England Riots 2011

[ilovebender.com]

Croydon's burning, Lidl's on fire, the petrol station's been cordenend off, I see smoke in the back ground, I see/hear helicopters, I hear a lot of passing sirens, My nan's just came back from there, I've been told to watch the news... Not good.
This just started tonight... I don't want to go out and see it, just incase I get hurt.

London's been rioting these past couple of days, and I've just been informed Croydon's on fire, I smell smoke... It might be a BBQ, or a really big Birthday cake, but Croydon's on fire tonight.

London riots: live - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8687177/London-riots-live.html)

[The Illusive Man]

Croydon's burning, Lidl's on fire, the petrol station's been cordenend off, I see smoke in the back ground, I see helicopters... This just started tonight... I don't want to go out and see it, just incase I get hurt.

London's been rioting these past couple of days, and I've just been informed Croydon's on fire, I smell smoke... I might be a BBQ, or a really big Birthday cake, but Croydon's onn fire tonight.

London riots: live - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8687177/London-riots-live.html)

This happens everyday in Croydon though. lol

[ilovebender.com]

Not since Euro 2004, and I was out of the country then anyway lol

Anyway, this is day 3 of rioting, usually it just lasts for a day.

[Herr Sven]

Why are they rioting?

[ilovebender.com]

Guy got shot dead by the police, people say it was wrong, police acused of planting a gun at the scene...

So now we have this.

I would go, tomorrow, to asses the damage, but I might get bricked in the head or arrested if another one breaks out, so, I'm good lol

[Flexo 98]

I live in Birmingham, I hear that it's spreading about the bullring and city centre...

[ilovebender.com]

It's passed me, it's over taken my house and my nan had to be driven back tonight.

It started in North London, then spread around.

[Flexo 98]

My sisters in London as well :(

[ilovebender.com]

I think I just heard an explosion... Don't worry about it, I am a little worried though, just incase it comes to Thornton Heath, and what I just heard... and some siren near me from... Some Emergency thing drive by after it... I am worried if it comes to Thornton Heath, as I'm near the shops and stuff and don't my windows smashed... But that's not gonna happen. Relax, I'm sure your sister's fine.

[frys_red_jacket]

ive seen all about this everywhere, cant believe how low a bunch of dead beats will sink to

[SuicideBooth]

ive seen all about this everywhere, cant believe how low a bunch of dead beats will sink to

Especially Brits...

[Cak20]

Dam idiots thy are acting like a couple of rednecks
mate just keep a crowbar by your bed and chill until it is over
you know what we need a civilian anti mob acction so when the poilce are to busy to cope with certain areas they pick up the slack

[ilovebender.com]

I might go over to Pottery Barn, steal their fire lol

[KISS_MY_SHINY_METAL_ASS]

ive seen all about this everywhere, cant believe how low a bunch of dead beats will sink to

I agree, they are taking advantage of a siduation in order to act reckless and cause trouble.

[ilovebender.com]

I just think it's stupid and have no sympathy for anybody unless they get hurt.

F**K everyone here, it was bound to happen.

[Yoshirama]

I saw this on the news, there was a lot of them.

[Harvey]

Stupid riots ... tonight it's in Manchester, birmingham and surrounding areas and pretty much all of England ... WHY ARE THEY STILL RIOTING! SO WHAT THEY CAN'T AFFORD SHOES NO NEED TO RIP UP SHOPS AND DESTROY HOMES!!!!!!

[Gazereths]

These riots are fooking crazy, they should bring in the real enforcers to stop these morons (Army or armed Police). They are using a lawful killing by police to justify looting, assault, vandalism etc etc.............It's spread from London to loads of Cities.

There were over 50 cars smashed and burned in the St Ann's part of Nottingham last night along with loads of looting and pillaging of shops and houses.

I say meet violence with violence.

[The Illusive Man]

Especially Brits...

What's that suppost to mean...

[ilovebender.com]

Can I be honest... I only created this thread when I found out about Croydon...

I didn't even know about Brimingham or Liverpool or nothing, when I started this thread.

I was LOLing at Brixton though... Don't know why, maybe because it's Brixton, I just knew something like this was due to happen.
I'm less surprised about the riots here than I am about Amy Winehouse dieing and yet, that's the one that everyone saw comming lol.

[SuicideBooth]

So what started all this anyway?

[Harvey]

ILB you all okay saw the stuff going down at croydon last night?

[The Illusive Man]

They even spread as far as Kent.

[The Illusive Man]

So what started all this anyway?

It was said in ILBs thread, some buttmunches using a police shooting as an excuse to do this.

[Gazereths]

It's spread like a fooking wild fire...Notts had it last night. 50+ cars smashed/burned, shops looted, houses burned.......I say bring in the snipers with the .50 cal rifles!!!

