Brixton chitter chatter part 1 (Nov 2006-June 2008)

[Mrs Magpie]

Brixton was completely mad today. Traffic at a crawl and junctions snarled up because of an accident near the town hall and another one outside Superdrug. People in shops under the impression that if they don't completely fill their cupboards with food they'll starve to death over the Easter weekend...saw people fighting over Easter eggs in Woolies......

 

[bluestreak]

loads of cops about. a shop on railton road was the victim of a mad bust of some sort, loads of people dragged into the street being patted down by the pigs. word is they were dealing from the premises but who knows. fucking sad, nice people. pretty sure they didn';t deserve that.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

People in shops under the impression that if they don't completely fill their cupboards with food they'll starve to death over the Easter weekend...saw people fighting over Easter eggs in Woolies......

That's sad

I just went to M&S and bought b/f a chocolate Easter Bunny

It's sitting alongside his chocolate Orang Utan from Thorntons that I bought him at Christmas which he refuses to eat as he doesn't want to break the orang utan up

and then he moans he has no chocolate in the house

 

[Brixton Hatter]

what was that huge commotion outside the Fridge yesterday evening? Went past on the bus about 6.30pm and there was ambulances, police, taped off road and loads of crowds hovering around - someone hit by a car? (Bloody dangerous place to cross the road there anyway....)

 

[tarannau]

I don't know, but the day before there were loads of cops, a fire engine and a couple of ambulances stationed outside the houses by the Eurolink BC/old Synagogue. And on the same day, more than 7 meat wagons were assembling in the glamourous surroundings of the Carpet Right carpark.

They spent a good few hours there, being observed and occasionally heckled by the Hobgob regulars. In fact they were still there as I left the pub, trying on balaclavas and gossiping with each other. The gossip seems to be that they were the mob, I mean resources, in place for the StAgnes raid, but it seemed a little much to start meeting at 7pm for an operation that took place at 3am?

 

[Belushi]

but it seemed a little much to start meeting at 7pm for an operation that took place at 3am?

Overtime

 

[gaijingirl]

I saw a much loved ginger haired urbanite getting on the bus outside Woolies last night!!!

 

[story]

Things feel a bit itchy to me...

There was a street fight on the corner of Atlantic Rd and Coldharbour Lane last week - middle of the afternoon, people running in and out of shops to grab bottles to beat people with, that sort of thing.

Blair's stupid assertion that Black people en masse are responsible for Black-on-Black street crime...

The St Agnes Square raid...

Very enthusiastic policing: we had an armed unit in the street last night who had followed knife-armed yoot all the way from Stockwell after they robbed a mobile phone. Vans and body armour and allsorts for two barely-in-their-teens lads.

Hot weather...

All the ingredients are in place

 

[editor]

There was a street fight on the corner of Atlantic Rd and Coldharbour Lane last week - middle of the afternoon, people running in and out of shops to grab bottles to beat people with, that sort of thing.

This 'throwing bottles' thing is very popular around my neck of the woods.

Very enthusiastic policing: we had an armed unit in the street last night who had followed knife-armed yoot all the way from Stockwell after they robbed a mobile phone. Vans and body armour and allsorts for two barely-in-their-teens lads.

I haven't got any problem with the police hunting down knife-wielding muggers. Fuck 'em.

 

[citydreams]

Looking forward to see Ross Kemp's take on Brixton tonight...
http://forums.digiguide.com/topic.asp?id=20212
..happily, I don't have Sky1.

 

[story]

This 'throwing bottles' thing is very popular around my neck of the woods.I haven't got any problem with the police hunting down knife-wielding muggers. Fuck 'em.

Me either editor. My point was that bringing in vans and an armed unit seemed to me a bit OTT in the circumstances. It just raises the temperature. It ended with a heated row in the street, with people coming out of their houses and berating the cops. In the event, it wasn't reassuring, it was provocative.

 

[brix]

Looking forward to see Ross Kemp's take on Brixton tonight...
http://forums.digiguide.com/topic.asp?id=20212
..happily, I don't have Sky1.

Groan. I can just tell this is going to be awful. Worse (if such a thing is possible) than that awful, sensationalist, tabloid Ann Widdecombe v. the 'hoodies' of Myatts Fields progam

 

[editor]

Choice. Heard a big kerfuffle outside my block. There's some dude arguing with a woman pushing a buggy with her little kid cycling behind. Both are shouting and cussing loudly.

The bloke picks up a bottle and goes to threaten the woman. Bloke's mate grabs the bottle off him. Mother and buggy and kid retire stage left while the bellowing continues.

