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Terrified Diners Recount How Armed Gang Stormed London Restaurant
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Posted on 08/09/2011 8:39:02 PM PDT by Leaning Right

Terrified diners in London told Tuesday how rioters brandishing baseball bats smashed their way into a top restaurant and forced them to hand over wedding rings, cell phones and wallets.

Staff at two-Michelin-starred The Ledbury, in the affluent west London suburb of Notting Hill, were forced to confront the gang of intruders with rolling pins and kitchen utensils Monday evening in a desperate bid to protect customers.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/09/terrified-diners-recount-how-armed-gang-stormed-london-restaurant/#ixzz1UanMjd5W

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: london; restaurant; riot
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Interesting how the restaurant staff fought back with kitchen utensils.
1 posted on 08/09/2011 8:39:08 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Thank God for the Second Amendment!


2 posted on 08/09/2011 8:40:28 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Sweden - one of the next Muslim countries)
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To: Leaning Right

I’m sure the constables will be arresting the kitchen staff in short order.


3 posted on 08/09/2011 8:41:06 PM PDT by mike-zed
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To: Leaning Right
A Clockwork Orange x 1,000.
4 posted on 08/09/2011 8:42:01 PM PDT by fwdude
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Interesting how the restaurant staff fought back with kitchen utensils.

Whereas, if they would have had a gun there wouldn't have been much of a fight.

But hey, they got the government they deserve, and all of the rules that go with it.

Coming soon to the U.S. if we don't wake the hell up.

5 posted on 08/09/2011 8:42:19 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Leaning Right

“He told me to take off my rings and grabbed my hand, trying to yank them off. His friend tried to help too, but the rings wouldn’t come off and I just yelled at him that I’d take them off myself. In hindsight, now that I know that gun control is so fierce in England and he only had bat, I should have held on to my rings better and maybe slugged him in the face.”


6 posted on 08/09/2011 8:43:02 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Freeper football "Free Men or Lickspittle". Ask me how and why!)
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To: Leaning Right

Apparently no one is able to read the signs...even though we are commanded to read the signs. Lawlessness is abounding for a reason.


7 posted on 08/09/2011 8:43:38 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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Forbid they pulled a Knife on the attackers!


8 posted on 08/09/2011 8:44:38 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: fwdude
Where's Jules when you need him

"WHAT'S FONZIE LIKE?"

9 posted on 08/09/2011 8:46:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I’m sure the constables will be arresting the kitchen staff in short order.

I had the same thought. After all, a civilized society can't have folks waving knives around.

Perhaps Prince Charles can spearhead an effort to register all knives in Britain.

10 posted on 08/09/2011 8:46:15 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: fwdude

Just my thoughts, my brothah.


11 posted on 08/09/2011 8:46:55 PM PDT by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: Leaning Right

No forks? Give me a fork and I’ll take your baseball bat with it.


12 posted on 08/09/2011 8:49:11 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Leaning Right

Kitchen utensils, that would include butcher knives and meat cleavers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZDYTjai5E


13 posted on 08/09/2011 8:50:25 PM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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Whereas, if they would have had a gun there wouldn't have been much of a fight.

If the Bobbies had guns, this wouldn't have lasted but a couple hours and been done by now. Shoot the first few who didn't stand down days ago and the rest would have turned tail and gone home.

14 posted on 08/09/2011 8:51:04 PM PDT by bgill
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In Green Lanes everyone's waiting outside with sticks and knifes, really - I can say this - with choppers and stuff.
15 posted on 08/09/2011 8:51:45 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Leaning Right

They should have listened to Enoch Powell.


16 posted on 08/09/2011 8:53:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Leaning Right

Hard to imagine the scene but we better prepare for it mentally....


17 posted on 08/09/2011 8:55:00 PM PDT by One Name
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Couldn’t they just talk and negotiate with these poor misguided yutes?


18 posted on 08/09/2011 8:55:21 PM PDT by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: dfwgator

“COOL????”


19 posted on 08/09/2011 8:58:39 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Leaning Right

people who are stupid as dirt, not surprisingly end up
in a bad situation.

during riots, there are some places to avoid.


20 posted on 08/09/2011 9:00:47 PM PDT by 50gunsalute
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