trouble in manchester

ethan · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:27

Just following Sky News and they say youths involved in running battles with the police. They mentioned the figure of 2000, don't know if that is a mistake?
Edit: Figure rechecked, 2000 youths

Ricochet J · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:28

Please use the London riot thread.

ethan · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:30

Ricochet J said:
Please use the London riot thread.

My bad, created seperate thread because I couldn't find a Manchester one.

Martini1991 · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:34

Ricochet J said:
Please use the London riot thread.

The thread that's too hard to follow and general riots now and all sorts of other crap

?

willhub · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:39

Why use the London thread? This is about Manchester, why follow a confusing messy thread?

Moothead2 · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:41

Ricochet J said:
Please use the London riot thread.

Until the title is changed, then these seperate threads are fine. It's like talking about the Arsenal v Chelsea match in a thread specific to the Man United v Man City match. Besides, that main thread is a complete cluster****.

MissileMoose · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:42

London is separate from the rest of the UK anyway.

j.col · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:48

yet more looting, if i wasn't such a law abiding citizen, i could be there

arc@css · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:49

Keep the threads separate imo.

Jambo · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:49

willhub said:
Why use the London thread? This is about Manchester, why follow a confusing messy thread?

So we're gonna have a thread for each city?

Reed · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:50

Seeing your home city getting smashed up and on fire is pretty heart breaking

Firestar_3x · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:50

London one is working fine for all citys imho.

VaderDSL · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:50

Jambo said:
So we're gonna have a thread for each city?

Why not, at least people will be able to see potentially important information regarding locations close to them.

MissileMoose · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:51

VaderDSL said:
Why not, at least people will be able to see potentially important information regarding locations close to them.

I call for a new forum section!

SoSolid · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:56

j.col said:
yet more looting, if i wasn't such a law abiding citizen, i could be there

Well you are from Houghton Regis.

VaderDSL · 9 Aug 2011 at 20:58

MissileMoose said:
I call for a new forum section!

Now that's an idea and a half!

willhub · 9 Aug 2011 at 21:00

Jambo said:
So we're gonna have a thread for each city?

Why not?

Is multiple threads one for each city that goes up going to overload OcUK servers and result in OcUK being another casualty of the UK riots?

I don't think so.

Anyway on topic, how is it in Manchester, exactly how bad is the riots, is it just a couple of shops burnt down and a few smashed Windows at the Arndale center?

Aedus · 9 Aug 2011 at 21:01

Lolnortherners, trying to take the thunder from the south again.

Get your own news story, monkeys!

MikeHunt79 · 9 Aug 2011 at 21:01

There were some scuffles in Bristol last night also, but nothing on the same scale as London, hopefully tonight will turn out to be quieter but I'm not holding my breath...

Manchester is pretty huge however, so I'm not really surprised to hear that it could be kicking off there.

VaderDSL · 9 Aug 2011 at 21:05

willhub said:
Anyway on topic, how is it in Manchester, exactly how bad is the riots, is it just a couple of shops burnt down and a few smashed Windows at the Arndale center?

I think that's is a good summary, the Arndale manager is just on the phone with the BBC, he says a couple of shops have been broken into or damaged, Miss Selfridge/Foot locker or whatever that shoe shop is called and JD sports.

Don't think they're running rampant through the centre, but they've tried to break in.