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hiraethified
You wouldn't want 'em hanging about your doorstep though, would you?
Serious incident in/around KFC Brixton - man assaulted and later dies
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hiraethified
It's because it's where gangs, drunk people and ne'er do wells like to gather.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
My friend saw him.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
No, editor, I would not want the Acre Lane lot right on my doorstep - although they're so close to it it's sort of a moot point. But (with respect) I wouldn't want a pub or club crowd on my doorstep either. Or a Starbucks. again, I'm NOT saying "there's no problem at all here" when someone got their head kicked in yesterday (in an incident where we don't know the background, btw). Just that having a big group of guys hanging about obviously selling drugs might LOOK like a major public order problem all the time, when actually the level of real violence/harassment they commit is pretty small.
Further than that, on 'how much drug dealing are you prepared to tolerate and where and at what hours of the day' - the issues are so complicated I think i've forgotten any opinions I might ever have had about it. You can't stamp out street dealing, for the reasons outlined above. It's very hard to design a policy which eliminates dealing of some drugs but not others. You can't stamp out dealing altogether in any location (even assuming you wanted to), for the reasons above. So how SHOULD the police or the community or whoever be policing this issue, as it applies to Brixton and the Acre Lane bus stops? not challenging you, just expressing the roots of my own confusion.
Further than that, on 'how much drug dealing are you prepared to tolerate and where and at what hours of the day' - the issues are so complicated I think i've forgotten any opinions I might ever have had about it. You can't stamp out street dealing, for the reasons outlined above. It's very hard to design a policy which eliminates dealing of some drugs but not others. You can't stamp out dealing altogether in any location (even assuming you wanted to), for the reasons above. So how SHOULD the police or the community or whoever be policing this issue, as it applies to Brixton and the Acre Lane bus stops? not challenging you, just expressing the roots of my own confusion.
They're open late, so drunks with the munchies go there. And street dealers get their meals there. Plus the KFC and Macdonalds in Brixton are on corners and they have toilets where drugs can be stashed.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
...and underpaid staff who don't get paid enough, or feel like their interests are looked after enough to intervene.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
is that where they stash them?
Good question. With no answers I can think of. Apart from legalising drugs. Which will never happen here. You could increase the arrest and conviction rate by throwing more money at the problem. (Which would also mean building more prisons.) But the problem wouldn't diminish because the flow of new dealers can't be stopped.
is that where they stash them?
It's been known. That's why the police pressured KFC to have the electric lock/request system. But you still get officers in there searching for stashes under the sinks etc.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i'm gonna have a rummidge next week when i'm in town. thanks for the tip!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
how would he know?
why do these things always seem to happen outside fastfood outlets?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
that question has already been asked and answered
you want to take your chances with an axe in the head for a 16th of oregano?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
perhaps
Mrs Redboots
Ice dancer
I thought that McDo's, at least, made its toilets available to the general public under the Community Toilets scheme, so anybody could go in there, whether for the purpose for which they were designed or to stash drugs!
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Legalisation is the way forward. Although I'd probably start taking drugs then.
I'm told by someone who knows the local crims that the assailant isn't a local dealer. He had an argument with 3 white guys inside KFC, went away and came back with a length of pipe. It's assumed he must be a yardie to be that violent in a public place. He left his prints on the KFC window.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I was in KFC at the time it all went off. It was weird....As the comotion happened all very quick. Three guys came in to KFC and looked like they stole the table cleaner and ran off when they went out side. Then i went to the door of KFC and saw the guy with this massive pole run towards the door. Every one in KFC ran towards the tables as they saw what was coming. The problem was the guy with the pole was disorientated as the door to KFC doesnt push open. He then ran off. The next thing the guy obviously got hit and was lieing on his back outside. Didnt feel very hungry after all this!
Prob unrelated but thought id stick it here.
40 mins ago on coldharbour Lane just passed the bridge, in the road outside Brixton Village and the Nuclear Dawn mural. There was a fight 3 on 1 black guys involving chains. The 1 was approached by the 3 and beaten unconscious. A sustained attack until he dropped, then they ran. The road is closed off, area is tapped up surrounding 1 or 2 -left- items.
40 mins ago on coldharbour Lane just passed the bridge, in the road outside Brixton Village and the Nuclear Dawn mural. There was a fight 3 on 1 black guys involving chains. The 1 was approached by the 3 and beaten unconscious. A sustained attack until he dropped, then they ran. The road is closed off, area is tapped up surrounding 1 or 2 -left- items.
editor
hiraethified
Fucking hell. What's the matter with these people?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
*makes note to check next time she is in Brixton*
I'm just waiting for the day till I can buy crack.
You can....just go to the Lloyds TSB on Acre Lane....
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
it's like the wild west. can't the police get a grip? how can this be happening under their noses, time after time.
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