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  • pitchshifter
    pitchshifter Posts: 1,476
    Anyone heading SW fancy doing a convoy? :shock:
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,382
    Left at Battersea Bridge, up to Clapham Common, then either down to Balham, then left at Bedford Hill, or straight down Cavendish Road then across Tooting Bec Common. Down to Figge's Marsh, then you could cut across to Morden and then zigzag up to Worcester Park.

    Maybe.

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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    pitchshifter wrote:
    Anyone heading SW fancy doing a convoy? :shock:

    Depends what time we're talking.
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Yes 5pm blackfriers ramp. See previous page. Me + Asprilla so far. I'll be leaving from Old Street around 4.50pm.

    Edit sorry see SCR thread.
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    I'm going to be at Blackfriars at closer to 5.30, I think. Some folks are off early but I don't know who and being new here it's poor form to be first out the door. Hoping to be there for 5.15.
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    I had no issues cycling home last night to Clapham Junction. I would continue to commute as normal personally.
  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    You guys need to do a bit of this and nip things in the bud:
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  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Typically, I have to cycle up to Stansted today :-(
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    I think carefully and be preared to u-turn out of any potential trouble is the watchword.

    Flashspots likely to be small and isolated but on the move. Avoid obvious target places like the larger parades of shop - Easier said than done in London.

    I have to potentially cross regent street, oxford street and Tottenham court road on my short commute to Euston - hmmmmm.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Trouble in Hoxton Square, been told to leave the office. Look like I'll be heading off on my own.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Force alarm, apparently the MD is simply monitoring the situation.
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,633
    I'll go past Blackfriars at about 5:20, will stop and ride along if there's anyone there.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    I might be there or later on way home tonight. Blue crumpler and red face mask as ever :D
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  • davmaggs
    davmaggs Posts: 1,008
    Irvinet wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Search Fulham under twitter.

    General warning to take everything on twitter with a pound of salt. Lots and lots of bull$hit on there at the moment(even more than usual). Plenty of it looks like it is just being shared for kicks.

    Search for just about any area of London right now and you will see reports of things happening there.

    I do know that lots of areas have been told to take the precaution of shutting up but I am yet to hear confirmed reports of anything serious kicking off this afternoon. Not saying nothing is happening but if twitter was correct I think the army would be on the streets by now....

    +1

    just because it's on twitter doesn't make it true. Internet blogs and Twitter is prone to massive amounts of hyperbole at times like this.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    The gunshop at the end of my road (seriously, there is a gunshop at the end of my road) now has extra barracades up. A sensible precaution in my opinion. The blue shopfront next to is one of those mini police stations.

    Seen a few more police on the local roads today.

    I've now got to cycle to Dalston. Not really looking forward to it.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Is "plastic/rubber bullet" slang for "love egg"?

    It might make the news stories slightly less depressing.

    "Police used rubber bullets on rioters last night...."
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    blackberry messaging service has been removed/shutdown...
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  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    I might be there or later on way home tonight. Blue crumpler and red face mask as ever :D
    MM, be careful of the police, they're likely to do you for a rioter dressed like that ;)

    I think my route should be OK, bar going right past Wandsworth Southside. Its Embankment all the way to Chelsea and then Wandsworth Bridge, 1 way system then the shopping centre. I'll take my chances and leg it a different way if there's any sign of trouble along there.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blackberry messaging service has been removed/shutdown...

    Nothing here http://uk.blackberry.com/support/ or on any news feed.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blackberry messaging service has been removed/shutdown...

    Source please.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Looks like I'm going at 5pm. Already changed so will be blackfriers for 5.10pm.

    If people are leaving early let me know, I'm ready to go!
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blackberry messaging service has been removed/shutdown...

    Source please.

    security consultant - ask people who have them if the app is available

    we're off home - southwark council suggests we leave in next 30 mins. Won't see you at blackfriars...
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  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blackberry messaging service has been removed/shutdown...

    Source please.

    still working on my phone - not that I'm organising a riot or anything untoward.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    t4tomo wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    blackberry messaging service has been removed/shutdown...

    Source please.

    still working on my phone - not that I'm organising a riot or anything untoward.

    A bit of Googling tells me that it will be a curfew, so not in effect yet. Bit late really as I saw a BBM saying Oxford Circus at 9PM will be the target for tonight.
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    edited August 2011
    Wrath Rob wrote:

    I think my route should be OK, bar going right past Wandsworth Southside. Its Embankment all the way to Chelsea and then Wandsworth Bridge, 1 way system then the shopping centre. I'll take my chances and leg it a different way if there's any sign of trouble along there.

    I live next to Southside so keeping an eye on this. It's all bollocks on twitter, but this guy is posting updates with pics, all looks fine.

    http://tinyurl.com/3wvkzen

    http://yfrog.com/h8tg6drj
  • pitchshifter
    pitchshifter Posts: 1,476
    Sketchley wrote:
    Looks like I'm going at 5pm. Already changed so will be blackfriers for 5.10pm.

    If people are leaving early let me know, I'm ready to go!

    I'll be leaving around 5:15 from whitehall so I may see you. I will be dressed in black for stealth purposes... Oh, and i will be on the single speed :D
  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    I work in Charlton SE London and left an hour ago.

    Total shut down all around.
  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    Il Principe wrote:
    It's all bollocks on twitter, but this guy is posting updates with pics, all looks fine.

    Il Principe - there was loads of bollocks on twitter about Clapham Junction last night. Things on fire, helicopters, it all kicking off. At 7pm nothing, none of it was true, just a few groups of yoofs. 8 o'clock more "its going off" more yoofs, 9 oclock it all went off.

    Seems Twitter feeds are attracting yoofs on the basis of something maybe happening.

    Southside is only down the road from the same scumbags who did last night. They're probably on a power rush, see it as easy to get some goods and they fancy some more. But they'd be stupid to go into southside as the police good block them in and round them up.
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Pictures of looted Evans in chalk farm

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... ml?image=8
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  • dcurzon
    dcurzon Posts: 290
    mounted police patrolling covent garden
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