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Post by snowwhite on Aug 9, 2011 11:47:33 GMT
So, I'm not sure how many of you will have seen this in the news...or even if it's being broadcasted in other countries. Anyway, I wrote a quick blog post on it: fractured-fantasy.blogspot.com/2011/08/england-is-melting-down.htmlIt's not particularly factual because there's so many rumours, and so much going on it's hard to keep track off. To be honest, I think everyone's in a state of shock and no one really knows what IS going on. I guess it's just especially weird for my generation in England, because we haven't really experienced anything of this level during our lifetime. Only heard bits about it. It's horrible how close to home it all is. Talk about mob mentality and a nationwide panic right now. Anyway. I just thought I'd share this because I'm feeling just very...weird, about it all. There's been no trouble in my area as of yet, the closest has been Birmingham. But it's spreading every night and I imagine it's only so long until it finds its way even closer...and let's remember England is only a small country as it is, so it doesn't take a lot of spreading before the whole of country has been touched by it!! Edit: Riots in Oxford too. |
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Post by Robynn on Aug 10, 2011 7:24:25 GMT
So, I'm not sure how many of you will have seen this in the news...or even if it's being broadcasted in other countries. Anyway, I wrote a quick blog post on it: fractured-fantasy.blogspot.com/2011/08/england-is-melting-down.htmlIt's not particularly factual because there's so many rumours, and so much going on it's hard to keep track off. To be honest, I think everyone's in a state of shock and no one really knows what IS going on. I guess it's just especially weird for my generation in England, because we haven't really experienced anything of this level during our lifetime. Only heard bits about it. It's horrible how close to home it all is. Talk about mob mentality and a nationwide panic right now. Anyway. I just thought I'd share this because I'm feeling just very...weird, about it all. There's been no trouble in my area as of yet, the closest has been Birmingham. But it's spreading every night and I imagine it's only so long until it finds its way even closer...and let's remember England is only a small country as it is, so it doesn't take a lot of spreading before the whole of country has been touched by it!! Edit: Riots in Oxford too. |
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Post by snowwhite on Aug 10, 2011 8:18:50 GMT
True that.
Another night of riots, and the police are still reluctant to use water cannons etc. Hopefully they'll bring them out tonight, but who knows. I guess they need to get the OK from the government or something.
Riots spreading to smaller areas too. Oxford and Banbury (Very close to me) were only slightly harmed. Appeared to be huge groups of people in Banbury, but scarpered when the police turned up...sounds about right for the people in Banbury!!
My friend is in America at the moment and she said she'd not seen anything about it!! Weird, things like this are usually broadcast world wide.
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Post by stratlady on Aug 13, 2011 1:02:46 GMT
Yeah I heard about this on the news. On the 9 oclock news. Seems like we may hear about this a bit more here?
I am glad to hear that you are okay Keely, I was wondering if you were okay! ;D
I think it must be scary and unsettling for the pple to live in this kind of place. But what scares me the most about this, is the liberties the government is taking in terms of subduing pple's right.
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Post by Robynn on Aug 14, 2011 5:56:36 GMT
Looks like it's over. Get the threat of possible bean bag guns and water canons, and the wimps puss out and go home.
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Post by snowwhite on Aug 14, 2011 8:20:30 GMT
Looks like it's over. Get the threat of possible bean bag guns and water canons, and the wimps puss out and go home. This!! |
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Post by DarkFlare89 on Aug 25, 2011 6:55:55 GMT
I read in a (Yahoo? article) that there was a multitude of people (i.e. not just random hooligans) who took part in the riots/looting, often times because they were just there - like a millionaire's daughter, a ballarina, someone who is WAY too young to be stealing, an (under?)graduate, and so forth. Hmm let me look . . . . . . . . . ah-ha! news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ballerina-olympic-ambassador-arrested-london-sweep-152907901.htmlAt eleven years old, I was enjoying Rugrats (I regret nothing!), but apparently eleven year olds this day and age like throwing rocks at windows (and not the romantic Evanescnece kind either! LOL So Close joke, don't mind me it's 3AM xD). |
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Post by Robynn on Aug 26, 2011 6:06:33 GMT
I read in a (Yahoo? article) that there was a multitude of people (i.e. not just random hooligans) who took part in the riots/looting, often times because they were just there - like a millionaire's daughter, a ballarina, someone who is WAY too young to be stealing, an (under?)graduate, and so forth. Hmm let me look . . . . . . . . . ah-ha! news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ballerina-olympic-ambassador-arrested-london-sweep-152907901.htmlAt eleven years old, I was enjoying Rugrats (I regret nothing!), but apparently eleven year olds this day and age like throwing rocks at windows (and not the romantic Evanescnece kind either! LOL So Close joke, don't mind me it's 3AM xD). Yeah, doing it to be doing it. That's what made it so bad. They had no point they were trying to make. |
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Post by EvenInDeath46 on Sept 11, 2011 16:58:50 GMT
So, they were all rioting for no apparent reason other than just to do it for the sake of it? That seems really dumb and waste of time. Why try to scare people or harm them and their property?
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Post by snowwhite on Sept 13, 2011 21:39:59 GMT
Well, it all started because the police shot a man in Tottenham (London), so the riots started out there in protest and then the rest of the country just decided to use this as an excuse to cause some havoc.
I dunno, seems to me like it was just a lot of people feeling like they're owed something so choosing to take it off others who have worked for it.
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