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

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quimcunx said:
there were indeed some perky girls handing out ways to happiness booklets on the high street.
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I suppose they think they're doing some good but it's depressing seeing them recruiting in Brixton. I think thought the average Brixtonite is either too intelligent to fall for it, or has better things to spend £20 on than a Dianetics book.
 
quimcunx said:
the average anything is not going to be interested or else there would be a lot more of them.
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How many were there? Did they have their stress test tables out or anything else to identify them as being Scientologists - or just pretending to be a legitimate religious group handing out leaflets?
 
Has anyone tried the new Thai place next to Rosie's in Market Row (where Goodbench used to be)?
 
Was just walking home along Atlantic/Railton Road and there was an ENORMOUS kitchen knife lying on the floor near Marcus Garvey Way! Luckily there were some coppers just across the road who came and took away said knife and put it in an evidence bag! Very strange.
 
Ms T said:
Was just walking home along Atlantic/Railton Road and there was an ENORMOUS kitchen knife lying on the floor near Marcus Garvey Way! Luckily there were some coppers just across the road who came and took away said knife and put it in an evidence bag! Very strange.
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Maybe the robber at King's College dropped it? :D (Just back from King's College and when I was going in, there seemed to be lots of staff looking for someone). Think someone may have had property stolen. Suppose a patient could have gone walkabout though, but judging by security guards running around, I reckon a bit of thievery
 
Show of strength in Brixton Town.

This afternoon saw six wagons and a couple of cars belting about with sirens raging, up and down and round and round they went. Either it was a funfair ride, or they were lost.

Then this evening about midnight, saw a convoy of four wagons and a couple of cars cruising really slowly up Effra Road and into High Trees. As I was returning, got stuck behind the same convoy cruising really slowly down Effra Road and into the high street.
 
story said:
Show of strength in Brixton Town.

This afternoon saw six wagons and a couple of cars belting about with sirens raging, up and down and round and round they went. Either it was a funfair ride, or they were lost.

Then this evening about midnight, saw a convoy of four wagons and a couple of cars cruising really slowly up Effra Road and into High Trees. As I was returning, got stuck behind the same convoy cruising really slowly down Effra Road and into the high street.
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Cruising eh?
 
London_Calling said:
Hope otherwise but pretty sure someone must have died at the lido yesterday - around 7pm. Can't see anything online though I assume, by now, any friends/relatives would have been told.

He'd been pulled out the pool and the medics had taken over from the lido staff (who walked away in tears having pumped his chest continually) but it had been over 20 minutes at that point and he just wasn't responding. Six medics, 2 defibrillators... you're obviously willing for them to put him in the recovery position. At that point it felt uncomfortable or indecent or something so I don't know what else happened... maybe something close to a miracle. I don't know. Hell of a thing.

The medics were extraordinary.
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How awful. Anyone got any news about this?
 
story said:
Show of strength in Brixton Town.

This afternoon saw six wagons and a couple of cars belting about with sirens raging, up and down and round and round they went. Either it was a funfair ride, or they were lost.

Then this evening about midnight, saw a convoy of four wagons and a couple of cars cruising really slowly up Effra Road and into High Trees. As I was returning, got stuck behind the same convoy cruising really slowly down Effra Road and into the high street.
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yeah, MASSIVE police presence in Brixton today - must be at least 5 or 10 times the usual number. Loads on foot patrolling the market in pairs, stopping and searching kids on Popes Road. Loads of vans parked up on Loughborough Road. Four cars full of armed coppers parked up on my road. Seems like they're surrounding the estates....
 
Saw:

- Wagons from Yorkshire, Kent and Cornwall cruising about.

- Packs of Community cops maundering about.

- A very odd arrest outside The Albert that looked to me and my companion a whole lot like a set up.

Interesting night....
 
Plenty of police around today too.

But they were keeping their distance from the devil-dog exhibition in Windrush Square at 4.30pm.

As was everyone else
 
I was in Windrush Sq at 4.40pm. :hmm: Never saw them.

:hmm: You're not referring to me are you? :mad:

I was sat in the Ritzy W Sq outpost. :cool:
 
leanderman said:
Plenty of police around today too.

But they were keeping their distance from the devil-dog exhibition in Windrush Square at 4.30pm.

As was everyone else
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I like the Blue-nose one with the enormous dugs. Judging by the state of them, she must have about 44 pups gnawing at her. She's friendly and trots up with a smile to say hello.
 
quimcunx said:
I was in Windrush Sq at 4.40pm. :hmm: Never saw them.

:hmm: You're not referring to me are you? :mad:

I was sat in the Ritzy W Sq outpost. :cool:
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No! I skirted the devil-dogs at 4.25pm.

Unlike Story, I am too scared to approach them.

Can someone explain why such dogs are kept?

They look pretty menacing to me ('cept the pregnant one).
 
gaijingirl said:
I believe so - the plans are still up in the toilet block in the playground and when I spoke, very recently, with one of the FoBP committee she said it was still going ahead... we were commenting on how lucky it was for that to still be in the running.

Let's just hope it stays that way.
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Can I really be the first to notice they have started work on the replacement playground in Brockwell Park?

Will be quite a bit bigger - as well as a whole lot better.
 
Someone remind me on monday to print out a big one of these to stick on it.

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