Riots

[stinkywitch]

Anybody else feel the shame that we do. It's not a protest any more is mindless, greedy fkers kicking off!
Family and friends close by, not involved but you have to wonder how far it will spread.

[stinkywitch]

A Facebook group has appeared, please can you and anybody you know on fb report it?

http://www.facebook.com/groups/235267786511728/

[exstockwellgooner]

Stinky- as someone who lived in London for 34 years and I still work there most days-A Truly great shame is the only way I can describe the last couple of nights. Have a lot of family who live in Croydon and were trapped in their houses last night by people committing pure acts of evil and wickedness. Hope it clams down a bit tonight and fair play to all the twitterers who lent a hand and cleaned up the mess...

[Lou's other half]

5.00am and I've just got home from work, and driving through London I've never seen it so empty. Drove right through Hackney - right through some of the worst areas of Monday night - and it was silent, it's usually pretty busy at this time. But saddened to see that it's still going off elsewhere. I'm London, born and bred, and yes, all I can feel is shame that this has happened.

I hope all our GW friends and their friends and families are OK. All we can hope is that, somehow, communities now pull together and put an end to it.

[GlastoWatch]

I live in Croydon and have never witnessed anything like Monday night before. It was like living in the "hood".
Gangs wearing hoodies and masks roaming the streets, convoys of up to eight cars each cruising the area looking for an opportunity to get up to no good.

I saw a guy get a brick thrown in his face by four thugs. It knocked him clean out and there was blood everywhere. It took forever to get an ambulance due to their resources being stretched to the limit. We couldn't even drive him ourselves due to the hospital being on London Rd and it being a no go area as it was in flames and the centre of the trouble.

Everything was on lockdown, even 24hr petrol garages several miles away were closed. You couldn't get a pint of milk for love nor money.

All this was about four miles south of the actual riots, so you can imagine what it was like nearer the centre of the trouble.

To make things worse, the local gun shop was looted, so now even more of these idiots are running about with guns!




I did witness one good thing though, last night I saw about a dozen police vans descend upon Comet on the Purley Way from all directions and several of the looters who were captured received "appropriate treatment" for resisting arrest.

The original protesters in Tottenham had cause to be upset, but these aren't protestors, they're just mindless thugs out to destroy and steal.

[stinkywitch]

The clean up campaign on twitter #riotcleanup has restored a bit of faith.

[subtitlesonly]

there was no rioting in Manchester as such, just looting. I'm normally a passive sympathetic guy when it comes to social issues, but it's hard to find anything to be sympathetic about. I walked through Manchester city centre last week, it's so sad seeing so many shops boarded up. This was about greed, nothing else. The one good thing to come of it is that people have united in thier support of the victims, and love of Manchester.