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UK rioters = bored thugs? Or media spin?

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:51 pm
by Skullbussa
The impression from the stateside is that the rioters are just a bunch of bored, angry thugs. The same types who looted during Hurricane Katrina here in the USA and in Canada when that hockey team lost.

Is this impression correct?

Re: UK rioters = bored thugs? Or media spin?

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:52 pm
by Pada
theres a rather large thread on the riots already bud

Re: UK rioters = bored thugs? Or media spin?

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:53 pm
by legend4ry
Not bored; i'd say more influenced by the prospect of free material possessions they can't afford.

Theres already a huge thread, though.

Re: UK rioters = bored thugs? Or media spin?

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:54 pm
by Lichee
Yes. Unemployed, poor and generally angry.

Re: UK rioters = bored thugs? Or media spin?

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:55 pm
by wub
Use the other thread.