A lot of that sort of thing was getting very common last summer in the urban plantations.
I would expect this summer to make last summer look good.
And your second sentence is interesting as well. Here is Fred from last August:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/LondonRiots.shtml
This whole thing is easy to predict if one is paying attention.
I’m a little curious why he referenced the London riots.
Was he not aware of the same kind of thing happening here?