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pablogrande Wrote:

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> How much longer do you think we'll be calling them

> video shops? doesn't make much sense now they

> don't rent videos.

>

> What a lovely all emcompassing word video is/was

> "I'm just going to put a video in the video

> because I want to video some videos on MTV"



Just like another all purpose Englis word. "This f******, f***** is f*****. F*** it", often used when the video fails to work.

boom boom scor46


Obviously this is about the incident rather than the video shop and I hope no-one got injured. But I think the concept oof such a store existing in 5 years time, regardless of what it is called, is very remote. Hard media (be it Ble Ray or HDDVD) will be dirt cheap to buy while casusal viewing will be streamed. Rents will make shops like this redundant I believe

Hi,


I'm a long time forum observer, and first time poster.


I walked into the video store today just after 2pm to print something. The shop assistant was on the phone. When she put down the receiver to serve me I noticed she had been crying. I immediately assumed she'd been dumped by her boyfriend, and not wanting to pry, I didn't ask her if anything was wrong. With her blotchy red face and holding back tears she talked me through the costs of printing and what to do to log on to a terminal. I sat down and then a minute later half a dozen police arrived. Apparently moments earlier a guy had come in with a gun and held up the young attendant. There were about a dozen other people at the computer terminals and not one noticed him. He must have held her up very quietly.

Surely the most stupid criminals were the teenagers who robbed the Co-Op on Forest Hill Road , their local convencience store at the end of their road. They were found really easily by the police with thousands of quid in their bedrooms. The dangerous thing is that they had live weapons. Young, stupid and armed. Nero

The video shop is now called Prime Time before it was Filmnight for a short while and before that Apollo. What has happened to the Apollo chain? One across from Brockwell Park has closed down too.



Anyway, the police caught the 17 year old lad with the takings (?70) and he had a real gun.


What a plonker

Apart from the fact that he thinks it makes him ?hard? I seriously doubt that the kid would have ever been taught how to use a gun properly. Just lucky he didn?t accidentally kill someone or himself.


My mate was working at the betting shop across from the uplands a couple of months ago when they got held up in there at gunpoint.

William Hill opposite the Plough DIY on LL was held up by kids with guns a couple of months ago. They robbed the customers and the cashiers.


Nowadays if I get cut up by a youth pushing out db's in a Fiat punto I think twice before stopping my car and hurling abuse.


I'm now beginning to think it's safer in Jo'burg.

Lozzyloz I've had a gun pulled on me twice driving in Jo'burg*. Not yet in London thankfully. I still feel kinda safer here. Not seen any shoot-outs in shopping centres in London yet either.


*Well technically once in Edenvale and once in Boksburg for those who know the local geography.

The only gun issues I had in SA were with the idiots carrying them for self defence (allegedly) who mostly shoot themselves or friends by accident! I was threatened with a gun in North London 15 years ago but those were different times. Nowadays a gun seems to be used all too indiscriminately by an element of youth that are unpredictable and play by different rules than you and I. In SA you more or less knew where you were likely to get held up and could at least take some preventative action like not stopping at robots. Now it seems renting a DVD (or video) is on the list of hazhards.

"robots" :)) Not heard that in a while loz.


You are correct though. Both times I had guns pulled on me it was not to rob me. The one was some drunk aggressive cunt and the other was an aggressive taxi driver who took offence to me taking offence to him driving like a cunt.

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