All these riots everywhere!!!

[xemmax]

So this is what they are looting now? Nice stash mate.

https://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg620/scaled.php?tn=0&server=620&filename=y7o2.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Perfectly demonstrates how pointless this is... theft for the sake of theft.

What's the point, they're idiots

Fuelled by greed. Absolutely pathetic.

 

[Sarah&Ady]

Some other news, was anyone following this story....

A mother accused of killing her two young children has been found guilty of their murders.

Fiona Donnison, 45, of Lightwater, Surrey, had denied the murder of Harry, aged three, and two-year-old Elise, in a trial at Lewes Crown Court.

Their bodies were found in holdalls in the boot of Ms Donnison's car, near the former family home in East Sussex.

The prosecution claimed she killed them to hurt their father, Paul. The defence claimed she had depression at the time.

Jurors heard claims Ms Donnison, a former City worker, used the children as the "ultimate pawns", by killing them in order to hurt their father in the most extreme way possible.

Prosecutors told the court she smothered the children with their bedding before putting their bodies in the car.

Ms Donnison declined to give evidence herself during the trial.

But the defence argued she had suffered from depression at the time and said the charges should be reduced to manslaughter.

Jurors heard from mental health professionals who said she swallowed a blade from a pencil sharpener earlier this year, could not remember events surrounding the deaths, and could not bring herself to say the children's names.

 

[Rhio92]

I just don't understand... How can these people have no consciences?

 

[Lellow]

I liked this quote. Completely rings true:

Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams - "Everyone wants to be rich and famous, without wanting to work hard to reach those otherwise acceptable ambitions. So I think the prime motivators behind the looting are greed and jealousy, rather than sorrow and anger. Basic human failings that have been around forever. Not contemporary political gripes but certainly contemporary social malaise."

 

[CRWx]

Me either Rhiannon

I don't understand how they can be so mindless and just destroy where they live, if it was the city say "closing" these shops, they'd be the first to rebel.

 

[LulaBug]

There was a recording of 2 girls from Croydon talking to the news about the rioting, having picked up "free" booze from the offie, had been drinking all night, were loving what was going and were hoping it would continue on tonight!! Fucking C***s!!

 

[StarrySkies]

Just listening to the news on the BBC and they were talking to two teenage girls and they were basically saying they are robbing the rich people (as in shops and buisnesses) because they can and that they really hope the rioting carries on tonight

Are they really that stupid! Infact don't answer that!
I'm so angry!
x

 

[CRWx]

watching the destruction in Birmingham, police station set on fire, all the shops are smashed, cashpoints, bull ring's been done apparently

 

[StarrySkies]

There was a recording of 2 girls from Croydon talking to the news about the rioting, having picked up "free" booze from the offie, had been drinking all night, were loving what was going and were hoping it would continue on tonight!! Fucking C***s!!

Ha I must have been posting just as you were!
x

 

[CRWx]

More police in Birmingham tonight aswell. Riots being planned for 5pm

 

[Rhio92]

Someone please end this madness Our children weren't mean't to be brought into a world like this...

 

[LulaBug]

There was a recording of 2 girls from Croydon talking to the news about the rioting, having picked up "free" booze from the offie, had been drinking all night, were loving what was going and were hoping it would continue on tonight!! Fucking C***s!!

Ha I must have been posting just as you were!
x

Great minds think alike! At least our minds are sane and decent

 

[CRWx]

 

[indy and lara]

I liked this quote. Completely rings true:

Lib Dem MP Stephen Williams - "Everyone wants to be rich and famous, without wanting to work hard to reach those otherwise acceptable ambitions. So I think the prime motivators behind the looting are greed and jealousy, rather than sorrow and anger. Basic human failings that have been around forever. Not contemporary political gripes but certainly contemporary social malaise."

I really do think that this is a huge part of what is going on now. People want to get rich quick. We live in a celebrity obsessed culture and people seem to think that they deserve the same lifestyle. People run up ridiculous debts in order to keep up with the Jones and have the latest gadgets/ clothes/ etc. What really matters in life (health, family, love..) have been brushed aside by many and all that matters are material possessions. Instead of working for these things, the looters of the last few days are just going straight to the ultimate quick fix- smash and grab.

Family values is a much used Tory phrase but we do have to take a good look at our society and ask ourselves what on earth is going on. I cannot imagine my parents not knowing I was out looting and causing mayhem when I was 12. Seriously. Ask yourself as a parent, can you imagine not knowing where your chid is at that age? What on earth is happening in families when kids can be involved in things like this and their parents are not standing there saying, 'No you bl@@dy well are not'. There has always not been enough for kids to do. My parents grew up in the 50s and there was 'nothing to do'. I grew up in the 70s/ 80s and it was no different. It is a much used excuse but in reality, it is how it has always been.

 

[CRWx]

They need to shut down BBM, that's where broadcasts are happening about riots in certain areas

I still can't believe Camden was done, I LOVED Camden, I bet Amy Winehouse is turning in her grave

 

[LittleBoo]

I can't be the only one who's scared, I've been bursting into tears randomly all day. What if it doesn't stop? What if it spreads further, til it's not just the bigger cities? I'm only 20 minutes away from Manchester city center, and I can't stop thinking of what could happen. I feel so, so sorry for all the people living in the riot areas right now. Not usually one to be scared by such things, maybe it's just because I'm due to give birth soon and my hormones are going crazy

 

[Sarah&Ady]

They need to shut down BBM, that's where broadcasts are happening about riots in certain areas

I still can't believe Camden was done, I LOVED Camden, I bet Amy Winehouse is turning in her grave

I heard that the electric ballroom got done over.. is that true??

 

[CRWx]

I'm scared too LitteBoo.. I was awake until 5.45 this morning because I was scared what I'd wake up to.

 

[tallybee]

LittleBoo and to everyone really...

 

[CRWx]

Yep it's true all the gig places have gone too apparently