Brixton violence and looting (7th Aug 2011)

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Nothing doing in Peckham or Lewisham???

Why? Is there? Or do you want there to be? Or are you confused as to why nothing's happening there?

 

[TruXta]

I
No, you asked me if i thought a riot had happened. Nothing to do with what i posted. More to do with what Mrs magpie posted - the only person on the thread talking about riots.

No I fucking didn't. I asked you to clarify your initial referrals to "stuff" and "ideas" that people, some people, had laughed at. Were these ideas riots, rioting? I've said as much twice already. Turns out you were in the wrong thread anyway. That's all there is to it, the rest you're making up.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No. Let the bourgeoisie come in hordes.

Why?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The map you put up might explain why Currys etc got done. The Police are probably overstretched tonight trying to cover the other areas affected.

Then again, maybe they're just letting them loot everything as looting a property is better than physical confrontation? Can you imagine the uproar if someone (as in a looter) got injured?

 

[drpepperrrr]

Just saw a woman with a flatscreen got kicked down on the ground by a couple of guys to get her tv...

 

[katie_m]

Chopper seems to have moved on. All quiet (ish) on Barnwell Road.

 

[Emet]

As minnie the minx says that is a joke isnt it?

As for riots- they all had looting. Including the 81 riot that now is called an "Uprising" and is now seen as largely excusable( i prefer the term riot).

Riots always have been contradictory things. Some want to fight the police for a specific reason ( the shooting in Tottenham), some want to loot and some want to do both. It also includes setting fire to things as well. Someone said to me they could see why someone might loot a shop but why set it alight?

Its history that changes the perception of a riot.

If they haven't been woken up by the helicopters, the middle classes are in their beds. There is work tomorrow. They tend not to riot. There's a world to run.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well my son and lodger are still locked in the pub in CHL. I doubt they'll be in a fit state for work tomorrow.

 

[chavezcat]

dear lord is that a different chopper coming?

 

[katie_m]

I thought it was the original chopper, just getting further away.

 

[stevebradley]

Just what Brixton needs - a dose of recreational looting/rioting/vandalism. That'll really do wonders for the neighbourhood.

Brixton's reputation as an area to the 'outside world' has been slowly improving a lot in recent years. This just sets the clock back, and will hurt everyone in Brixton one way or another.

 

[hassan]

kicked off again, was quiet, now hearing police sirens and helicopter all the way down in stockwell

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just saw a woman with a flatscreen got kicked down on the ground by a couple of guys to get her tv...

Looters mugging the looters

No sympathy

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Well my son and lodger are still locked in the pub in CHL. I doubt they'll be in a fit state for work tomorrow.

But they'll have a good excuse!

 

[tar1984]

Wonder if cash converters will be busy in the coming weeks?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

If they haven't been woken up by the helicopters, the middle classes are in their beds. There is work tomorrow. They tend not to riot. There's a world to run.

Are you on a wind-up?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Just what Brixton needs - a dose of recreational looting/rioting/vandalism. That'll really do wonders for the neighbourhood.

Brixton's reputation as an area to the 'outside world' has been slowly improving a lot in recent years. This just sets the clock back, and will hurt everyone in Brixton one way or another.

Didn't you post on the old boards?

 

[chavezcat]

Nope over here again in central. And annoyed anyone tried to burn Morley's. Unless there is something i don't know, and it is evil, nice to have an independent store on the high street.

 

[ddraig]

Are you on a wind-up?

yes!?
and why do you have that name?

 

[Emet]

Why?

More peace, quiet; less crime and violence. See the merit in that?

Imagine a world populated entirely by the underclass. They'd soon run out of flatscreens.

I don't see any romance in the underclass.

 

[Emet]

yes!?
and why do you have that name?

What's wrong with my name?

 

[stevebradley]

Didn't you post on the old boards?

Yes. Why the surprise...?

 

[katie_m]

BBC reporting 30 firefighters tackling blaze in S London. Is that somewhere in Brixton?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

yes!?
and why do you have that name?

what's my name got to do with me asking if Emet's on a wind-up?

 

[quimcunx]

Nope over here again in central. And annoyed anyone tried to burn Morley's. Unless there is something i don't know, and it is evil, nice to have an independent store on the high street.

It's not that independent. No longer owned by the Morley family. A small* foreign chain IIRC.

*small presence in UK, might be huge in the Netherlands.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yes. Why the surprise...?

oh, no reason, it's just you're listed as a new member. Maybe you have to have a certain number of posts to become a not new member

 

[quimcunx]

BBC reporting 30 firefighters tackling blaze in S London. Is that somewhere in Brixton?

6 engines in Brixton reported earlier. So probably.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Saw this on the West London News Site

0241: Police have said that rival gangs are now starting fights at King’s College Hospital after two gang members were admitted with minor wounds.

As if hospital staff don't have a difficult enough job

 

[Gramsci]

Then again, maybe they're just letting them loot everything as looting a property is better than physical confrontation? Can you imagine the uproar if someone (as in a looter) got injured?

Good point. From what I saw the Police were pushing rioters back rather than directly confronting them.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

More peace, quiet; less crime and violence. See the merit in that?

Imagine a world populated entirely by the underclass. They'd soon run out of flatscreens.

I don't see any romance in the underclass.

Yeah right, if you say so. Definitely on a wind-up