Posted on 08/09/2011 10:18:24 AM PDT by drewh
Terrified diners at one of Notting Hill's most upmarket eateries were among those caught up in the riots terror after thugs burst into a restaurant and ripped wedding rings from the fingers of female customers.
The Ledbury in Notting Hill, a favourite dining spot of Kate Moss and Lily Allen, came under attack when 100 masked youths ransacked the restaurant before ripping jewellery and wallets from diners.
The terrifying ordeal was revealed as it emerged that Jamie Oliver's flagship Italian restaurant in Birmingham had also come under attack during disturbances in the Midlands.
News of the attack on the Ledbury first came to light at 11pm last night when Twitter user @harrywilkinson told how his parents' anniversary dinner had been interrupted by looters.
Yobs used furniture to smash their way into the Michelin-starred eaterie before causing 'chaos' as staff tried to usher customers upstairs to safety.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Only in cities and states that fear their own people enough to disarm them. I'd like to see the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas try to move on University Park, or Arlington. The bodies would be stacked six deep.
Why is it always "holder's people?"
Darn, wifey and I only have 12 rounds EACH.
Should we carry more?
Kel-tec 380 is so light you don’t even know it’s in your pocket. Made in FL and guaranteed for life. Nice little gun. Loaded with hollow points.
Bring it on scumbags!
Signed
PISSED-OFF WHITEY
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Sgt.: Right. Bananas. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. Now you, come at me with this banana. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana. First of all you force him to drop the banana; then, second, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless.
Palin: Suppose he's got a bunch.
Sgt.: Shut up.
Idle: Suppose he's got a pointed stick.
Sgt.: Shut up. Right now you, Mr Apricot.
Chapman: 'Arrison.
Sgt.: Sorry, Mr. 'Arrison. Come at me with that banana. Hold it like that, that's it. Now attack me with it. Come on! Come on! Come at me! Come at me then! (Shoots him.)
Chapman: Aaagh! (dies.)
Sgt.: Now, I eat the banana. (Does so.)
Palin: You shot him!
Jones: He's dead!
Idle: He's completely dead!
Sgt.: I have now eaten the banana. The deceased, Mr Apricot, is now 'elpless.
Palin: You shot him. You shot him dead.
Sgt.: Well, he was attacking me with a banana.
Jones: But you told him to.
Sgt.: Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourselves against fresh fruit.
This is the type of people liberalism creates: Thugs and whimps. I prefer not to be a liberal, a thug or a whimp.
I hope that is sarcasm and not the law.
As the article says, "The attack eventually finished when cooks stormed from the kitchen with knives and rolling pins."
My question is, what about the "men" in the restaurant?
Please tell me that’s satire, because it is complete rubbish.
Where this American notion that people in the UK dont have the right of self defence is beyond me.
In the US, president Dick Obama would call this whole mess a “redistribution of wealth.”
To be fair to Oliver, the obesity and diet in that town was appalling.
I remember reading a news article just a few months back, where a burglar had broken into a man’s home in the UK. The homeowner had no gun but had some kind of bat or cudgel that he used on the burglar, severely injuring him. The homeowner was arrested and charged with assault and battery because the police said he had a duty to run away and report it to the police instead of attacking the burglar, which is the police’s job, not the homeowner’s..............
This isn’t the article but it’s similar and contains references to it:
The notion comes from your press........................
Two days later, Mother and I were sitting in the lounge of the hotel in a long narrow room with writing tables and leather couches. Long elegant windows were to my left. The hotel staff began moving furniture out without saying a word as I carefully penned my undying love to my teenage boyfriend (he was a cutie). Mother sat reading a novel as I wrote. The staff finally got to her couch and my writing table and we looked up to ask if we should move. They said how sorry they were but they had to make room for President De Gaul’s reception line. We therefore moved on.
Dad returned from his business meeting that evening and said, “We won't be able to return home through Detroit, the border is closed,” and “I have the two of you booked for a trip to see an Indian Reservation some 150 miles out of Ottawa.” Mother and I looked a little surprised, and Mother asked, “Whatever did you think we would find of interest there, dear?” Dad replied, “Being out of the city because they are threatening to assassinate De Gaul if he insists on coming to Ottawa with his “Vive Quebec Libre” speech. She turned to me and said, “I think you'll find the crafts interesting and we'll find the fresh air invigorating.”
We finished our trip to Ottawa and headed east to cross at Niagara Falls (which was really cool, but unplanned). I had to wait to mail my next testimony of undying love to the love of my life until we reached Watertown, because the damned French were bombing mail boxes.
Ah, yes, the summer of ‘67. I never did get to see the Worlds Fair Exhibition in Montreal, but I lived history and a couple of weeks as an ex-pat in Canada.
This is the first time I've ever written “What I Did Over My Summer Vacation”. In 1967, nobody cared. ;-)
I guess a wise man would bundle the burglars body in a sack and discretely dump it in the river. With no evidence as to how it got there.
All were released.
I have explained in other threads that in the event of a death, all involved will be ‘arrested’ until facts are cleared up. I have explained in other threads that only a tiny minority of householders have been jailed, as they were deemed to have gone way beyond self defence.
We have the right of self defence. I know, as I had to invoke it against a burglar in 2008.
I'm thinking "A Clockwork Orange."
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