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The low point

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This is one of the lowest, most cowardly acts I have seen. For those who can't see video, it shows a boy, sitting in the pavement bleeding, apparently caught up in the riots. People help him up, put their arms around him as though they are comforting him. And then, as he stands there dazed, they open his rucksack and take what they want.

I don't know if it's possible to catch the low-lives that did this, and maybe it's no more important than everything else that's going on, but let's spread this and see if they can be identified.

That these people live in my city, and are happy to behave like this makes me miserable. Never have I been so disgusted with my fellow city-dwellers.

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That scumbag...

...who takes whatever it is, chucks away the bag and then swaggers off like he's a really big deal, makes me want to vomit. Someone should get medieval on his ass, by which I mean put him in the stocks (naked would be good) for days and days, during which time he is pelted with eggs and cabbages and jeered at constantly, and periodically pressure-hosed, and only then hauled off to magistrates court or wherever. Does that make me a bad person?

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mikethep | 9 August 2011 - 5:06pm

er,

no.

Whatever anyone else says, that bloke pretty much defines what I think of as 'scum'.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 9 August 2011 - 5:57pm

What happened before?

Did they attack him pre this video? He's on his own maybe this is the second part of an attack. I really hope they get these and all the others too.

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Lunaman | 9 August 2011 - 6:54pm

I'm reminded of the old Grauniad advert.

A video clip needs to be viewed in full context. Or viewed, in my case. I can't see the clip. Are we seeing the full story? Do we know what has happened before and after?

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Lenny Law | 9 August 2011 - 10:51pm

The comment on this site about ver riots

is significant, I feel. I think it's fair to say that this blog is largely populated by thoroughly decent types who are however, perhaps, maybe, y'know, a touch too kneejerk liberal and bien pensant on occasion. To witness the overwhelmingly condemnatory nature of the posts about this topic has been a breath of fresh air for me. Nothing more to add, really.

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DougieJ | 10 August 2011 - 12:09am

Also sad

was the interview with the shop owner who'd had bridal gowns stolen. She didn't know what she was going to say to the prospective brides who they were being altered for.

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Lando Cakes | 10 August 2011 - 12:01am

Adding Insult to Injury

Saw this last night after following a link from an incandescent-with-anger @MrsLRCooper (the married Lily Allen and for me, the absolute nadir of it comes with the oh-so-casual, roll the shoulders way the guy discards the bits he doesn't want. Yes I know littering is hardly the problem or indeed the point, but the dismissiveness of it, the swaggering fuck-headedness of it all...

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Dadwardo | 10 August 2011 - 5:08am
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