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London and UK riots (started in Tottenham 10:30PM, 6th Aug)

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    #872
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,178 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Joshua Jones wrote: »
    Remember remember
    the 5th of november

    What's this about?


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    #873
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Some talk on twitter that Birmingham Children's Hospital is coming under attack.. wtf

    I really hope thats not true :(


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    #874
    positron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭positron


    Tool on Sky news saying they are just kids, careful about rubber bullets and water canyons. F*cking bastards like this is ruining Europe. Throw him to the mob first and then may be he would appreciate rubber bullets. Sick!!


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    #875
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    Kiith wrote: »
    What's worse is you can be sure that the main talking points in the next few weeks will be how the police used excessive force when they do eventually do something, and there'll be a picture of someone getting hit by a cop and that the 'poor fellow' had been doing nothing wrong.
    Thats fair enough, if someone is acting the maggot and destroying property then the police should go in and knock a few heads together. However if they go after an innocent bystander like in the Ian Tomlinson case then they should be held accountable.


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    #876
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    And what they are doing now will change this?

    Same boo-hoo bull**** over and over.

    lol, they don't care about changing it.

    Seriously, the vast majority of this thread have forgotten what it was like to be young, pissed off about stuff and stupid.

    No point in talking sense and hoping these kids see the bigger picture, they won't. The bigger picture to them is taking shots at cops and robbing stuff.

    The important aspect is to understand why it happened to stop it happening again...because the kids taking part don't really know what they are doing or why, they are just ripping **** up because it's fun.


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    #877
    Sardonicat
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Some talk on twitter that Birmingham Children's Hospital is coming under attack.. wtf
    Jebus Christ!

    Any link?


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    #878
    questionmark?
    Registered Users Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭questionmark?


    robinph wrote: »
    Can't' be done, don't know the exact requirements but it is not easy to order the military to deploy against their own citizens. Now they could get their fire tenders out to help I guess, but that would be it for now.

    Their not firing on them. Public disorder control is all. No Constitution in place and the queen still retains some power that is rarely used. How far can this be let go. This could very easily spread right across the UK unless it is stopped very soon.


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    #879
    Spudmonkey
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    Bring on the rubber bullets. Take em down by the knees!!


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    #880
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    J. Marston wrote: »
    What's this about?

    It's basically a call to anarchy. See Guy Fawkes, Gunpower Plot and probably V for Vendetta.

    Almost a noble idea, but I doubt any of these knobends currently starring on BBC and SKY have heard of any of the three of them.


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    #881
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Joshua Jones wrote: »
    Remember remember
    the 5th of november

    Or the 2nd of september 1666...


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    #882
    For Forks Sake
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    J. Marston wrote: »
    What's this about?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09RxXvRXiPI


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    #883
    Superbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Some talk on twitter that Birmingham Children's Hospital is coming under attack.. wtf

    Jesus Christ, they are the dregs of humanity.


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    #884
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Seen a post on here re cordons in Shephards Bush, anyone got any links on it?


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    #885
    DominoDub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    Yeah I dont know what your man was talking about 1,400 ...!

    Every one of them should be on the streets tonight

    MET Police numbers

    Regular police officers: 32,132[25]
    Police Community Support Officers: 3,918[25]
    Special Constables: 5,096[25]
    Traffic wardens: 470[25]
    Horses: 120[26]
    Other police staff: 13,786[25]


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service


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    #886
    tayto lover
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    J. Marston wrote: »
    What's this about?

    Guy Fawkes day. When they tried to blow up the Parliament.


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    #887
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,178 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    What's the ''Cobra Committee''? It's on the Sky News ticker.

    Whatever it is, it sounds bad-ass.


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    #888
    thee glitz
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    Did they say Clapham High Street... or just Clapham junction?


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    #889
    Latchy
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Some talk on twitter that Birmingham Children's Hospital is coming under attack.. wtf
    :(
    positron wrote: »
    Tool on Sky news saying they are just kids, careful about rubber bullets and water canyons. F*cking bastards like this is ruining Europe. Throw him to the mob first and then may be he would appreciate rubber bullets. Sick!!
    Thankfully I'm not watching this on sky news .


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    #890
    Ulysses Gaze
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    thee glitz wrote: »
    Did they say Clapham High Street... or just Clapham junction?

    HS


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    #891
    DominoDub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭DominoDub


    J. Marston wrote: »
    What's the ''Cobra Committee''? It's on the Sky News ticker.

    Whatever it is, it sounds bad-ass.

    Cabinet Office Briefing Room A

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Office_Briefing_Room


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    #892
    tayto lover
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Or the 2nd of september 1666...



    But that only went from Pudding Lane to Pie Corner.


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    #893
    robinph
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    amacachi wrote: »
    A curfew put in place tomorrow would simplify things massively.
    Would have said the same, but then it kicked of very early today in the middle of the afternoon.

    Can't do a curfew for the whole day, so anyone wearing a hoody banned from the streets all day tomorrow might stop them. Or anyone that can't prove thehy have a job gets locked up if found on the streets?
    amacachi wrote: »
    That has to be BS, there's almost 10 times as many as that in Ireland

    I'm sure someone got the comma in the wrong place, Ken Livingstone was on earlier talking about there being 32,000 police in the MET during his time as mayor.


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    #894
    Kiwi_knock
    Registered Users Posts: 7,462 ✭✭✭Kiwi_knock


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Some talk on twitter that Birmingham Children's Hospital is coming under attack.. wtf

    Local radio station in Birmingham says there is no trouble at the hospital but there is a police presence at the hospital.

    http://twitter.com/#!/brmb


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    #895
    Sand
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    amacachi wrote: »
    That has to be BS, there's almost 10 times as many as that in Ireland

    That might be taking into account training and equipment - only a small fraction of cops would be trained for riot duties, or be equipped for it. Sending out untrained, unprotected police officers to be stoned, petrol bombed and beaten by a mob would just absorp even more manpower in evacuating the wounded.


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    #896
    Biggins
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    positron wrote: »
    Tool on Sky news saying they are just kids, careful about rubber bullets and water canyons. F*cking bastards like this is ruining Europe. Throw him to the mob first and then may be he would appreciate rubber bullets. Sick!!
    While I agree with the sentiment - just one injury of a child and lord knows the twats will use it as a further excuse to rally around and cause more trouble.

    Its an impossible situation for the legal authorities.


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    #897
    yerraya
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭yerraya


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Some talk on twitter that Birmingham Children's Hospital is coming under attack.. wtf

    The hospital????:eek::mad: thats just terrible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14453258

    Shocking


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    #898
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Makes that Dublin riot look utter rubbish now.


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    #899
    k.p.h
    Registered Users Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭k.p.h


    I'm not a big fan of the scumbags myself. But their are reasons scumbags are what they are. It's not always black and white. Suspect we will be seeing more and more of these instances as the stock markets go's bollox up (happening as we speak, would be the headlines only for this) and debt takes over. The poor are getting poorer and their numbers are growing.


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    #900
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    J. Marston wrote: »
    What's the ''Cobra Committee''? It's on the Sky News ticker.

    Whatever it is, it sounds bad-ass.
    Bad ass as it gets ...they decide what course of action to take next ,sorta like when a war cabinet gets together .


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    #901
    biddyteabags
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭biddyteabags


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    Looting a hairdressers? What's the point in that? It's not like you can steal a haircut.

    Money, Expensive Shampoos and Conditioners, GHDS.


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