They are wrecking my home.
The events in London are deeply unsettling, as I consider it my second home and the place I've felt safest in the world. I understand that severe frustrations are at the root or rather origin of the riots, but the current looting events and pointless, mindless violence are disgusting.
With the reports of Currys being looted whilst Waterstones right next to it remain completely untouched, at least I can rest assured my kind of places enjoy a slightly higher security setting by default. Maybe if the looters and robbers actually DID read a book every so often, they wouldn't be such enormous ... arseholes, really.
Amongst reports of people being dragged off their bikes and out of their cars, ransacked for their mobiles, beaten to a pulp for their notebooks, I fear for my friends in London.
I've always felt completely, utterly safe in London. Never for a second did I fear any harm. I am not even kidding. I know London as a friendly, welcoming place (as long as you know where not to go at two in morning). I couldn't wait to move back there. Still can't. But this saddens me so much.
With the reports of Currys being looted whilst Waterstones right next to it remain completely untouched, at least I can rest assured my kind of places enjoy a slightly higher security setting by default. Maybe if the looters and robbers actually DID read a book every so often, they wouldn't be such enormous ... arseholes, really.
Amongst reports of people being dragged off their bikes and out of their cars, ransacked for their mobiles, beaten to a pulp for their notebooks, I fear for my friends in London.
I've always felt completely, utterly safe in London. Never for a second did I fear any harm. I am not even kidding. I know London as a friendly, welcoming place (as long as you know where not to go at two in morning). I couldn't wait to move back there. Still can't. But this saddens me so much.