Thank you, you sweethearts!
Thank you, everyone who emailed/P.M'd to check if we were alright. I love you all!
Yeah, I'm ever so slightly pissed off about the riots. Okay, I get that at the beginning people had reason to be upset, but this is ridiculous. I don't even live anywhere near what they're calling the 'hot' areas, but we still had people on our street setting fire to piles of rubbish and tipping over a car.
...Seriously. It wasn't even a porsche/merc or something expensive and awesome. It was some little old guy's Daihatsu camper - an old, rustbucket type car. I think the only reason they went for it is because it was taller and would tip easier.
My sister was on her way home from work last night at 11pm, saw a wave of guys coming towards her and ducked into the pub (clever girl!). They were barricading themselves in when the rioters started smashing pub windows and ripped off a door. She did make it home in the end, though, before the second wave with the whole car-tipping thing, so yay!
At one point the police ran away. To be fair, there was only one car with two policemen in it and about thirty rioters coming towards them. I would have run, too.
I know a lot of people are joining in for the chaos of it and to nick stuff but, really, it's not safe. Kids as young as ten in the streets? Scary. A group of girls smashed the windows of an accessories shop...to get designer handbags. It's not really about principles anymore, if it even ever was. Attacking ambulances? That's just stupid because what happens if you then get hurt or your mum needs an ambulance?
Now it's just about nicking things. And setting fires. Scary...but just a little bit pathetic.
And apparently Enfield Park's on fire right now. FFS. *headdesk*
What are your stories of the riots? I hope everyone around London/Birmingham's okay. Keep safe, darlings.
EDIT: Parliament are to be recalled...except what, really, are they going to be able to do? People are saying they should call out the army to deal with it, and I'm inclined to agree atm.
Lots of sirens around here. Apparently there was looting on Portobello earlier, but it's not really confirmed.
Also, after social networking sites have been used to co-ordinate rioting and looting, now they're being used to co-ordinate the clean-up. Due thanks to everyone involved in clearing up. Police were cheered over in Clapham earlier, apparently.
And the Olympics are 'safe' but the Carnival is just going to be so much fun. If they let the Carnival go ahead, there'll be the chance of it exploding. If they stop the Carnival...well. That'll just make everything worse.
Apparently copycat rioting spreading further - Oxford, Reading, Liverpool etc. Hope everyone's okay. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
EDIT: Okay, so apparently Cameron's maybe not going to call in the army? (Although, if this carries on, he won't have much choice!) And the rest of the world is all disapproving and it's embarrassing, frankly. What the rest of the world are saying.
EDIT: Taken from the BBC - A BBC journalist has spoken to two girls that took part in Monday night's riots in Croydon, who boasted that they were showing police and "the rich" that "we can do what we want".
The pair were drinking wine looted from a local shop at 09:30 BST the following morning. (There's video/audio as well.)
Morons.
Yeah, I'm ever so slightly pissed off about the riots. Okay, I get that at the beginning people had reason to be upset, but this is ridiculous. I don't even live anywhere near what they're calling the 'hot' areas, but we still had people on our street setting fire to piles of rubbish and tipping over a car.
...Seriously. It wasn't even a porsche/merc or something expensive and awesome. It was some little old guy's Daihatsu camper - an old, rustbucket type car. I think the only reason they went for it is because it was taller and would tip easier.
My sister was on her way home from work last night at 11pm, saw a wave of guys coming towards her and ducked into the pub (clever girl!). They were barricading themselves in when the rioters started smashing pub windows and ripped off a door. She did make it home in the end, though, before the second wave with the whole car-tipping thing, so yay!
At one point the police ran away. To be fair, there was only one car with two policemen in it and about thirty rioters coming towards them. I would have run, too.
I know a lot of people are joining in for the chaos of it and to nick stuff but, really, it's not safe. Kids as young as ten in the streets? Scary. A group of girls smashed the windows of an accessories shop...to get designer handbags. It's not really about principles anymore, if it even ever was. Attacking ambulances? That's just stupid because what happens if you then get hurt or your mum needs an ambulance?
Now it's just about nicking things. And setting fires. Scary...but just a little bit pathetic.
And apparently Enfield Park's on fire right now. FFS. *headdesk*
What are your stories of the riots? I hope everyone around London/Birmingham's okay. Keep safe, darlings.
EDIT: Parliament are to be recalled...except what, really, are they going to be able to do? People are saying they should call out the army to deal with it, and I'm inclined to agree atm.
Lots of sirens around here. Apparently there was looting on Portobello earlier, but it's not really confirmed.
Also, after social networking sites have been used to co-ordinate rioting and looting, now they're being used to co-ordinate the clean-up. Due thanks to everyone involved in clearing up. Police were cheered over in Clapham earlier, apparently.
And the Olympics are 'safe' but the Carnival is just going to be so much fun. If they let the Carnival go ahead, there'll be the chance of it exploding. If they stop the Carnival...well. That'll just make everything worse.
Apparently copycat rioting spreading further - Oxford, Reading, Liverpool etc. Hope everyone's okay. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
EDIT: Okay, so apparently Cameron's maybe not going to call in the army? (Although, if this carries on, he won't have much choice!) And the rest of the world is all disapproving and it's embarrassing, frankly. What the rest of the world are saying.
EDIT: Taken from the BBC - A BBC journalist has spoken to two girls that took part in Monday night's riots in Croydon, who boasted that they were showing police and "the rich" that "we can do what we want".
The pair were drinking wine looted from a local shop at 09:30 BST the following morning. (There's video/audio as well.)
Morons.