What's happening to Crystal Palace Road?!

[rosieglow]

Just posting as there's been two spates of burglaries in the last couple of months (including our flat!), damage to a friend's motorbike (a rivet in the tyre), and a big police presence on Friday night moving on a gang of people drinking and parting in the street! Is Crystal Palace Road going bad?! Answers on a postcard please...

[Nero]

It's a very long road with lots of people living on it. I doubt that it's 'going bad' simply because there have been burglarie s, a bit of bike damage and a party out of bounds. (10 points to the person who gets that ref.)

[katie1997]

rosieglow - so sorry to hear about the burglaries and damage to the bike. I bumped into that same gang on Uplands Rd/Hindmans Rd junction on my way home on Fri eve - they were shouting and mucking about by the cars and bins. Police car sat outside that area for ages the following day. Not sure what damage they actually did. They all looked like teenagers to me. Was quite scary walking past them although I was on the pavement and they were in the middle of the road...I hope Crystal Palace Road doesn't go bad and this is a one off incident. xx

[Sue]

I've noticed quite a bit of shouting in my street on weekend evenings in the past couple of weeks, which there never used to be - once or twice I've (bravely!) gone out to have a look but haven't really seen anything going on.

I live in Ulverscroft Road which runs parallel to Crystal Palace Road and is a short walk away.

[jimmy two times]

In Brixton we call that vibrancy and diversity.

[ayresc]

sure we should all be tolerant and encourage a lack of respect for other people's property?

Long live the liberals!

[KidKruger]

nero - B52s.

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[Sue]

jimmy two times Wrote:

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> In Brixton we call that vibrancy and diversity.

xxxxxx

:))

I shall look on the shouting with different eyes from now on. As it were.

[Nero]

As I was saying, CPR is not some Dirty Back Road (KidKruger!) It's got a lot of people on it and it's generally well kept with hardly any derelict or shabby premises. If the noise from the gang is persistent, I'd definitely inform the local PSOs.

[KidKruger]

nero - ditto

[Reg Smeeton]

In about five years time this area is going to PACKED with teenagers, so we probably ain't seen nothing yet.

[Sue]

Reg Smeeton Wrote:

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> In about five years time this area is going to

> PACKED with teenagers, so we probably ain't seen

> nothing yet.

xxxxxxx

Eh?

[mightyroar]

I think Reg may mean that the ongoing baby boom in these here parts will inevitably lead to an explosion in the amount of

youth that are out and about in the future.

[Reg Smeeton]

Mightyroar understands me so well. Families round here have always tended to flee to the burbs when their children reach teens, but some stay and since there are far more primary children here now than for decades, expect more teens soon. Worth thinking about where they'll be expected to hang out.

[flapjackdavey]

did you know , there is no proper name for the back of the knees ?

[Jeremy]

Same as they do anywhere else...

Peckham cinema

McDonald's (Peckham or Camberwell)

Butterfly Walk shopping centre

Outside Costcutter/Londis/7-11 or whatever it's called

Trying to get into Adventure Bar with fake ID

The park (avec cider)

[Keef]

Funnily enough, when I was a teen living in ED, I never hung around in ED. I did my cider drinking around Blackheath, New Cross and Greenwich, because that's where my school pals lived, and where the pubs we'd get served in were.

Are there really that many more primary kids? There are the same amount of primary schools as there were when I was a kid.

[mightyroar]

There are more primary kids. as a direct result of the baby boom that's been happening here over the past few years.

This year Goodrich was forced to take a 'bulge' class as demand exceeded places so much.

[HonaloochieB]

rosieglow Wrote:

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> Just posting as there's been two spates of

> burglaries in the last couple of months (including

> our flat!), damage to a friend's motorbike (a

> rivet in the tyre), and a big police presence on

> Friday night moving on a gang of people drinking

> and parting in the street! Is Crystal Palace Road

> going bad?! Answers on a postcard please...

Rosie, look me in the eyes. Everything's All Right. It really is. I rarely take my swordstick with me when venturing out to a hot food carry-out these days.

This is East Dulwich, not bloody Harlow or bleeding Faversham.

So cool your boots and know everything's alright forever. Or at least until forever decides to stick his old puss round the door.

Anyway hope this postcard finds you as it leaves me.

CUDDLES XXX

[sniffy]

Needed all my Ninja skilz to get home from the CPT!!

http://cinematropolis.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ninja-assassin-rain_l.jpg

[HonaloochieB]

sniffy Wrote:

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> Needed all my Ninja skilz to get home from the

> CPT!!

> http://cinematropolis.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/

> ninja-assassin-rain_l.jpg

Honestly, a chap has a picture taken with the assurance it will remain in private hands and then it's published without his permission.

Frankly I feel a little soiled. Not to say invaded.

[sniffy]

Didn't mean to Soil or Invade you :(

I apologise to you and all my Ninja associates

[tubs]

Sue,

What parish is your road in?

[Sue]

As I'm not a Christian, I've got absolutely no idea.

Why?

ETA: OK Got your PM, sorry didn't see that first, I've answered it