[Flexo 98]

Well, it's rumoured that the police shot the man first.

[Gazereths]

So you think they should wait until the guy shoots a police officer before they can shoot him?

[SuicideBooth]

It was said in ILBs thread, some buttmunches using a police shooting as an excuse to do this.

So everyone thought the only sensible way to react to this is to start a riot?

[ilovebender.com]

Well, it's rumoured that the police shot the man first.

It's not the first time this has happened. Where I live in 2004 a man got shot dead by the police who, they recovered a non police firearm from the scene, that people say they saw them plant, THEN STOCKWELL when that guy got shot dead on the train because he looked like a terrorist and they just chased him and shot him, and then the man who got shot dead this week, was too much like 2004 near where I live... The MET are hated and this started as a protest against the MET... rolling budget cuts and benifits being cut and recalled just added.


REBEL! REBEL! lol

[Gazereths]

So everyone thought the only sensible way to react to this is to start a riot?

No it started with a peaceful protest from the family trying to get info about the killing......It ended as an excuse for the fucking scum of this country to start a riot and steal whatever they wanted.

[ilovebender.com]

Yeah, kind of sucks that this thing spread... watch, tomorrow, this thread'll be called UK riots... - Seriously though, I can't wait for my stuff to open, like my liesure centre - oh that would have been a sweet escape for me tonight.

[The Illusive Man]

Yeah, kind of sucks that this thing spread... watch, tomorrow, this thread'll be called UK riots...

Almost that now. :P

[Fotane]

Trust the English to start dragging Scotland's good name through the mud. We're so good and innocent, and that reputation could be ruined if this goes further...

[ilovebender.com]

Can you rename this thread England riots instead of ENGLAND riots please? Saying ENGLAND like that is borish and oathish, I think lol... and it's got my name under it lol

[Flexo 98]

I still fail to see how or why people from other cities and places would start a riot as well, why did they get involved?

[ilovebender.com]

I still fail to see how or why people from other cities and places would start a riot as well, why did they get involved?YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE lol

No jobs I guess.

[Flexo 98]

YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE lol

No jobs I guess.

I guess so lol

[SuicideBooth]

What's that suppost to mean...

You're all usually so classy. lol

[ilovebender.com]

Boorish and oafish**... I may have pride when it comes to my threads & how they come across sometimes, but I dropped out of school in year 11 and got stoned at a party college and now everyone calls me Slash... - So mistakes in my spelling happens from time to time lol


It's not that bad saying ENGLAND... but the name change looked to me like a reminder that it's ENGLAND, like I was reminding the forum of something, instead of just 'reporting' lol

[frys_red_jacket]

makes me sick that all dans dad can say about them is leave to it, theyre having fun

[Yoshirama]

randoms got involved after some guy was shoot by the police and his family and friends got angry and then it got to something bigger. The guy probably was out of control and needed to be shot.

[Flexo 98]

randoms got involved after some guy was shoot by the police and his family and friends got angry and then it got to something bigger. The guy probably was out of control and needed to be shot. But, I'm sure there is non-lethal ways to take down a threat right?

Either way, I just saw one guy near the bullring taking one 32 inch tv LOL

[nacirema]

police acused of planting a gun at the scene...

seems to be the trendy thing to do in the UK.

[ilovebender.com]

I hate the hood lol 'I need a vaction'

Sorry.

[nacirema]

atleast y'all aren't being lied too, like when that bombing happened way back in i think 07.

but i get a kick seeing the police on TV, i don't think i could take them seriously. use a fucking non lethal weapon, like they do in america.

[ilovebender.com]

I don't like what I'm hearing to be honest, politricans quoteing statistics, dates, and asking the very same question I am... WHY! and the police are still saying it's criminal this, criminal that... I hate what I'm being told, even if it's not lies, it's just bloody lame stuff comming from the top. It's like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and no offense, but these copy cat riots across the country are bringing more politians with facts and dates going blah blah blah blah not since blah blah blah blah... That's the BBC News for you, the other one; Sky News (Fox News in the UK) are better, but there too biased towards the police. Talk Radio, now THAT'S where it's at :P

[Flexo 98]

I saw everyone booing Nick Clegg. Every mans taking what they want lol

[nacirema]

they just need to use force.

it's going to turn into the watts riots, here soon.

tho, i do enjoy watching the BBC news, they're stupid. lol.

[ilovebender.com]

I heard we haven't declared a riot yet so we can't use force like France does with their water cannons; and insurance companys are going to say 'act of god'... but if/when a riot gets declared (I know! It's shocking) - If/When that happens, then we get water cannons and shop owners can claim back their losses.

[nacirema]

oh, it's a riot.

i guess the UK version of a riot is different from the american.

[Flexo 98]

It's definately a riot, you have kids like aged 9, 10, 11 robbing from shops lol

[ilovebender.com]

Not in London it's not... Shop Owners are f**ked until one gets declared.

