Ritzy's "crack" door.

[ed99]

hi.

i have been told that after even further investigation the grilles do not need replacing wholesale - advice was given that if the locks / locking system was changed with no use of chains or padlocks etc then the existing grilles could stay. that has now happened and i believe that they have already started being used again.

please let me know if there are any issues that come up and i'll pass them on. hope that's sorted then...

 

[Leighsw2]

hail the Ritzy grilles!

returning home early on Sunday morning (by cab as I refuse to walk into Rushcroft Rd at that time anymore) what did I see but GRILLES ACROSS THE RITZY ALCOVES!!!

I wonder if the Ritzy, having perused these forums and ahead of the Rushcroft/Police meeting on Wed night (7.00pm in the Community Police Office on Coldharbour Lane) have finally swung into action?

So now there are two subsidiary issues - what about early evening when the alcoves are still open? and what about the buggers huddled smoking in our doorways? (to me, even more alarming than the Ritzy alcoves!)

power to the people!

 

[Bob]

Hooray!

Well done to the various people here who've either been agitating for this or helping sort it out. Not quite at nirvana yet but a step towards sorting things out.

All together now 'We can work it out, We can work it out.'

 

[RushcroftRoader]

Ah, the warm glow of community power in action....

 

[ed99]

credit where it is due...
yes, these boards kicked certain cogs into motion

 

[Streathamite]

Posh middle-class white people DO NOT generally buy their drugs off dodgy black geezers in the streets of Brixton. They get em off someone they know and trust, and can deal with with no risk, and no element of seediness at all. And I know.

Giles..

absolutely agreed. first rule of purchase; know yer dealer.

 

[potential]

when the ritzy was re-opened 1990 ?? i think.
they were told about the doorways, arches on
coldharbour lane being lairs for muggers drug
dealers etc...
sorry but badly designed buildings creates
these havens the rec centre has got to be
the worst designed building in london
dark alleyways piss filled tin foil dark corners
and c**t mugger infested stairwells...

 

[Bob]

Welcome to the Brixton boards potential.

 

[IntoStella]

Attention all shipping

Reminder

There is a meeting at the Beat - the mini copshop in Coldharbour Lane (formerly Pedro Keys) -- TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, AT 7pm.

It is supposed to be for Rushcroft Residents only but there seems to be a certain amount of, ahem, people management going on with the police and the council. They want to be able to handle residents one street at a time.
If you live in the area and you are concerned about crime, please do come to the meeting.

The last one was supposed to be for Saltoun Road only but people came from RR, CHL and Electric Lane as well. You could tell it got the police and the council rep on the back foot but they couldn't do much about it.

I am unhappy with the way the police publicised this meeting -- or rather, didn't. They shoved a few leaflets under the main street doors, along with all the pizza crap. You'd almost think they didn't want people to come along.

A cynic might think there has been a certain amount of bullshitting going on lately. The wider the group of people that turn up, the less room there is to fob people off.

Hope to see you there.

 

[netbob]

Reminder
It is supposed to be for Rushcroft Residents only but there seems to be a certain amount of, ahem, people management going on with the police and the council. They want to be able to handle residents one street at a time.
If you live in the area and you are concerned about crime, please do come to the meeting.

I think it's also for crime management. They can call in everyone from Road A and tell them they are going to do a crackdown ('scuse the pun) which forces it onto Road B, They then have meeting with Road B and promise a crackdown and on and on.

There's a few people from Electric Ave definitly comming. Ive mailed the mybrixton list too, so hopefully we should get a good representation.

 

[jayeola]

Perhaps a more off-beat but non-violent way to annoy the fuck out of the drug dealers would be to have those gospel, christain folk singing songs about god's luuurve all day. That would annoy the hell out of me. As soon as the druggies move to one spot, the "gospel" geezers would follow them, singing every song on the hymn sheet.

 

[IntoStella]

Perhaps a more off-beat but non-violent way to annoy the fuck out of the drug dealers would be to have those gospel, christain folk singing songs about god's luuurve all day. That would annoy the hell out of me. As soon as the druggies move to one spot, the "gospel" geezers would follow them, singing every song on the hymn sheet.

Legend has it that this happened a few years ago in CHL.

A group of god-botherers came down to sing and pray at the drug dealers (then in abundance) in a vain attempt to try to get them to change their evil ways. A stand-off ensued. The police were called.

The police apprehended the god botherers.




AFAIK that is a true story.

 

[netbob]

The police apprehended the god botherers.

Seems fair to me

 

[RushcroftRoader]

Legend has it that this happened a few years ago in CHL.

A group of god-botherers came down to sing and pray at the drug dealers (then in abundance) in a vain attempt to try to get them to change their evil ways. A stand-off ensued. The police were called.

The police apprehended the god botherers.




AFAIK that is a true story.

That is the funniest thing I have heard in ages. And somehow I am not surprised.

 

[jayeola]

Well at least it may get the guys to move along, even to another street corner. I've been offered "brown" when I was shopping once on a Saturday afternoon, arms a-popping with plastic bags of shopping on the Electric Avenue. Took me some time to work out what the dealer meant. Here's me thinking "....brown? How did he know that I was off to the butchers? Or is he selling knocked-off loaves of bread... um, well I won't this time but if he is selling bread then it's nice to know..." That's how naive I am about these things.

 

[IntoStella]

Well at least it may get the guys to move along, even to another street corner. I've been offered "brown" when I was shopping once on a Saturday afternoon, arms a-popping with plastic bags of shopping on the Electric Avenue. Took me some time to work out what the dealer meant.

Ohhhh! I seeeeee!!! I thought they were selling BRAWN.

Puts hairs on yer chest.

 

[Bob]

Well at least it may get the guys to move along, even to another street corner. I've been offered "brown" when I was shopping once on a Saturday afternoon, arms a-popping with plastic bags of shopping on the Electric Avenue. Took me some time to work out what the dealer meant. Here's me thinking "....brown? How did he know that I was off to the butchers? Or is he selling knocked-off loaves of bread... um, well I won't this time but if he is selling bread then it's nice to know..." That's how naive I am about these things.

So what do you do when your butcher offers you horse?

 

[colacubes]

So what do you do when your butcher offers you horse?

Phone Watchdog so Nicky Campbell can get all outraged and send some undercover researchers to do an investigation

 

[Leighsw2]

Perhaps a more off-beat but non-violent way to annoy the fuck out of the drug dealers would be to have those gospel, christain folk singing songs about god's luuurve all day. That would annoy the hell out of me. As soon as the druggies move to one spot, the "gospel" geezers would follow them, singing every song on the hymn sheet.

Actually, this makes me think of something I've been trying recently - I got given one of those personal alarms (they make a fuck of a lot of noise when let off!) and one evening I saw a group of crack heads just up from my block smoking in a doorway, so I went up to one of the communal windows in the block, stood just to one side so they couldn't see me and opened the window a little bit. I let off the alarm and kept it going for a few minutes. They were last seen legging it off up the street!

Now I know that crack heads aren't necessarily easy to move, but I assume they enjoy a "quiet smoke" like anyone else(!) It would be nice to think they'd enjoy no such luxury in our street as we all set off our alarms!