F1 Fanatic

For those who have been living under a rock for the past few days, fairly large riots have broken out across major cities in England.
Large scale looting, burnt out cars and buildings left in ruin.

The police have had to deal with it, with all the restrictions that prevent them from hurting the offenders too much. Lots of arrests have been made.

From what I know the riots are for no good reason at all.

This may seem off topic a bit, but let’s say the British GP was on this weekend.
Would people on this forum be as quick to want a cancellation as they were in the case of Bahrain?

The people “rioting” are thugs out to loot shops and looking for trouble just to get their kicks. The people who were getting killed and arrested because of their religious sects in Bahrain were peacefull citizens wanting to improve their lives…. wheres the similarities?

Would it have made a difference to the race? who knows.

I just hope things turns good for the country & all the F1F people I know leaves there stays out of trouble.

polishboy – Although technically they have a point(That man that was killed really shouldn’t have been shot, no matter what he did in the past they had no basis for shooting him….)

You were there were you? You know this to be fact? It is this stupid jumping to conclusions that causes the problem in the first place. It is very sad when someone gets killed no matter what the circumstances, but occasionally it will be necessary and it will happen. On this occasion, who knows? Not us; the investigation is ongoing and details have quite rightly not been released while it is ongoing. So stop speculating on the rights and wrongs on what happened there until we know.

As for the rioting, it has nothing to do with the shooting whatsoever, it is not a protest. The scum have simply realised if they all go shoplifting together en mass the authorities have trouble dealing with it because of the numbers involved. They are not trying to make a point, they are just stealing stuff for personal gain and smashing stuff up for fun. Do not make a single excuse for them.

They seem to just be making up ‘reasons’, the shooting, adults not respecting them, not having enough job opportunities. Yeah, because an employer will really want to employ someone who’s been smashing stuff, setting fire to buildings and looting shops.

They aren’t rioting because of the shot man. They jumped on that excuse when a scuffle broke out, and when they realised that in force they could get away with anything they decided they may as well make the most of it. There is no reason other than for fun or greed when robbing.

Yes it should still be held. If people stayed inside at night in cities they’d be fine, and Silverstone itself isn’t exactly a metropolis- there wouldn’t be any trouble there.

If there was a reason people would be rioting and smashing up everything. Instead it’s only Currys, Carphone Warehouse, Foot locker etc. that are being looted. Waterstones was left unscathed.

I’d also like to point out one excuse I heard a bunch of rioters on the news say- they were smashing up the corner shops (things like newsagents, the owners of which are not exactly known for their vast wealth) because ‘they are people who are rich cos they own their own businesses.’ Some of these people may have been coerced into it. But the majority of people are just thick, and/or have a huge disregard for other people. Off topic rant over.

Edit: I’m not surprised they left Waterstones alone, but then again they’ve also looted (or more likely gone for the till) charity shops and carpet shops.