looks like it was.
 
Fucking hell. It nearly all just kicked off in the market. God knows what about but there was mass of people pushing and shoving each other. A couple of guys from the market managed to calm things down and got the two main protagonists to walk away but I was on the verge of calling the old bill cos it looked like it was about to get nasty :(
 
nipsla said:
Fucking hell. It nearly all just kicked off in the market. God knows what about but there was mass of people pushing and shoving each other. A couple of guys from the market managed to calm things down and got the two main protagonists to walk away but I was on the verge of calling the old bill cos it looked like it was about to get nasty :(
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English cucumbers and tomatoes on sale?
 
nipsla said:
:D Although some of the fruit and veg guys did seem to be desparately trying to get rid of iceberg lettuce on Saturday at special offer prices!

There's still a lot of shouting going on but seems to have calmed down now.
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Wouldn't they have lots of stuff on sale on Saturdays to get rid of old stuff so they have fresh stuff on Monday?
 
Another Brixton high street death outside KFC?

Minnie_the_Minx said:
According to Twitter, someone had a baby on the bus. On another Tweet it said someone died. Did she die giving birth?

Someone asking why are people walking from Brixton to Streatham.
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Unless she kicked out the back window of the bus and threw a blue police tarporline over herself. I think there has been another brixton death which hasn't made the news yet. Is this conspiracy? is there a KFC related suicide pact? What the hell is going on?:hmm:
 
What blue police tarpaulin was this?

Although the glass from the emergency exit window was missing there was no smashed glass on the road when I went past.
 
There was tarpaulin over a body shaped body on the road. An ambulance next to the bus and then they put up a police screen. I think the fire brigade can remove the the back window of a bus without smashing it but I don't know why they needed to do that. Think they might have needed to lift the bus off someone. I am not sure how the colonel and his secret recipe are involved but I get the impression your involved in the cover up quimcunx :hmm::hmm:
 
Knight said:
There was tarpaulin over a body shaped body on the road. An ambulance next to the bus and then they put up a police screen. I think the fire brigade can remove the the back window of a bus without smashing it but I don't know why they needed to do that. Think they might have needed to lift the bus off someone. I am not sure how the colonel and his secret recipe are involved but I get the impression your involved in the cover up quimcunx :hmm::hmm:
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The Fire Brigade just said they had to remove someone off the bus.
 
Knight said:
There was tarpaulin over a body shaped body on the road. An ambulance next to the bus and then they put up a police screen. I think the fire brigade can remove the the back window of a bus without smashing it but I don't know why they needed to do that. Think they might have needed to lift the bus off someone. I am not sure how the colonel and his secret recipe are involved but I get the impression your involved in the cover up quimcunx :hmm::hmm:
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are you accusing me of being a tarpaulin? :hmm:

I've never been so insulted.

When did you pass? As you can see I passed about 1910/1915.
 
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