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  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,007

    Got a live feed on here, doesn't seem like anything is going on at the moment.

     

    http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/news/live_london_riots_news_updates_and_your_comments_from_across_the_capital_1_989036

  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,580
    Hardly a great advert for the olympics. So many shops being looted really feel angry more than anything.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,255
    Went home at two by car. Roads busy leaving town. All quiet in Charlton but all shops boarded up. So is Greenwich.

    Just precautionary stuff and no disorder. Well apart from people panic buying in the coop shooters hill... the only shop we found open.

    Just crazy.
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Love the Broom Army.
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,566
    The FTSE is back up today so I reckon it will all be calm tonight
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,200
    Quiet at Lakeside.


  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,706

     

    Rumours spreading that Charlton and Millwall fans are defending Eltham High Street.
    Get in!
    And EDL
    Hope this doesn't become a race based issue because all the pictures show a cross section of low-life society out to cause trouble and steal anything that isn't nailed down. as for fans mobbing up and protecting their own, i'm up for that. i've been talking to people in sheffield today and we discussed how we'd handle it if it kicks of here. i know they say you shouldn't take the law into your own hands, but if people are not going to be protected then they should be allowed to protect themselves and their properties. my partner lived in down-town LA during the roits and had her balcony shot at when local store owners holed themselves up above their stores waiting for the looters to turn up. over their they down mess about due to the right to own guns and it being written into their constitution that they have a legal right to protect themselves. i hope that any CAFC fans that mob up tonight are doing it out of a genuine passion for their area and not just an opportunity to have a good punch up. Good luck to all across the Capital and also large towns.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,255
    Sorry Gary for rowing.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,007

    Give him a cuddle.

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,107
    tbf i probably deserved a slap. sorry

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  • Kiely#1
    Kiely#1 Posts: 258

    Addickted said:



    Maidstone is closing up apparently, sounds like everyone is taking precautions.

    Full of happy shoppers and a roaring trade being done by the retailers when I left under an hour ago.

    and that is still the case as I sit looking at the high street from my flat people are still wandering round shopping peacefully

     

    Looks like I can't even trust my own wife's reports then! Silly moo!
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,007
    Give me a cuddle.
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    New Eltham is peaceful, few shops shut but thats about it
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,566
    Get a room
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,191
    I want a cuddle aswell :(
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,423
    if Cameron can pledge 16,000 police on the streets or on standby tonight, why was this number not available before. London has been burdened with a string of Commissioners and senior officers who appear to be more interested in politicking and back slapping/glad handing than policing. London needs and deserves a Police Commissioner who is left alone to do his job(s) .. i.e. organise and implement the detection and prevention of crime no matter how 'petty' or 'victimless', from shoplifting to multiple murder. Political correctness and social equality needs to be put back in the hands of the army of 'social workers' (usually idiots who are unemployable in any other field and who are financed by a variety of charity and outreach schemes). The social workers can be locked in a quiet or sondproofed room where they can rant and moan all day and no-one will pay any attention to them. 
  • cafcdan37
    cafcdan37 Posts: 96
    edited August 2011
    Latest from Bromley


    Summary is nothing happening at all.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    What on earth is going on
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,007

    I'm sorry JT.

  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 3,881
    just been told we are finishing at 5pm (i work in Bromley) Nothing going on prob a precaution. We have been liasiing with ob

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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,255
    Lol we can all have a group hug.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Eltham highstreet all shops closed apart from a crappy newsagents - Police everywhere. The riots are growing and spreading. How longs all this crap going to go on for? Its such a joke. Just get the bloody army in now!
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Lots of Millwall gathered at Surrey Quays to beat the sh*t out of the rioters
  • Benny Hill
    Benny Hill Posts: 388
    I bet after a few pints the EDL/hooligan lot will switch from defending shops to looting themselves. A lot of the people who attend riots are football firms anyway.
    Your right all of this is down to football thugs well done.
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,566
    I bet you they dont . £100
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Eltham highstreet all shops closed apart from a crappy newsagents - Police everywhere. The riots are growing and spreading. How longs all this crap going to go on for? Its such a joke. Just get the bloody army in now!
    I think for now the riots aren't spreading, the precautions are spreading. different thing. 
  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,338
    Westbromich has had several shops attacked, confirmed on BBC.
  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,290

    Lets be honest, theres a good chance it will be quiet tonight, the looters took advantage of a low police presence present throughout the streets of london. There chances of getting away with it tonight are much slimmer.

    The only problem is we wont be able to keep up this substantial amount of policing 24/7 - 365!!!

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,134
    Smashed windows in West Bromwich, 200 youths ... only sign so far today
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,465
    Shops getting smashed in West Brom. BBC News.
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