*That's* how to bring up kids!

 

[editor]

Looking forward to see Ross Kemp's take on Brixton tonight...
http://forums.digiguide.com/topic.asp?id=20212
..happily, I don't have Sky1.

Hey! Let's publicise the activities of these little scumbag scrotes and make them feel really important!

Kids! Want to get famous and be on TV? Join a gang!

 

[story]

See? Itchy as fuck

 

[editor]

So, it's goodbye to the old, much loved Post Office on Coldharbour Lane and hello to 'Chicago Pizza, Fried Chicken and Kebab' fast food store.

More litter! More chicken bits scattered all over the place! More kids hanging about! Grrrreat!

 

[story]

Because we really need more shitty chicken shacks and fewer post offices, eh.

 

[gaijingirl]

Victoria Line is closed right up to Highbury and Islington - be prepared for chaos down by the tube this morning...

 

[Crispy]

Looks alright to me - no queues yet.

 

[gaijingirl]

Looks alright to me - no queues yet.

I've forgotten how to use this rather helpful facility... what do i do at the password bit?

 

[Crispy]

hit enter

 

[gaijingirl]

blimey - it looks positively empty!! So much for the BBCs travel report...

Great that webcam thingamijig!!

 

[gaijingirl]

These people have a stall in Brocky Park this morning http://www.goodgoing.co.uk/home and there is another with free cyclists breakfasts - oddly next to a burger and chips van??

(plus there were some fine runners in the park this morning... )

 

[editor]

Wooargh! Just had a full on altercation with one of those 'charity muggers' by the tube.

"Would you like to give to ++++ charity?" she asks.
"No thanks," I politely answer, as I continue to struggle up the road with a load of shopping.

Next thing I know she's walking alongside me shouting, "No heart! You've got no heart."

Slightly annoyed, I politely point out that I (a) already give to charities thanks very much and (b) I've even done some work for free for the charity she represented.

"Bullshit!" She exclaims, "that's not enough," shoving her face right into mine.

I'm curious how she feels fit to judge others and decide how much they should give, so I ask her how much she gives to the particular charity.

Oops! Uncomfortable question!

She immediately launched into ranting Invective Time, so I leave sharply as passers by quickly start plotting a wide course around her on the pavement

And here ends the first lesson on how not to represent a charity. Stupid fucking woman.

 

[Structaural]

The old Texaco garage on Coldharbour Lane (you know the one without petrol, or lights or any other garage-like things) has now turned into an ad hoc drinking area, cum-football pitch, cum-hang out, cum-car park, cum-social club.

Most odd.

is that taken from the barrier block?

 

[Structaural]

Bet they're rolling out the jerk chicken barrels now, yard style. Let us know when they string up the sound system. The reggae producer Larry Lawrence owns the eaterie opposite (My Father's Place).

Does he really? Best patties in Brixton I reckon...

 

[Structaural]

Wooargh! Just had a full on altercation with one of those 'charity muggers' by the tube.

"Would you like to give to ++++ charity?" she asks.
"No thanks," I politely answer, as I continue to struggle up the road with a load of shopping.

Next thing I know she's walking alongside me shouting, "No heart! You've got no heart."

Slightly annoyed, I politely point out that I (a) already give to charities thanks very much and (b) I've even done some work for free for the charity she represented.

"Bullshit!" She exclaims, "that's not enough," shoving her face right into mine.

I'm curious how she feels fit to judge others and decide how much they should give, so I ask her how much she gives to the particular charity.

Oops! Uncomfortable question!

She immediately launched into ranting Invective Time, so I leave sharply as passers by quickly start plotting a wide course around her on the pavement

And here ends the first lesson on how not to represent a charity. Stupid fucking woman.

Wot an idiot.
They're paid to do that job - you should complain.

 

[Pieface]

christ - I've never had one get like that before! I lost it with one in central London that started following me along the street and getting in my way but he stayed superficially polite while doing it...

 

[editor]

christ - I've never had one get like that before! I lost it with one in central London that started following me along the street and getting in my way but he stayed superficially polite while doing it...

Oh this one was really going for it. She even managed to bring up race too and started banging on about how she lived in Jamaica (eh?) and was a 'Reiki healer' (albeit lacking some inner peace).

I wasn't quite sure of the relevance. Maybe she was just having a really, really, really bad day.

 

[Pip]

It looks like that absolute wanker who preached on Oxford Street before he got a well deserved ASBO has moved to Brixton, I have it on good authority that he was seen with a megaphone outside the tube.