Thursday, 7 June 2012

I Guess Their Blood Was Up?

Duanette Gray was travelling on the number 50 bus, when she saw what she described as a “mini-riot.”
She said: “It was hard to tell who was hitting who at the time, but the butchers had at least one man down on the ground and were attacking him.
“He disappeared amid the chaos and then they went for this big transit van. The van was trashed the mirrors gone, window smashed in.
The butchers began to attack a bus coming from the opposite direction which really frightened us; it seemed they were only hitting it as it was in the way of the van.
“The butchers seemed to be looking for someone around the corner near the van, and then out of nowhere the man came running at them with what looked like a machete.
“Everyone on the bus was standing up trying to look out the window, screaming and crying. It was terrifying.”
I well remember our local butcher (before the rise of the supermarkets) - a huge, ruddy-faced man, assisted by a spindly, acne-faced youth on Saturdays, always genial and pleasant, despite the strength he must have possessed to chop and saw through giant, half-frozen carcases.

The thought that he might have decided to run amok in the high street as a result of an altercation with a customer, or attack one of London Transport's finest simply because he couldn't get to the object of his wrath, seems so far fetched as to be utterly impossible.

Still, we must have vibrant, multicultural diversity, it seems. We are all the better for it.

Aren't we?

14 comments:

  1. I read the post before the red link and thought "Croydon or Hull?".
    Fertile ground both.

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  2. So not Mr Dewhurst then? Not my local Kosher butcher either.

    I was uplifted to see all those lovely Jubilee street parties in the UK's islamist enclaves over the weekend, Union Jack bowlers atop burkhas etc. .... the UK really came together over the weekend?

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  3. ...black people.

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  4. Captain Haddock7 June 2012 at 17:10

    "Duanette" ?

    I've heard it all now .. ;)

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  5. Sounds like a Wu-Tang Clan video

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  6. All parliamentary politicians should be accommodated in Croydon.

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  7. I am trying to guess what happened. A Calvin Fairweather has been charged with GBH x 2.
    Looks like a game of ethnic minority 'Top Trumps' will be played out in Court..

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  8. Beautiful British name.
    Didn't expect it to be Arthur Postlethwaite did you?

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  9. "I read the post before the red link and thought "Croydon or Hull?"."

    ;)

    "So not Mr Dewhurst then? "

    That was, actually, my local butcher when I was growing up!

    "Looks like a game of ethnic minority 'Top Trumps' will be played out in Court.."

    Spot on!

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  10. I did as Jaded did - but I thought, "Sounds like the highway to halal". How prejudiced I am. Harriet Harman would make me sit on the naughty step.

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  11. Remember the racism we used to have in the Bad Old Days? Thank goodness we're all one big happy family now.

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  12. "J & J Halal Butcher and Grocer."

    Spot the key word there...

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  13. Those naughty Methodists at it again eh?

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  14. "How prejudiced I am. Harriet Harman would make me sit on the naughty step."

    Oooh, stick around then! You're going to love today's posts... ;)

    "Thank goodness we're all one big happy family now."

    Heh! Indeed...

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