Teenage rampage down Whiteladies

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DOZENS of teenagers marauded down Whiteladies Road, stealing goods from the Esso garage on Blackboy Hill before continuing down the road, causing cars to swerve and pedestrians to hide in restaurants.
The large group are believed to have spent Saturday evening at travelling theme park Funderworld on the Downs.
After leaving the funfair when it closed at 9pm, the children first went to the Esso garage a few hundred yards from the fair's exit.

Filling the small store for less than three minutes, they helped themselves to anything they could get their hands on while garage staff looked on helplessly before phoning the police.
The group then continued on their way, running into the road, shouting and swearing.

Eyewitness Rebecca Martin, 27, a doctor from Richmond Dale, Clifton, was on her way to have dinner with a friend when she saw the youngsters coming down the street "like a herd of stampeding wildebeest".
She said: "We saw two cars having to swerve. There could have been a really nasty accident.
"I had never seen anything like it. We felt quite intimidated.
"All of them seemed to have things, there was no way you could stand in their way. There were so many of them. It was absolute chaos.
"It would have been quite a spectacle if it wasn't so scary. It almost looked like a rampage.
"I was really embarrassed because I had my friend with me who's not from Bristol. I had to say to her that this thing doesn't normally happen around here and that these people were certainly not from around here either."
Geraldine Fucci, owner of Renato's Numero Uno restaurant, also saw what happened.
She said: "They were shouting and spitting. All the customers saw them and heard them.
"The funfair tends to attract a rough crowd from a different area of Bristol and it always seems to bring trouble."
Five youngsters went into Threshers to try to buy cider, but the sale was refused by assistant manager Pavel Josifek because none of the group had identification.
Mr Josifek, 36, said: "They were all very rude to me. I was quite scared because they were being quite aggressive and swearing at me.
"When they left the shop they continued shouting from outside. I was expecting them to come back but fortunately they didn't."
Mike Chubb from Funderworld said: "There's always a minority of idiots who like to cause trouble. We cannot be responsible for things that happen outside Funderworld."
Avon and Somerset police are appealing for information from anyone who saw the hooded youths, who were all black and aged between 13 and 16, enter the Esso garage soon after 9pm on Saturday evening.
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http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/home...hiteladies/article-892770-detail/article.html
 
HumanoidTyphoon said:
usually when you are asking for information regarding criminals, you like to give descriptions
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Makes arrests much easier than stating: "they were youths". How would the police expect to find these hooligans if they don't give an adequate description?
 
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Back to the topic at hand: is this the future we can expect from the youths in this country? The lack of discipline and mollycoddling by the state has turned the teens of this country into renegades. What happens when they grow up?
 
timgaul said:
Makes arrests much easier than stating: "they were youths". How would the police expect to find these hooligans if they don't give an adequate description?

Honestly, someone has to pull the race card. Always one friggin' idiot in the crowd that doesn't focus on the actual issues.
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I'd hardly call '13-16 year old black hooded youth' an adequate description.

timgaul said:
Back to the topic at hand: is this the future we can expect from the youths in this country? The lack of discipline and mollycoddling by the state has turned the teens of this country into renegades. What happens when they grow up?
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Durggies?They are lucky they don't have tik problem.
In South Africa the youth can do what they want and get away with it,we are lucky these sort of things are not the norm.
 
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theratman said:
I'd hardly call '13-16 black hooded youth' an adequate description.
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Had someone spotted them later they may have information. Far more appropriate than a bunch of people ransacked a garage don't you think?

How would you describe them then? Go on, please do tell.
 
timgaul said:
Back to the topic at hand: is this the future we can expect from the youths in this country? The lack of discipline and mollycoddling by the state has turned the teens of this country into renegades. What happens when they grow up?
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This happened in the UK! How is that ANY indication of things to come here?

*awaits for racial streotyping to commence*
 
sox63 said:
I'd hate to be a black youth that has a hoody in that town. Not much of a description if you ask me. ;)
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Sox, someone may have spotted the group before or after the rampage, on the night, and got a much better look at their faces. These are the people they are appealing to, not to go out and find them days later. If they have a much better idea of how these guys presented themselves it helps for any witnesses who may know more to come forward.
 
'Five youngsters went into Threshers to try to buy cider, but the sale was refused by assistant manager Pavel Josifek because none of the group had identification'

Tall,short,fat,thin.Clothing brands,distinguishing marks?Perhaps there was a camera in the shop?
 
timgaul said:
Sox, someone may have spotted the group before or after the rampage, on the night, and got a much better look at their faces. These are the people they are appealing to, not to go out and find them days later. If they have a much better idea of how these guys presented themselves it helps for any witnesses who may know more to come forward.
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What I was getting at was the blanket description. Imagine how every single black youth in the town will be rounded up, becuase they have a hoody. ;)
 
theratman said:
'Five youngsters went into Threshers to try to buy cider, but the sale was refused by assistant manager Pavel Josifek because none of the group had identification'

Tall,short,fat,thin.Clothing brands,distinguishing marks?Perhaps there was a camera in the shop?
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And that, my friend, is what the police are after. Anyone who was at those specific areas, at that time, when a group of hooded black 13-16 year olds rampaged a garage and attacked motorists and pedestrians, please come forward to make a statement so that we may be able to better identify these youths. For anyone involved this is an adequate description.

Its called an investigation, you don't have all the facts up front. The police weren't there but they're calling on witnesses who were.
 
sox63 said:
What I was getting at was the blanket description. Imagine how every single black youth in the town will be rounded up, becuase they have a hoody. ;)
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Well, the appeal is for witnesses (as in, at the location at the time in question who saw anyone fitting this blanket description) to the events. Not for township residents who may have seen a suspicious character.
 
timgaul said:
And that, my friend, is what the police are after. Anyone who was at those specific areas, at that time, when a group of hooded black 13-16 year olds rampaged a garage and attacked motorists and pedestrians, please come forward to make a statement so that we may be able to better identify these youths. For anyone involved this is an adequate description.

Its called an investigation, you don't have all the facts up front. The police weren't there but they're calling on witnesses who were.
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Point conceeded:)
 
sox63 said:
This happened in the UK! How is that ANY indication of things to come here?

*awaits for racial streotyping to commence*
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Ill discipline, a poor education system, the encouragement of living on welfare - it'd say we're doing a pretty good job of mimicking Britain. An ill-disciplined and aimless youth are only to be expected.
 
timgaul said:
Ill discipline, a poor education system, the encouragement of living on welfare - it'd say we're doing a pretty good job of mimicking Britain. An ill-disciplined and aimless youth are only to be expected.
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The UK has a poor education system? I thought that was one of the reasons people flock there in the first place.

Ill disciplened the youth that did this are though.
 
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