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Diners at two Michelin-starred restaurant have wedding rings ripped off fingers by rioters
Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 4:47 PM on 9th August 2011

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 ...


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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Imagine if the American was a ST6, feeling sad and angry about the loss of his comrades. It would make a fascinating Daily Mail headline.

ST6 wouldn't need anything more than the dinner cutlery to clean the floor with that bunch of thugs. They ran from relatively untrained cooks with kitchen knives. Running into a professional would have taken the fun out of it rather quickly.
41 posted on 08/09/2011 11:02:50 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: drewh
Hey, Thugs, c’mon over to my house...I have a surprise for you. If enough of you come you will eventually take me out but a whole bunch of you are going with me. Wanna play?
42 posted on 08/09/2011 11:03:50 AM PDT by JPG (Yes She Can!)
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To: JerseyHighlander
The communists very much welcome this with glee. It is these tools who will cause the crisis' that they will use to seize power. Just as they did in revolutionary Russia.

They are the muscle the communists are using to bring down civil society. Once they seize power, these people will be disposed of.

43 posted on 08/09/2011 11:05:25 AM PDT by riri
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To: RexBeach

I call this the take your glock to dinner alert.


44 posted on 08/09/2011 11:06:01 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: drewh
Having trouble feeling outrage. My guess is that the vast majority of the people in the restaurant voted for the politicians who thought they could placate their pipples by offering them free edumacation, free health care, free retirement, free this, free that, free the other thing.

The saying goes, a Conservative is a Liberal who's been mugged. Let's see if this proves true.

They do have elections in The Land Of Eng, don't they?

45 posted on 08/09/2011 11:07:00 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: drewh

Was Los Angeles so different? Not only could it happen today, but it’s even MORE likely, now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvaNJ0mF_JM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TELeNBory8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3mjTmUJhlE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8WY0dAhpQw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8WY0dAhpQw&feature=related


46 posted on 08/09/2011 11:07:25 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: drewh

Lucky for them that armed police and private citizens were able to thwart the criminals. Oh what?? The police don’t carry firearms? And neither do the law abiding citizens?

Never mind.


47 posted on 08/09/2011 11:08:36 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: drewh

It is important to occasionally take your wife out to dinner.......... it is more important to take a gun.


48 posted on 08/09/2011 11:11:40 AM PDT by Gator113 (Palin 2012, period.....)
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To: drewh
If only one of the patrons had pulled their licensed concealed handgun.

...Oh wait. Never mind.

49 posted on 08/09/2011 11:13:44 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: drewh
It is poetic justice that food Nazi and Oprah pimp Jamie Oliver had his over priced restaurant sacked. Maybe he can return to Huntingdon WVA and explain how much more sophisticated and intelligent people are in Europe and how they have to teach the ignorant provincials how to live and eat.
50 posted on 08/09/2011 11:16:45 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: Lazlo in PA

Not more then 10 minutes ago I had a yob sneaking around in my green house looking to steal stuff while another acted as lookout. I chased the look out off and put a 357 in the face of the other. Hopefully they won’t be back.


51 posted on 08/09/2011 11:18:29 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: riri; rightwingextremist1776

“The communists very much welcome this with glee.”

Yeah, but so are the socialists, the BNP, the Islamicists, the Student Unionists and Labor Unionists, the Scottish Nationalists, and a host of other -ists.

But the Communists in and around London had no part in the fomentation of these riots, have little presence in London, and can barely muster 2,000 people at rallies on May Day.

Most of the underclass in London have just as much distrust of pamphleteering Communists as they would pamphleteering Labour politicians and pamphleteering Evangelical Christians.

There is not even a theoretical possibility that the small cadre of actual Communist organizers in and around London can capitalize on this in any way, or if you see some way, why don’t you spell it out.

The city and society is not going to burn, the reactionary forces are going to beef up 19th and 20th century anti-rioting laws, and the whole situation is going to be exploited by the law enforcement/paramilitary industrial complex in the UK.

These riots happen AL THE TIME in France, yet don’t even make the Anglophone news anymore , and just like in the UK , the small cadre of real deal Commies in France are not going to capitalize on it in any way.


52 posted on 08/09/2011 11:19:55 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: Cyman
Actually, I heard from another thread that some of the owners of stores in the area where rioting was going on did not sit back and watch.They armed themselves with bats,(cricket bats I guess)and stood in front of their stores.

One twitter reported that a mob of men with bats were chasing a group of black rioters.

53 posted on 08/09/2011 11:24:34 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the Wes)
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To: Texas Eagle

“They do have elections in The Land Of Eng, don’t they?”

Yes they do.

Have you ever heard of the “B.N.P”?

If not, you will be hearing a LOT more of them, and soon.

Just sayin’...


54 posted on 08/09/2011 11:26:12 AM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: jpsb

You be careful my FRiend, they are cowards and would think nothing of coming back with others.


55 posted on 08/09/2011 11:26:55 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the Wes)
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To: JerseyHighlander
Really? Well OK then...we should all just ignore this then....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

London rioters: ‘Showing the rich we do what we want’

No class warfare against the bourgeois I guess.....

56 posted on 08/09/2011 11:26:59 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: JerseyHighlander
Well, they are too savvy to call themselves communists anymore.

If they seek to take away my property and use force to do so -- they are communists. I don't care who or what group they affiliate themselves with.

57 posted on 08/09/2011 11:32:23 AM PDT by riri
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To: liberalh8ter
The guy probably was the local crack dealer.
58 posted on 08/09/2011 11:32:31 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Astronaut

It’s already started with the flash robs and mob fights the yoots of diversity have been involved with since last year.


59 posted on 08/09/2011 11:35:28 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: TSgt

Reminds me of the movie “Harry Brown” , starring Michael Caine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7rmjUGCfw


60 posted on 08/09/2011 11:35:31 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (My mind is like a steel trap: rusty and illegal in 37 states.)
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