riots
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Riot-Busting Backpack Scorches Your Face, Dyes You Blue
If you’re rioting/looting/celebrating the victory of your local footy squad, and you see a cop with one of these — run in the opposite direction. The Crowd Buster is well-named, firing 20 litres of pepper spray up to 45m.
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MI5 Is Now On The Hunt For British BBMers
As the saga of London rioting and social media blocking continues, the British government is calling in the spooks. They’re now summoning MI5 and GCHQ to help not block but track the messages that might be the root of the trouble. Christ.
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UK Prime Minister’s Anti-Tech Crackdown: Stupid, Useless, Wrong
England’s youths are angry and rioting. And, because it’s 2011, they’re using technology to organise. Well, as much as a violent mob can be organised. But British Prime Minister David Cameron wants to cut them off. He’s very, very wrong.
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Are Rioters Already Trying To Sell Their Stolen Crap Online?
Last night, an ad displaying 40 boxed and sealed 16 iPhone 4s popped up on Craiglist’s London website. First a shameless Twitter stolen swag pic and now this? That’s totally not suspicious at all.