Brixton Rd cordoned off
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gaijingirl
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Friend who was planning to come says it's mayhem... tube station closed, buses diverted etc etc....
This is becoming very tiresome!
This is becoming very tiresome!
aurora green
Tectonic
Bloody hell, this is ridiculous. There was a bomb scare only this morning. All the market along Popes road was evacuated at about 11ish.
aurora green
Tectonic
Pie 1 said:Wondered what that bang was - actually I was concentrating on something else and assumed it to be kids with fireworks
You heard a big bang?
You know, the police never fail to disappoint me. Central Brixton was closed off when I was getting home at around 7 last night. Traffic crawled to a halt - cars diverted down the side roads, with all the buses forced to stop and park by the town hall.
Get off the bus, peer around all the parked traffic carefully and start to cross the road towards home. Just about cleared the first batch of red bus-boxes and see a policeman yabbering furiously at a couple of us crossing. 'I'm trying to get to Rattray Road' I started to say hopefully.
...red faced goon of a policeman starts going more crimson, gesticulating furiously 'Get back, it's obvious, get back or I arrest you.'
Actually, it wasn't obvious at all. One more bus pulled in and parked up slowly, showing that there was some police 'do no cross' tape that they were occasionally closing up after they directed some stranded traffic through. All he had to do was direct me down the side road by Connections, not act like some jumped-up wankcheese with a handcuffs fixation. I just bit my tongue - hell, I'm from near Brazil and they'd probably me go for the back of me head - and walked down the road fuming.
Way to go to reassure the public and win hearts and minds eh. Where do they find tossers like this to train so badly?
Get off the bus, peer around all the parked traffic carefully and start to cross the road towards home. Just about cleared the first batch of red bus-boxes and see a policeman yabbering furiously at a couple of us crossing. 'I'm trying to get to Rattray Road' I started to say hopefully.
...red faced goon of a policeman starts going more crimson, gesticulating furiously 'Get back, it's obvious, get back or I arrest you.'
Actually, it wasn't obvious at all. One more bus pulled in and parked up slowly, showing that there was some police 'do no cross' tape that they were occasionally closing up after they directed some stranded traffic through. All he had to do was direct me down the side road by Connections, not act like some jumped-up wankcheese with a handcuffs fixation. I just bit my tongue - hell, I'm from near Brazil and they'd probably me go for the back of me head - and walked down the road fuming.
Way to go to reassure the public and win hearts and minds eh. Where do they find tossers like this to train so badly?
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
tarannau said:You know, the police never fail to disappoint me.
When there was that gas canister scare on Brixton Water Lane a few months ago, they were letting residents through to their homes on the understanding that we go indoors, close the doors and windows etc. I got through NO problem. My lodgers were told they couldn't come home and my OH was told that there was a 50/50 chance of it exploding as he walked up the road and it was up to him whether he wanted to take the chance!!
I honestly believe (maybe naively) that there are people who join the police force because they do want to serve their community.. but there are some right idiots in the police force and I've had a few brushes with them in the past (for example, once I was pushed off my bike by a copper on a "reclaim the streets" demo for absolutely no reason) that have really upset me and sadly, I can totally understand why many distrust the whole institution....
gaijingirl said:I honestly believe (maybe naively) that there are people who join the police force because they do want to serve their community.. but there are some right idiots in the police force ....
I keep hoping for the best, trying to be more upbeat about the police. And then I experience them again first hand (last week being distinctly rude to the Windrush square crew for example) and the disillusionment sets in again.
Gawd knows, I'm more tolerant than most around Brixton. But it's difficult to change your opinions of them when nearly personal experience with the police nearly always turns out to be a negative one...
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Yes Tarranau!tarannau said:
Depressingly, as so many of us predicted as early as the morning of 7 july, many of the police have turned into even bigger w*nkers than usual. I know they're just doing their job - but heightened security doesn't mean you can forget how to be humane and treat people with respect.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Brixton Hatter said:
From the knackered look of a lot of them later yesterday, I suspect that caffeine-fuelled double shifts aren't doing much to help their reactions.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
tarannau said:You know, the police never fail to disappoint me. Central Brixton was closed off when I was getting home at around 7 last night. Traffic crawled to a halt - cars diverted down the side roads, with all the buses forced to stop and park by the town hall.
Get off the bus, peer around all the parked traffic carefully and start to cross the road towards home. Just about cleared the first batch of red bus-boxes and see a policeman yabbering furiously at a couple of us crossing. 'I'm trying to get to Rattray Road' I started to say hopefully.
...red faced goon of a policeman starts going more crimson, gesticulating furiously 'Get back, it's obvious, get back or I arrest you.'
Actually, it wasn't obvious at all. One more bus pulled in and parked up slowly, showing that there was some police 'do no cross' tape that they were occasionally closing up after they directed some stranded traffic through. All he had to do was direct me down the side road by Connections, not act like some jumped-up wankcheese with a handcuffs fixation. I just bit my tongue - hell, I'm from near Brazil and they'd probably me go for the back of me head - and walked down the road fuming.
Way to go to reassure the public and win hearts and minds eh. Where do they find tossers like this to train so badly?
Yeah, they were being fucking crap yesterday morning when they cordoned off Atlantic Rd. They didn't bother to make sure everyone was evacuated from our office building, didn't bother to even inform us that anything was going on. First I knew was when I met someone from another office in the building on the stairs who told me that she thought they were being evacuated. No one bothered to come to our office or buzz our intercom to let us know anything was up. I went down to the front door walked out straight into the middle of the cordoned off area and had to shout to a policeman to be noticed at all...great security procedure guys! I was then told to "come out or stay in!" ?! What the fuck does that mean?
Blagsta said:
Cut 'n' pasted from another thread (cos I'm not sure how to do links, fucking thick Old Bill eh?):
detective-boy said:
And apart from tired, they're probably (a) worried they'll get blown up too (they go to them all, not just your one!) and (b) pissed off with tossers who totally ignore all directions (as in "You can't go there because that may be a car bomb" "I'll go where I fucking like mate ..." as opposed to the situation you describe). No excuse for not treating everyone politely but it'll be part of the reason why.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I reckon that constant state of 'preparedness' plus all leave cancelled can't help the old nerves either.
