Having lived in London for about 10 years, I'm still wondering who did the most damage, the Taliban on the 7th of July '05 or these retards damaging their own country...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc2zuK3eav0&feature=player_embedded[/ame] holy crap, 4:10.. that was where i used to live a few years ago.. got gutted by fire
moving on, interesting google map of riot reports: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=207192798388318292131.0004aa01af6748773e8f7&msa=0&ie=UTF8&ll=51.536086,-0.056305&spn=0.39294,0.630341&z=10&source=embed
http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/10/injured-boy-mugged-in-riot-to-have-psp-replaced-by-scee/ bit a good news for the kid who got mugged...guess they took his psp
The UK is the world's leading producer of pregnant teenagers, so "youth" 10 years ago could have already had a 5 year old child. It sort of depends on how you define youth, but yeah, the math there didn't seem right to me either.
Really? Haha. You've missed some posts in the last two years! :) And I come from a not-very-privileged background, not that it matters. I had to live most of last year in a hostel, sleeping in a room with 10-odd other people; coming 'home' from work/looking for work to find my food eaten, and had my stuff stolen twice (not…
Definitely people taking advantage. NO EXCUSE. But the Police have also managed the whole situation very badly. And the Duggan killing is all a bit suspicious. I live a 10 minute walk from Wood Green high street which was damaged pretty badly on Saturday night when the rioters moved from the worst him Tottenham Hale area.…
Have been following this on the news and tweeting a bit at @hawkenking. Anyway, the papers (the Sun) are now saying that the guy who was shot by marksmen, was unarmed, and the reason the other policeman had a bullet lodged in his radio was that it passed through the body. Which sounds iffy to me as the marksmen use…