Riot at Apple store in China
Chinese consumers appetite for Apple products erupted into chaos today when a crowd that had queued through a sub-zero Beijing night for the first mainland Chinese sales of the iPhone 4S turned into a screaming, egg-hurling rage when Apple’s nerves cracked and it failed to open the shop as promised. Apple also said that it would [...]
Levi’s forced to pull riot ad
Levi’s has withdrawn an ad campaign that features a young man squaring up to riot police after a public outcry that it glorified the recent public disorder across the country. The advert, which Levi’s launched on Facebook on Tuesday night, was due to be aired on television and in cinemas. The “Levi’s Legacy” advert shows a young [...]
Broom army shows defiance against the UK riots
Communities across England have been looking to show the country has more spirit than the thugs. 100os of peoplehave turned out with raised brooms in London, Birmingham and Liverpool and Manchester to tidy up the havoc left by rioters. Tweet This Post
Manchester police beat up rioter
A group of seven police officers were filmed chasing down three suspects close to Manchester city centre and beating them with truncheons. Riot police had apparently spent ten minutes chasing down the thugs not far from where a Miss Selfridge store was torched by yobs. A police officer appears to kick one of the trio [...]
#UKriots day 5 the aftermath
Calm seems to have descended across the nation. Now its time for analysis and the odd pithy comment and insightful analysis. photoshoplooter jimmyosmond Jimmy Osmond - Have been shocked at the footage I’ve seen of the UK riots, my heart goes out to those effected, stay safe @BBCNews downgrading their headlines from UK Riots to England Riots. Media has a lot to answer for [...]
London Looting
Footage of youths smashing into T mobile in Brixton 8/08/2011 Tweet This Post
London Riots – Crowd rampage
Video footage of London riots Tweet This Post
Tottenham Riots – Timelapse video
The burning of Tottenham – a timelapse video. Tweet This Post
Riot Here Riot Now – UK riots – live commentary – Manchester riots
UPDATE 22.00 So one of our writers saw about twenty lads breaking into High and Mighty. They’d failed to get into Bang and Olufsson. There was a big lad – the boss – of about thirty five years old sat laughing against a lamppost. “Look lads, he’s taking pictures, sort the fucker.” Our man was [...]