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I'd like to know who's selfish parents ran up a credit card bill for their kids as mine certainly didn't!! They went to uni on grants to make their lives better for themselves and us. They help us out in a situation now that they couldn't predict. That's life though people. Anyway so when Is M&S happening?

What a middle class theft!! I had a friend who had a tree stolen from his garden and I had one of my window boxes pinched. What is the world coming too?!

where should it be put instead?

caro ed, I hope you wer ebeing ironic about nitpicking there ;-p Yes thanks for the great forum!

hear hear Buccaneer! The clear up shows community spirit, and part of community is helping those in need. The rioters haven't broken that community spirit, and this shows them and hopefully shames them into seeing that the people in the clear up are the better people, happier and likely to have a better life in the long term for it.

Damian H, it is a shame the police didn't show, I hear this kind of thing about the police a lot. The one time I had dealings with the police they were superb. I used to live by Ruskin park and my housemate was attacked when she was cycling home. About 12 kids surrounded her, tried to grab her bag and one punched her in the face but she cycled through and got home. I told her to call the police when she got back, my boyfriend told us not to bother as "they won't do anything anyway". I insisted however, saying that those kids could attack someone else and after ringing (the local number rather than 999!) they turned up about 2 minutes after the phone call (much to our surprise). They went back to the area just in time to catch these kids mugging someone else, taking his wallet, and saved the poor chap!

I don't think they care about the shops they trash. They smashed up a hairdresser's shop in Brixton for no reason. And the buses have had nothing to steal. I think if the butchers did get looted perhaps we would know it was ED residents rather than kids, after their tasty steaks for dinner!

Wow, everyone here tonight needs to get shorter horses.

I had a window box stolen last year, I was very cross but did chuckle a bit that it must have been a middle class thief! It was so annoying as it was part of a set of 3, 2 larger and 1 small. The remaining large and small look very stupid (at least if they had stolen the small, the two large would still look nice). They have now been resigned to the back garden!