We're ok. I've lived through 3 riots in this city, and I have never known anything like it. Right now all I can hear are sirens, we're very close to the main high road in Streatham, so we can hear everything. It's 5pm, yesterday it was about this time it started in various suburbs.
Sunday night I was woken at 1.30am when youths in cars and on foot gathered below our bedroom window. I could hear a lot of trouble on the street, there were a number of small gangs out there looting several shops, and these guys were working out where to go next. They were having a whale of a time.
Last night it seems every suburb we border got hit, Croydon worst of all. They've burnt down people's houses as well as businesses. It's just unbelievable. I know Croydon very well, I went to school there for 5 years, it's fucking heart breaking. The kids in Croydon seem to have been the worst so far, car jacking, shooting people, and just setting light to fucking everything they can.
There's some incredible footage on YouTube, if you search for Mark Stone. He was in Clapham Junction last night with his iPhone. He filmed EVERYTHING, got right in these kids faces. He's a journo that lives locally, but a film crew was sent to him later on and he stayed there all night. The footage of these fucking animals ransacking every shop, even hairdressers, I swear to God I've never seen anything like it.
I'm getting more and more angry at these fucking apologists making excuses about poverty. These fucking cunts are already wearing £100 trainers and they all have mobile phones and fucking Blackberrys. That's not even close to poverty. They're just sub-human cunts, every last fucking one of them. I want to see the cops out with tear gas and plastic bullets tonight. My parents had fuck all, I grew up in a council flat, and my parents got shit jobs they hated to pay their way. We didn't have the money for half the stuff these parasitic shits have. If I hear the words 'disenfranchised' and 'disaffected' again I will scream. They're animals, that's all they are.
Sorry to go all right wing on you there, but that's just how it is now. I've just watched a video from Clapham last night where the cops got a looter on the ground and people were cheering as they beat the shit out of him. It's the only thing that's really made me smile today. How fucking sad is that?