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Missing, presumed lost, 200 rioters heading from Wandsworth to Putney...

No sign of them here anyway. All very normal

CID wrong?

Fact: I did not know what JD Sport was before these events.

Bless...

Beat me to it...
#ihatehoxton

I'm a property guardian - I go where they put me

Nice set of pics from The Atlantic pulled from different sources.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/riots-in-london/100124/

The road? The shops?

Haha, its a cinema in Nottingham. Was talking to soperRiva

I'm a property guardian - I go where they put me

Lolzers.
I was affraid of having to leave my flat last night, and be mistaken with a looter, for carrying my own stuff....
Magnets night.

Spitalfields area closed, interview cancelled 2 days in a row. Looters gonna reimburse me for lost potential earnings?

Loot your own lost potential earnings.

Fucking lazy youth of today.

bbc - first reports of trouble in west bromwich

Lolzers.

Not that I'll be doing much Guarding tonight....

Text from my brother in Nottm, nothing at all happening there. Reckons Forest v County tonight will be more of a problem.

Fact: I did not know what JD Sport was before these events.

Bloody ignorant foreigners.

qwe

shit - leave the stadium alone please

West Brom going for it. Not sure how you tell exactly which windows have been smashed there though.

What a load of guardian reading tripe. People are over analysing this. These scum, yes SCUM are not trying to make any sort of point. Their intelligence levels would not allow it.

I grew up in this "poverty" all you middle class folks speak of, on an estate amongst thugs and thieves that would mug you for pocket change. Adult men who would rob a bike off a 7 year old etc.. This does not stop 99.99999% of everyone retaining civility, rationality and morality. No matter how poor people are or "tough" situation they are in. Remember this is the UK. No one is starving to death here. These yobs just went to rob phones and TV's.

I still live in a community full of this "poverty" you speak of. People doing endless hours for less than minimum wage (typical around here is £3-£4 an hour). Tons of illegals. Lots of plain new immigrants living crammed into tiny terraces 5 to a room. But they would all be thoroughly appalled at this looting.

Kill all these bastards and you would thoroughly improve our capital and other major cities. These are the scum that Mug people, steal bikes, sexually assault, sell drugs to kids, claim unecessary benefits for life and spend it on booze etc.

If there were more muslamists involved im sure the Daily Fail and EDL etc would put a much stronger spin on this.

A lot of people on here don't seem to understand how law and order in our society works, or doesn't work in this case.

It works because people consent to be governed, and accept the rule of law. That is why we don't have armed cops, or a particularly large police force.

What we are seeing right now is that a large group of people have withdrawn their consent to be governed, and are not respecting the rule of law. If this group is sufficiently large, as we have seen, the existing forces of law may not have the numbers to restore order.

We can postulate various ways in which the imbalance of forces can be altered in the short-term so that order can be restored (water cannon, more police, paramilitarising the police, using the Army, paramilitarising sections of the civil population), but unless we figure out why such a large group of people have withdrawn (however temporarily, spuriously or irrationally) their consent to be governed, and take steps to remedy it, this will all happen again, and we will be forced to warehouse large numbers of people in prison, rather as the US has done.

Using the prison system to control people who have no stake in main-stream society, as has been shown in the US, does not work on any level, economically, socially or ethically, especially in view of the recidivism rates.

I don't think it's helpful to present the case as either condemn or understand. You can both condemn the actions, and try to understand the circumstances that lead to the actions.

Fact: I did not know what JD Sport was before these events.

Well they don't do brown, so why would you?

West Brom kicking off... >>>>>>>>>>>

Well they don't do brown, so why would you?

So repped. :D

Golden Brown

SAFE TOILET LIST
1- Harrod's
2 - Bodean's
3 - 1001 (Bricklane)
4 - Stoke Newington Police Station
5 - madame Tussauds Staff toilets.
6 - Heatrow Airport
7 - tate Modern
8 - B'ham Palace
9 - Any job centre
10 - Hampstead Heath (sort of)

Fact: I did not know what JD Sport was before these events.

you're soooo middle class.

West Brom kicking off... >>>>>>>>>>>

great team, shit area. sounds like 200. these numbers are small but obviously dangerous. come on west brom sort it out

Haha, its a cinema in Nottingham. Was talking to soperRiva

has it properly started to kick off or precautionary?

They better not fuck with Lee Rosy's.

Guy on Sky News just said: "...Youths are attracted to crime.....like a magnet..."
Someone care to explain please?