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General discussion for (Tottenham) riots

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  • toadyfrog
    toadyfrog Posts: 918 Forumite
    Maybe now this will shake up all the namby pamby do gooders and they justice system, to stop giving people slaps on the wrists. Now if you get caught with a knife 5 years will mean 5 years, life will mean life. Don't have soft jails have hard labour, no TV's ps3 and everything else. Put them in chain gangs and make them rebuild the cities that they have destroyed.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    FTBFun wrote: »
    Hmmmm. Just found out that my local Tesco Metro and petrol station have both been looted, and the scumbags are also roaming around East Dulwich - utter travesty all this.

    I am not a fan of Tesco and it's principles (like.... it doesn't really have any) but I do feel for their employees at times like this plus anything going down, Tesco always seems to be a target.

    It's really odd that such a hated business takes more £££ from the general public that any other in the UK.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    devotee wrote: »
    I hope your dad is ok too!

    Wonder when Dave comes back if he's going to hug a hoodie now?


    hehehe., though, I suppose to be fair, if we all hugged one, very hard, very enthusiastically , they wouldn't be able to start fires or loot...arms trapped by their sides.
  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    fc123 wrote: »
    ...and Boris according to setmefree.....:j yay..Cameron and Boris to the rescue of suburban London.;)

    Twas on the news... and Ed Milliband too (errrr why? lol!)
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    toadyfrog wrote: »
    . Put them in chain gangs and make them rebuild the cities that they have destroyed.
    I don't think it's quite that bad out here plus setting up 'chain gangs' would be very hard to organise on a practical level. Seriously, it would be almost impossible to set up.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    setmefree2 wrote: »
    Twas on the news... and Ed Milliband too (errrr why? lol!)
    ...cos 3 is better than 2 :)
  • setmefree2
    setmefree2 Posts: 9,072 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    riot police and youth/Scum *cough* on Haven Green in Ealing right now according to twitter
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    toadyfrog wrote: »
    Maybe now this will shake up all the namby pamby do gooders and they justice system, to stop giving people slaps on the wrists. Now if you get caught with a knife 5 years will mean 5 years, life will mean life. Don't have soft jails have hard labour, no TV's ps3 and everything else. Put them in chain gangs and make them rebuild the cities that they have destroyed.
    where will we put them? No room in the prisons. I think its a PITA we have to spend more on these sorts of people when hospitals, schools have to check budgets and so does the average, law abiding person.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    setmefree2 wrote: »
    Personally I think it's more important that the mayor comes back - I don't know but I think London needs their mayor...

    by the way son's friend got a voucher for havng to leave restaurant - says reason for voucher is "riot" now featuring on FB/ Twitter lol...
    :rotfl::rotfl:
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    fc123 wrote: »
    I don't think it's quite that bad out here plus setting up 'chain gangs' would be very hard to organise on a practical level. Seriously, it would be almost impossible to set up.


    Another set of people with dubious morals would probably be keen enough to police it voluntarily.


    I really miss the roll eye smiley.
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