2010-03-15 - Attempted bikejacking/mugging, Peckham Rye/Nunhead

I ride through Peckham to and from work every day and I've thought about commenting before on here about how much it feels like riding around in Mad Max! Laws don't apply there and cars, buses and people just do whatever they want. Sign me up for an unofficial SE Justice League!

Just what bits of Peckham are you riding through? Not any that I recognise. Like I said before, I've lived and worked in Peckham, Walworth, Camberwell area for many years now- and I teach in a school on a tower block estate in North Peckham. Of course there are areas where I wouldn't hang around on my own after midnight, it's the inner city after all, and of course there are scallys around who swagger about and act tough. And like any other inner city area there are bad things that happen. But I just don't recognise the clockwork orange type scenario you describe-. Believe me, there are plenty of great people, and good things going on in the area. And I'm not naive- I've worked as a detached youth worker on one of the toughest council estates in London in the past so I have no illusions about what some nasty individuals are capable of. But I'd still rather live in South East London than Hampstead. You get a better class of people here.