Japanese Woman Hurt in London Riots

[Mulboyne]

The Japanese Embassy in London has reported that a Japanese woman in her 30s was assaulted on Monday night in the Silvertown area of East London. A group of youths apparently surrounded the woman and then struck her while also robbing her. She sustained a head injury. Silvertown hasn't been reported as a flash point elsewhere but it wouldn't be surprising if gangs had been on the streets in other parts of London that night, looking for opportunities.

Source (Japanese)

[Coligny]

The Japanese Embassy in London has reported that a Japanese woman in her 30s was assaulted on Monday night in the Silvertown area of East London. A group of youths apparently surrounded the woman and then struck her while also robbing her. She sustained a head injury. Silvertown hasn't been reported as a flash point elsewhere but it wouldn't be surprising if gangs had been on the streets in other parts of London that night, looking for opportunities.

Source (Japanese)

In other news... shit happens... movie at 11...

She's lucky it's just rioters... If it had been chavs, her remains would already have been sold to a meat packer and turned into pet food...

[Mulboyne]

There really weren't any riots in Silvertown. The closest would have been a small affair on the other side of the river in Woolwich or the larger trouble in Lewisham. North of the river, the biggest rucks were much further north in Bethnal Green and Hackney. It sounds like an opportunistic mugging. It probably wouldn't have happened if gangs hadn't been all over the streets that night. Depending on what time it happened, there's a fair chance the group was heading to other parts of town or on its way back.

[Yokohammer]

... It sounds like an opportunistic mugging. ...

"Opportunistic": now there's a word that I think describes 90% of what's going on.
I thought the U.K. was supposed to be a civilized place. Right now it is looking pretty low.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I thought the U.K. was supposed to be a civilized place.

That's sarcasm, right?

[Yokohammer]

That's sarcasm, right?

Not really. Never been there so I've never experienced the place firsthand, but I was under the impression that it was relatively civilized. Looks like I was somewhat misinformed.

[Coligny]

Not really. Never been there so I've never experienced the place firsthand, but I was under the impression that it was relatively civilized.

No... I'm really not joking aboot the chavs... think as bad as dingo in australia, except they have health insurance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Chav

[2triky]

No... I'm really not joking aboot the chavs... think as bad as dingo in australia, except they have health insurance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Chav

Chavs, schmavs...what's a couple of ASBO's between friends?

[Yokohammer]

No... I'm really not joking aboot the chavs... think as bad as dingo in australia, except they have health insurance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Chav

Hmm ... makes Melbourne look positively idyllic.
(And even Melbourne is a helluva lot more dangerous now than it was when I was growing up there).

[Samurai_Jerk]

Not really. Never been there so I've never experienced the place firsthand, but I was under the impression that it was relatively civilized. Looks like I was somewhat misinformed.

I've never been either but everything I've heard from English guys and seen on the news and in movies makes the place seem like a total dump full of angry minorities and even angrier white trash. When I think of England I think of football hooligans, chavs and Guy Ritchie films not Peter Rabbit and Mary Poppins.

[Yokohammer]

[quote="Samurai_Jerk"] ... not Peter Rabbit and Mary Poppins. ]
I'm devastated ...

[Coligny]

[quote="Samurai_Jerk"]When I think of England I think of football hooligans, chavs and Guy Ritchie films not Peter Rabbit and Mary Poppins. ]

Now it's more Thomas the Battletank engine...

[GomiGirl]

I love London but I have always felt the undercurrent of agression everywhere. When you are in a busy pub, you feel as if a pub fight is not too far away given the right/wrong conditions. The night buses are full of loud, drunk and mostly happy people, but there is always the sense that a mob could develop quickly.

People seem to arc up more so than in other places I have visited at the slightest of provocation. Got no evidence for any of this as it is just a personal opinion.

