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London riots: residents fight back
The Telegraph ^
| 09 Aug 2011
| Martin Beckford, James Hall, Christopher Williams, David Millward
Posted on 08/09/2011 11:00:03 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Have people in England really forgotten how to make simple arms for home protection? What happened to the spear or the sheleligh, staff or the baseball bat! Even an axe will work!
I used to have a web page of a British company that made coffee tables of a simple design. The top was a shield, the post was a baseball bat. someone breaks in and you grab the top and strap it on your arm, grab the bat and start swinging.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:38:52 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
” . . . coffee tables of a simple design. The top was a shield, the post was a baseball bat. someone breaks in and you grab the top and strap it on your arm, grab the bat and start swinging.”
Ingenious. Probably for city flats. But also a great pity. Guns are cheaper and don’t distort the decor.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:50:03 AM PDT
by
Mach9
To: markomalley
ummmm. “Youths?” Is this weasel words I’m hearing?
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:50:34 AM PDT
by
HeartlandOfAmerica
(Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
To: GeronL
“They have been gutting their military for a while, do they have an army left?”
If they don’t, then I suppose they get to be looted through the tax code and again by the hooligans as the rule of law falls apart. And we get another example of where the road of the entitlement society and disarming of civilians in the name of public safety leads.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:50:42 AM PDT
by
dajeeps
To: markomalley
The whole article is worth reading. Some of the foreign communities in London, such as the Turks, have not forgotten how to defend themselves.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:50:49 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: markomalley
Rioters has some really bad timing when about 1,500 Muslims chased them out.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:50:58 AM PDT
by
DejaJude
To: markomalley
Home weapons used in a Korean POW camp. Easy to make and use against people breaaking into your home. Spears, barb wire flails and knives.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:51:18 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
To: markomalley
My father in law lived near Pensacola and they had a hurricane go through and take out the electric lines. He had emphysema and was on oxygen, so I went to his place with a generator and set it up to run his AC and oxygen equipment. I was sleeping on his front porch when I heard the generator quit. I looked over the rail and found two thieves trying to unchain the generator from the power pole.
I racked the slide on my Mossberg 12 gauge and both of those guys took off at a full run. There were no street lights and it was pitch black and they ran right into the chain link fence at full speed. I laughed so hard I had tears running down my face.
I guess word got out, because no one else tried to steal the generator.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:51:51 AM PDT
by
mbynack
(Retired USAF SMSgt)
To: Mach9
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:57:42 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Headline at drudge says American baseball balls are selling fast in the UK
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:58:33 AM PDT
by
algernonpj
(He who pays the piper . . .)
To: Little Ray
"Its amazing what you can do to an opponent with a cast-iron skillet!"
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:59:20 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Secede? Y'all should hope that we don't invade!)
To: dajeeps
I am not a fan of standing armies in times of peace, but theres a time and a place for everything and it looks like its time for martial law to get things back under control. The magic word for today is Militia.
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posted on
08/09/2011 11:59:48 AM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: markomalley
Is it LEGAL in England to defend yourself?? What if you gave a rioter a bump or a bruise? You’d be in BIG trouble then!
Good to see people realizing that they can actually take care of themselves while the gummint stands by picking its nose. Remember, Brits, there are MORE of YOU than of THEM.
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:00:11 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: TexasRepublic
I got a kick from this:
Jerry Keshin, who runs Jerry's Food and Wine on Stoke Newington Road, said: I shut early because I heard they were coming. I went down to Hoxton to get my boys and we drove back up and saw a group of about 10 rioters who were on their way into our area. We chased them into one of the estates and had it out.
Would love to know more about that meeting.
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:00:35 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
To: BlueLancer
Always nice to have a 16 Ton weight handy
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:00:49 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BlueLancer
Wouldn’t go quite that far. Bringing a frying pan to a gunfight is embarrassing.
But it works if your opponents are no better armed than you are...
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:03:39 PM PDT
by
Little Ray
(Best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
To: dfwgator
Hey! I loaded that. And all I got was another day older and deeper in debt.
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:03:49 PM PDT
by
tnlibertarian
(Don't mend SS, end it.)
To: BlueLancer
I never laughed so hard at a kids movie! Frying pans rock.
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:04:17 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
To: algernonpj
Kitchen knife + broom handle + duct tape = spear
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:05:26 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
To: DejaJude
They need to create a honeypot. Open up a liquor store facade. When the looters come, be waiting on them with metal bars, knives, arrows, the lot.
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posted on
08/09/2011 12:05:35 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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