London and England riots
- Thread starter Alex.
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- 7,116
- Birmingham, UK
- GOTMAXPOWER
This is disgusting, totally unrelated to the original shooting and being used as an excuse for anarchy. On a positive side 200-300 thugs in Birmingham have been trapped by police, lets hope they're arrested asap.
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I like this idea. I recall there being something capable of bringing people to their knees on the Military channel. Sounds great right about now.
I see the search and rescue helicopter about 4-5 times a day near me. It will go out at the weakest of excuses, lost dog etc.
If an actual human is in danger a huge amount of resources are invested in it.
You must live in a place where the emergency forces don't care about doing anything.
But it might be that mine are too eager to do anything and would rather be up in the air than be ready on the ground.
Anyway I don't get cities, they are a mystery to me.
I'm not claiming to be an expert.
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- UK
Shameful.
Time for Cameron to be a leader, he's one of the reasons the country has gone up the *******, time for him to step up to the plate and back his police and allow them to do whatever is necessary.
Comes down my way and I'll be doing what those Turks have been doing, they've got the right frame of mind. Though am in a retirement town, so probably not.
All you GTP Londoners/Brummies out there, stay safe.
Time for Cameron to be a leader, he's one of the reasons the country has gone up the *******, time for him to step up to the plate and back his police and allow them to do whatever is necessary.
Comes down my way and I'll be doing what those Turks have been doing, they've got the right frame of mind. Though am in a retirement town, so probably not.
All you GTP Londoners/Brummies out there, stay safe.
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- GTP_fusflash
I was really surprised how the situation got out of hand but than I thought that it's actually cold calculation by the looters. They seen how the first incidents have been dealt with and thought that there are pretty good chances that they can get away with looting a shop or two.
If the first incidents were contained quicker and with more immediate consequences for the looters than the following looting would be much less probable to happen.
I don't think the UK police has enough power to deal with the looting as it should. Where I come from the incident like that would have been contained with water cannons and plastic bullets quite decisively (it is not a protest against anything, it is a clear criminal activity fueled by greed!) It makes me feel quite uneasy being in London right now.
For whatever reason the police force lost it's deterring factor.
If the first incidents were contained quicker and with more immediate consequences for the looters than the following looting would be much less probable to happen.
I don't think the UK police has enough power to deal with the looting as it should. Where I come from the incident like that would have been contained with water cannons and plastic bullets quite decisively (it is not a protest against anything, it is a clear criminal activity fueled by greed!) It makes me feel quite uneasy being in London right now.
For whatever reason the police force lost it's deterring factor.
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- UK, B'ham
- npanchal / GTP_N99GT
SurebossShameful.
Time for Cameron to be a leader, he's one of the reasons the country has gone up the *******, time for him to step up to the plate and back his police and allow them to do whatever is necessary.
Comes down my way and I'll be doing what those Turks have been doing, they've got the right frame of mind. Though am in a retirement town, so probably not.
lol yerh be part of the 'big society' or whatever that muppet came up with...!
- 7,116
- Birmingham, UK
- GOTMAXPOWER
Members not signed in? People looking for info (there's a lot on here)
btw lots of info here for the Birmingham riots http://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=217353058314772&view=feed&filter=14&refid=17
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- Cambridge
- Moglet85
- Moglet
We're on page 4 of a Google search for 'London Rioting' so that explains it. Funny that of all the websites in the world, what is essentially a Gran Turismo forum is on page 4 when you search for info on the riots!
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- Birmingham, UK
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dhandeh
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- dhandes
It's a good community
Unlike the idiots which have caused us to be posting here, and to be honest I wish we weren't.
- 7,116
- Birmingham, UK
- GOTMAXPOWER
From what I've read the looting in Birmingham has been concentrated on the city centre (unlike London where its in residential areas too) and there are no reports of arson so its less likely their are serious injuries
You are asking if that is acceptable solution.
It's not an overall solution, it's just the solution to protect people in danger.
Worry about the people, then any property afterwards.
Let London burn if it has to burn. Evacuate the whole population to France or something, it doesn't matter. My point was just prioritising people over buildings.
And that i'm against people with guns getting involved.
I don't know what the big solution is, just my concerns about developments.
I just imagine weaponised force making the situation much worse. And perhaps morally wrong. But I'm all ears to the debate and options.
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- Canada
- DismissiveClOCK
Why don't we go out and incite very dramatic pacifism?
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