I am aware it's a riot and am apauded that one hasn't been declared yet, hence no water canons and confusion over insurance.

[nacirema]

man, i wish i was in london.

i'd be gettin my lootin on, that's for sure.

[Flexo 98]

I live in birmingham lol

[ilovebender.com]

man, i wish i was in london.

i'd be gettin my lootin on, that's for sure.
BELIEF ME, I have been tempted... But no, I'm gonna sit this one out. lol

[Flexo 98]

I've been tempted too, but not looking to get arrested tonight lol

[ilovebender.com]

I don't think it's worth it, ruining my life because of some petrol bomb or getting the shit kicked out of me and or getting arrested... NOT worth it... and nothing's open too.

I'm sitting here in my home in Croydon, surrounded by it and people acting crazier than usual.

Alarms, helicopters, sirens, I even heard 2 explosions yesterday and smelt someting burning.

[nacirema]

pussy, what's the worst thing that could happen jail?

lol.

[ilovebender.com]

Worst thing - I'm being spoon fed by my family when I'm 45 by meeting the wrong end of a brick.

Fuck the riot.

[Flexo 98]

My bro was nearly caught LOL

[ilovebender.com]

I don't trust my brother not to be rioting, tbh.

[nacirema]

man, you just lost points ilb.

i thought you were cool, LOL.

[ilovebender.com]

yup, not gonna go out like that nac lol

[nacirema]

i'd be looting the electronics stores.

and if your countries not calling it a riot, why's this thread called the england riots? lol.

[Flexo 98]

oh well, it'll be over in a matter of days (hopefully)

[ilovebender.com]

I hear helicopters and sirens, but no more than usual, I'd say it's already died down here.

[nacirema]

oh you UKers.

oh you.

[ilovebender.com]

lol, I'm Ghetto UK... sucks, but, what you gonna do?

It's not even like I'm poor ghetto neither, I'm crime let's all be inner city minority gangsters type of ghetto UK.

And not to be funny, but the Occult love my town too, witches, all that shit brews here, I'm on the Hell Mouth and we're too ghetto about it where I live lol - I feel.

[Flexo 98]

Hahaha, I'm ghetto UK as well. lol

[ilovebender.com]

I wanna be upper class UK, living in the square mile in London or some where really f**king posh lol

[Flexo 98]

I could never EVER picture myself being posh. Y'know, drinking the tea and eating the scones. *Shivers*

[ilovebender.com]

I'd be me, but my house and neighbours would be a lot nicer.

[Flexo 98]

lol so would mine.

http://www.twitvid.com/AZNAM

Heres vids of whats going on in Birmingham lol, i shouldn't even be laughing though

[ilovebender.com]

I laughed when Brixton rioted, becuase there was looting...


Infact, before I found out about my beloved Guitar shop, I was like... Somone got hurt, that's sad :(, Fire, OH NO! Looting, ha ha ha ha... I did crack a little laugh when ever people mentioned the looting.

[Flexo 98]

I don't help the police, but I don't help the looters. I let them be stupid.

Buut, Don't get me wrong, the looting looks sooo fun LOL

[nacirema]

theres no ghetto in london.

[ilovebender.com]

I'm urban then, whatever. Though Brixton, that's ghetto.

[nacirema]

when you've been to the south side of chicago, you'll see hood. that place is fuckin crazy.

y'all are livin 'posh' compaired to what the hood is.

[ilovebender.com]

I am SO glad I don't live in Chicago's ghetto, not that I'd hate the people or anything, but the winter's are just a little too cold, from what I've heard. - Winter time here is mild in comparison, I think (from what I've heard about blizzards and feet of snow on cars and stuff.)

[nacirema]

gotta love lake michigan.

they do have some pretty rad blizzards.

i love the mid wests winter time...best season besides fall of 'em all.

the TV was just talking about how the police are gaining ground on these 'riots' tho they also explained that the government hasn't called it a riot. they also went on to breifly explain what you were talking about earlier with the insurance factors.

[ilovebender.com]

My winter clothes aren't warm enough to handle that, though if I was in Chicago, I'd buy stuff out there, built for the climate and stuff. Like warmer or thicker or something. - Just stuff built to handle the conditions of winter time in Chicago.

I remember in secondary school (high school), I did a science report about the Sears Tower because we all had to do a report on archtecture and pick a building to study.

[nacirema]

i love how they refer to this guy as 'the black man'.

bullshit tho, that he didn't fire 'his' weapon.

[Hussypuff]

Kind of looks like the streets on GTA when I begin massacring :P

[Flexo 98]

Thats the best way to describe it lol

[Yoshirama]

But, I'm sure there is non-lethal ways to take down a threat right?

