Posted on 08/09/2011 11:00:03 AM PDT by markomalley
Shops and homes in an upmarket area of south London were protected from rioters by a human barricade as residents and workers across the capital were forced to defend themselves.
Locals in Clapham Junction, Dalston and Whitechapel took to the streets and faced down the mob on Monday night after realising that police were too over-stretched to help.
In south London, officers were nowhere to be seen as shopfronts were smashed in St John’s Road, Clapham Junction.
But the gangs of youths were prevented from carrying on their rampage south into Northcote Road, site of restaurants - specialist food stores and boutiques - by locals who guarded the top of the street from a branch of Nando’s to the Northcote pub.
A core of 20 people gathered at the junction, with up to 50 at some points, from just after 9pm until close to 11pm.
John Comyn, who has lived in the area all his life, said: “Most people I spoke to were local and couldn't believe what was happening. No one wanted to venture down St John's Road but we weren't going to let them ruin our street.
“From then on, when anyone came towards us we told them to go back, there wasn't anything for them down here. It was fairly spontaneous but the group formed a line across the end of the road.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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.
” . . . 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.
ummmm. “Youths?” Is this weasel words I’m hearing?
“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.
The whole article is worth reading. Some of the foreign communities in London, such as the Turks, have not forgotten how to defend themselves.
Rioters has some really bad timing when about 1,500 Muslims chased them out.
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.
Coffee table shield and bat...HER IT IS!
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/safe-bedside-table-sleep-safe-with-a-big-stick-by-your-side
Headline at drudge says American baseball balls are selling fast in the UK
The magic word for today is Militia.
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.
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.
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...
Hey! I loaded that. And all I got was another day older and deeper in debt.
I never laughed so hard at a kids movie! Frying pans rock.
Kitchen knife + broom handle + duct tape = spear
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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