[pheyton]

I love London but I have always felt the undercurrent of agression everywhere. When you are in a busy pub, you feel as if a pub fight is not too far away given the right/wrong conditions. The night buses are full of loud, drunk and mostly happy people, but there is always the sense that a mob could develop quickly.

People seem to arc up more so than in other places I have visited at the slightest of provocation. Got no evidence for any of this as it is just a personal opinion.

It's the fuckin food man.

[matsuki]

It's the fuckin food man.

If you can call it that

[Mock Cockpit]

[quote="chokonen888"]If you can call it that ]
If you can't get a good feed in London then you probably battle to dress yourself every morning.

[matsuki]

If you can't get a good feed in London then you probably battle to dress yourself every morning.

I've actually never been there myself but everyone I know that has (multiple nationalities) complains about the "shit they call food there."

[Mulboyne]

I wrote elsewhere on FG last year "I don't recognize any description of Britain which would characterize the country as a woolly-liberal, tolerant society" and was accused of taking the piss.

There's always been an undercurrent of violence in Britain which flares up from time to time. I don't think anyone could have foreseen this particular manifestation but it didn't come out of the blue. The 2006 film "Kidulthood" described this environment pretty well and was made before the economy went down the drain. Funnily enough, it was shown on the BBC just over a month ago.

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[Catoneinutica]

I wrote elsewhere on FG last year "I don't recognize any description of Britain which would characterize the country as a woolly-liberal, tolerant society" and was accused of taking the piss.

There's always been an undercurrent of violence in Britain which flares up from time to time.

How has the response of the London authorities thus far to these "youths," as you call them, been anything other than the very model of wooly liberalism and an almost amae tolerance?

England has indeed always had no shortage of angry, sometimes violent, mobs. These mobs were in the past a source for good, and help explain why concepts like civil law and individual freedom developed long before they did on the Continent. Neverless, it's difficult to see much good coming from the current unpleasantness.

-catone
-though hidden under the anodyne "youth" terminology is what is apparently turning into a conflict between London's blacks and its islamomaniacs.
-go blacks!

[Christoff]

[quote="chokonen888"]If you can call it that ]


You got a problem with the spotted dick?

[legion]

[quote="Samurai_Jerk"]When I think of England I think of football hooligans, chavs and Guy Ritchie films not Peter Rabbit and Mary Poppins. ]

"Lie back and think of England" said Peter Rabbit popping Mary Poppins

[plaid_knight]

There is mass rioting in Spain and England. How long until it starts up in Japan and the United States?

[Coligny]

There is mass rioting in Spain and England. How long until it starts up in Japan

you made a funnay I think... (*)

and the United States?

The jersey shore is on air... nobody will move away from the telly farther than the fridge... The Brits stopped broadcasting Dr Who mid season... look what they got into... other countries now know what absolutely NOT to do...



(*) Maybe... maybe if the supermarkets run out of TP some milfs will go ballistic... but with washlets i can't even be sure of that...

[Buraku]

Elon Musk brands Starmer 'two-tier Keir' and asks 'is this Britain or Soviet Union?' over Facebook comment arrest video
https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-br ... o-13191898


not Tottenham London but all cities

the Hooligan Patriot Soccer type came out, rumors circulated it was muslim then a Welsh man until news finally released the name.

Maybe they can ban bricks, ban cutlery and stones and bottles next?


India issues advisory against traveling to England says you might get burned, raped or stoned to death by mobs

Now Australia has issued a travel warning for the UK as rioting continues
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/05/first-co ... rip_item_4

Southport stabbing suspect named as Axel Rudakubana after judge lifts ban
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... d-33253010

Nigel Farage labels the UK riots ‘despicable’
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul ... ad28aea27e

UK riots: Keir Starmer refuses to outright condemn Birmingham Palestine mob attacks
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/19328 ... -secretary

[Taka-Okami]

Two-tier Kier Starmfuhrer

[Coligny]

India issues advisory against traveling to England says you might get burned, raped or stoned to death by mobs

Sooo… they’ll just feel llike home…