Either way, I just saw one guy near the bullring taking one 32 inch tv LOL

there is teaser guns but if a guy is stupid enough so the police shoot them, there isn't much point of them living in the world. they are a waste of space. It is harsh but it is true.

[Flexo 98]

But it's still another life on the Earth. Police officers shouldn't have the power to take a life without the threat showing any signs of violence (e.g pulling out a gun or knife). Especially, If it's harmful to anyone around them. I think shooting someone is the last resort to violence.

[Hussypuff]

I wouldn't kill anyone unless they had a weapon and were threatening my life.

[Yoshirama]

he probably was out of control otherwise trained officers wouldn't shoot. He was most likely putting others life in danger.

[Flexo 98]

Probably, but the news or saying their are no evidence. Purpose or not, a riot isn't going to solve anything lol

[Yoshirama]

Indeed, people who didn't even know this man joined in, it is just stupid.

[Flexo 98]

http://www.twitvid.com/U598G

We're boned lol

[Yoshirama]

how long are you guessing this will go on for? how many have been arrested?

[Flexo 98]

Birmingham has 130 arrests
I don't know about Croydon, but to see more you should type in "2011 London Riots" in Wikipedia

[Yoshirama]

i am guess quite a few arrests have been made.

[ilovebender.com]

Last I heard something like 683 people were arrested in London over monday night's riots, the town, from here where I live in Thornton Heath to the centre of the borough is completely f**ked up. Guys standing outside shops with machetes busses on divert, every shop looted... It was a lot more tense than I thought with people getting dragged out of their cars and mugged and attacked in West Croydon left right and centre.

[Teesside Native]

They are behaving worse than the football hooligans.

[ilovebender.com]

I'm scared that if the world ends, I'd be a pussy/wimp to afraid to go out in the carnage.


This disturbs me :P

[nacirema]

you will be the first british person to commit suicide.

[ilovebender.com]

I'm way too proud for that, trust me, that is ONE WAY I will not go out, is suicide.

[nacirema]

i wanted to be nice, we all know you'd be raped.

LOL.

[SuicideBooth]

I'm scared that if the world ends, I'd be a pussy/wimp to afraid to go out in the carnage.


This disturbs me :P

And by world you mean a small area in England? lol

[nacirema]

shhh, that's HIS world.

i turned on the news, and y'all didn't even make the highlights.

must be over.

[SuicideBooth]

Riots only last a few days, if not one. We actually had a riot here in our capital a few years ago. Russians got pissed we took down their Bronze Soldier statue.

[nacirema]

riots are fun.

[ilovebender.com]

And by world you mean a small area in England? lolI mean what I see out side, hear a helicopter right now, or, something, lol... I keep hearing helicopters! - I mean the world, my world, your world, you know The World. - It's so big, we're all on it and get a little part of it. lol

[nacirema]

ohh, englands not even news worthy anymore.

LOL.

y'all aren't on american media.

[ilovebender.com]

riots are fun.
Yeah, if you're 15 with a petrol bomb LOL

*likefuckthatshit, I'mastayhomeandgethigh and thereisn'tevenanyneedforthespacebaranymore, fuck that shit lol likekatwilliamssay'fuckthatshit' lol

[SuicideBooth]

- I mean the world, my world, your world, you know The World. - It's so big, we're all on it and get a little part of it. lol

Yeeaahh, that makes sense... lol

[nacirema]

if you're stoned.

i woulda understood that statement.

[ilovebender.com]

I prefer real life to telly.

[SuicideBooth]

I prefer Video Games to real life.

[nacirema]

i prefer money over bitches.

[ilovebender.com]

Nac,

translastion;

*like fuck that shit - ma' nig*a, I'm a stay home and get high and, there isn't even ANY NEED! For the spacebar anymore - Fuck that shit. Like Kat Williams say
"fuck that shit."

[nacirema]

nigga. i can read.

[ilovebender.com]

:D I still felt like saying it :P

[nacirema]

I mean what I see out side, hear a helicopter right now, or, something, lol... I keep hearing helicopters! - I mean the world, my world, your world, you know The World. - It's so big, we're all on it and get a little part of it. lol

i was talking about this.

[ilovebender.com]

What?

That's just how I see it, you step outside, you're in the world. It's a big world :)
Heck, your house, or where ever, you're all in it/on it lol. Earth, is just outside people lol

THIS, is what upsets me the most out of all this, that place there called Rock Bottom... Love/loved that place.

gDgxEYTQk50
It's where that NZ guy worked too.

That place was amazing.

I STILL hear helicopters gosh darn it, and I just heard sirens, again.

[frys_red_jacket]

we need one of those huge hoses turned on them all like what we see on tv lol
either that or a bullet to all their heads

[Yoshirama]

what a mess have they made.

[Hussypuff]

i wanted to be nice, we all know you'd be raped.

LOL.

LOL.

The only way to go.