View Full Version : Thuggery and Hooligans
First off, hope everyone is well not adversely affected by the recent issues..
So, after the recent events in the UK, wanted to get opinions from our friends out there.
What are your thoughts on the recent riots?
MrsMo
08-12-2011, 07:44 PM
I'll add to Pukn's question. How wide spread are the riots and are they really under control or are you expecting trouble to start up again?
Kitz E Kat
08-12-2011, 08:08 PM
Pretty mad stuff the way they pretty much came out of nowhere, and it would seem went back there again!
I should have known better, but when the Dublin riots happened a couple of years back I 'found' myself in the middle of it all, interesting experience to be in the middle of complete mayhem. To be so close to the law, just a few yards away was hundreds of cops, yet where I was standing it was total anarchy.
The whole topic of crowd behaviour is an interesting one in that the crowd behaves at a base level and "normal" intelligent people will quickly act with the crowd in a manner which they would never be expected to act.
Anyway I'm off to buy some beer and perhaps a tasty new mobile phone, I could loot it but a gang of one don't stand a chance !
rikku
08-12-2011, 08:17 PM
Some of us have to just work through it all! Haha I've been working in London all week so I had my own intelligence recce and planned my route in and out wisely, looks like the army was useful for something after all! Strong smell of burning rubber/plastic in there air still down here and the data center is locked down even more than usual but I've avoided it all so far!
MrsMo
08-13-2011, 06:01 PM
I was a kid when Detroit went up in flames because of race riots. My Dad was a surveyor for the power company, Detroit Edison, which ordered all the employees to just stay home. When the riots where over all the company's departments where pressed into service helping restore power because the rioters had even knocked down power lines. My Dad used to talk about having to protect the guys going up in the cherry pickers from the few people who still wanted to riot as a way of protest. Although the actual fighting was over in about a week, the damage is still affecting Detroit to this day.
I remember the Los Angeles Riots when I was a lad. It would seem to me that intelligence went out the window and people figured it was a way to get free shit with the use of a brick key.
What pisses me off is how people will use any excuse to cause destruction and mayhem, especially doing it in your own neighborhood. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me...
Apathy
08-27-2011, 11:47 PM
It was fairly contained. I was down by Manchester on holiday, about 10 miles out, when it kicked off and saw nowt. I toyed with the idea wandering in and picking up a new laptop or three but came to the conclusion that a gang of one would end up pretty much on its arse so decided to give it a miss.
There had to be some orchestration to the riots further North because what the police did was draft coppers from the Birmingham/Manchester areas into London after the first couple of days when the politicians were jumping up and down and what do you know - it kicked off up there and quietened down in London so they had pull more coppers from further North. We were passed by 6 Durham constabulary vans as we trogged up the A1, heading home and heard that a couple of guys I know in the police in Scotland had been moved South to cover. I hate to think what would have happened if they'd rioted in Shetland.