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  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,608
    I'm on the Fucking bus, been diverted from mare Street round the back, now approaching the bottom of the narrow way... Very slowly... Helicopters out now.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,138
    Mare Street Hackney now closed each way
  • cafcdan37
    cafcdan37 Posts: 96
    LBC is again the best place to follow this
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,110
    What a sad state of affairs that people cant go to work and earn an honest living cos of a group of theiving scumbags. The police and government need to do something drastic and fast to make an example of these shits before it really does escalate out of control and we have complete anarchy.
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,617
    Country is F'cked. No laws to stop these now. Only going to get worse.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Watch Sky news. Some "race advisor" saying its all because black men die at the hands of the police" (white people of course never do!) but behind him the whole time he is talking bollox is a guy with a lighter sparking it up at the camera ?

    Was thinking of starting a Ltd Company up and calling it "Vigilanties R Us" armed to the teath we will sit in ur shop/hse all night and any yoot/gangsta gets in gets chopped up and burned. We get £50 a head (or foot) and they a blue plaque on the outside of the shop that Red Wedge can march to to celebrate the death of another hero of their revalution. Id give it two days before we are all nicked and get 5 times the prison term that any looter gets.
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,175
    shutting down twitter atleast for the meantime would be an idea.
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    Capital radio reporting of disturbances in hackney
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    shutting down twitter atleast for the meantime would be an idea.
    Sadly I doubt Twitter care.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,467
    edited August 2011
    Watch Sky news. Some "race advisor" saying its all because black men die at the hands of the police" (white people of course never do!)
    Yeah I'm watching that too. Must say I agree with whitey there.

    The rest of your post is absolutely horrific, though. Has no place on this forum.

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  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,149
    shutting down twitter atleast for the meantime would be an idea.
    How exactly will that help? Surely it's better for any planning they do to be done over a 'public' domain, if the police can manage to monitor football forums searching out hooligans I'm sure they can track these idiots discussing their plans on twitter.
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    shutting down twitter atleast for the meantime would be an idea.
    How exactly will that help? Surely it's better for any planning they do to be done over a 'public' domain, if the police can manage to monitor football forums searching out hooligans I'm sure they can track these idiots discussing their plans on twitter.
    Even if the police know, they dont seem to be able to do anything about it.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,149
    Exactly, so how will shutting twitter down help at all?

    Atleast this way they have details and posts to follow up after the event.
  • PaulCAFC
    PaulCAFC Posts: 857
    Police car in Hackney being trashed and riot Police being deployed from St John's Churchyard near Narroway.
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,175
    Do all these people involved know each other then? Twitter would stop the communication. Sounds like one group of people talk of thrashing places, other yobs see it and think I'll have a bit of that.
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    edited August 2011
    I guess his point was to stop the initial organisation of the problem. Obviously it is to late to do such a thing now.
    Anyway, twitter is not the only way for things to go viral.

    Twitter isnt as dominant as its made out. Its preferred by celebs and co to other social networks, but something like facebook is an immediate alternative to tweeters.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,475
    Do all these people involved know each other then? Twitter would stop the communication. Sounds like one group of people talk of thrashing places, other yobs see it and think I'll have a bit of that.
    It's nothing to do with Twitter. The crap on Twitter is just a bunch of wannabe bellends spreading rumours. It's being spread using Blackberry IM. Besides - much as all this is utterly reprehensible, even if it were technically possible to 'shut down' Twitter/RIM's IM client (it is, but it's very difficult) it would just spread to another medium. SMS for instance. What are you going to do then, shut down SMS messaging?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,095
    Twitter does not spread information, people do.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,110
    cant use SMS..mans got no credit.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,959
    Im interested to know how there was enough OB to batter students and other protesters, yet cant handle 30-40 young lads with sticks

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  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Just watching the BBC News channel, coverage.

    Kids just walking around Hackney looting any shops they want whilst Riot Police stand there.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    the footage on BBC News is horrible, watching youths kicking windows through and stealing chairs so they can smash other shops. Really awful to watch, and the police can't do much, having chairs, and stools thrown at them. People are stuck on buses in Hackney unsure whether to get off or stay on until the bus can move into a safer area. 

    It's not just blokes either, plenty of young women involved in the protests. 


  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    Im interested to know how there was enough OB to batter students and other protesters, yet cant handle 30-40 young lads with sticks
    ...because they knew where they were goinig to be and could allocate resources appropriately.
  • PaulCAFC
    PaulCAFC Posts: 857
    Oh god here we go again - Power to the People....... afternoon Shine166
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,959
    Oh god here we go again - Power to the People....... afternoon Shine166
    good afternoon, just call me Citizen Smith
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    theyve opened up the back of a lorry stuck in traffic filled with wood and furniture and they're emptying it out to use as weapons. 
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Just opened up a back of a lorry and are now walking around with large planks of wood
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,095
    edited August 2011
    How far away from martial law then? Seriously.
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,792
    Riot police should be rushing em and sticking there battons up there fecking asses
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,351
    Carnage brewing in Hackney. On Sky News now.




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