Trouble at the video shop

[Nero]

There was police tape around the outside of the video shop about an hour ago, and an officer inside and a police car outside. Not sure what went on. Nero

[krosfyah]

This could be headsay so take it with a pinch of salt but i heard it was a late 30's Hoxwich yumster who smashed the place up with her Bugaboo because they weren't stocking Bluray copies of Desperately Seeking Susan yet.

[Nero]

Or it could be the irony-police out in pre-emptive force. Nero

[pablogrande]

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"

[Nero]

I agree. It shows just how user-friendly English is. Unfort, people started to use VCR a few years ago, which was very US-English, but since VCR's/videos are a dying breed, the term shouldn't be around for that much longer. Nero

[Marmora Man]

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.

[Rockets]

I am not sure whatever happened started at the video shop as earlier a woman was ranting and raving from the window above one of the shops and a police car and van pulled up and double parked outside the flat. They later had moved down to outside the video shop.

[scor46]

did anyone get this on vidoe???

[SeanMacGabhann]

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

[ED Flaneur]

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.

[krosfyah]

Well blow me two sheets sideways, and there was me just proclaiming ED had lost it's "edginess"!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Oy vey. How awful for her. And she had to continue working straight afterwards. . ?

[Mark]

blimey, hope she's ok but who on earth would hold up a video shop on a Monday afternoon? Did they get away with anything?

[ED Flaneur]

Don't know if they got away with anything. The police took everyone's details and as I didn't see anything (and couldn't find the document I needed to print on my memory stick) I left without asking any questions.

[SimonM]

>>blimey, hope she's ok but who on earth would hold up a video shop on a Monday afternoon<<

The same sort of moron who'd rob the likes of Willow perhaps? "Move to East Dulwich! Meet London's stupidest criminals..."

SimonM

[Nero]

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

[mockney piers]

Thank god the new generation are so lazy! See, consoles are a good thing.

If they'd been out playing football and climbing trees all their youth, they might have gone further afield and not been caught.

[karter]

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

[Brendan]

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.

[ratty]

People who carry guns deserve shooting! Shame he didn't fall over on it and blow his own face off quite frankly!

[lozzyloz]

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.

[Brendan]

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.

[lozzyloz]

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.

[MadWorld74]

What video shop is this? The one next to the Dulwich Cafe on LL. Shit I was in there on Monday afternoon. And I narrowly missed the hold up in the Co-Op.

[Brendan]

"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.