Devon riots, no chance!!

[RATTER15]

I watched a report on TV that people were trying to start riots in Devon towns and cities through Facebook, the names of the shops in the towns and cities were advertised as starting and meeting points for these riots. The TV camera crews turned out to watch, fortunately, no one else turned up :-)

I have never known a riot in Devon or Cornwall, I just cant see it somehow.

We really consider ourselves very fortunate in this neck of the woods.

I suppose one day it will change. :-(

[Philtaz]

Organise a riot in Devon?

The clots.......








I'll get me coat.

[DTCwordfan]

Take away our rights to make cider, cream or pasties, (allowing for our x-Tama rivalries), there would be a bleddy riot.

I heard today that the council of Redruth were proposing a looting and arson evening in the town centre. They believed that they would qualify for several million of national and EEC improvement grants as a result.

[askyourgran]

I hope it doesn't I can't believe it would happen there ratter. We have been quite lucky in Leeds, just a bit of a kerfuffle last night in Chapeltown, which is a predominantly black/asian prostitute area of Leeds. Today they have had a peace march there, mostly black carribbean/west indians asking for peace. And there are no reports of anything happening tonight.

[plautus]

Try googling Cornish riots. Newlyn and Camborne spring to mind.

[NOX]

They've lost their touch, Newlynn and Cambourne were rife with riots in the 19th century:)

[DTCwordfan]

Thanks Cicero, that was interesting - you learn something everyday.

[NOX]

Snap Plautus:)

[RATTER15]

Philtaz, Exactly!!

I agree DT, just leave off our cream, Cider and "Devon" pasties and all will be well.

[DTCwordfan]

might see if I can start a riot tomorrow - but I am afraid it will be just sheep...

[RATTER15]

DT, I can rustle up a few chickens and goats!!

[DTCwordfan]

more the merrier - Praze and Beeble here we come - lock up your hens.

[DTCwordfan]

NOX 0- nae be any towns spelt newlynn or cambourne down here, me 'ansome. newlyn and camborne perhaps but definitely nae newlynn or cambourne.I'd be living down here centuries an I can say that.

They may have a St Ives up yon country but that aint a real one either. Tt be right real down here.

[RATTER15]

We rule!!!! http://www.google.co....8&ved=1t:429,r:23,s:0

[Buenchico]

http://www.peoplesrep...ead-riots-in-the-bay/

[DTCwordfan]

http://news.sky.com/h...news/article/15089522

aah, but we were the first to invent canned beef.

[RATTER15]

Oh no!!!! We are born rioters.


From Buenchico's link >> In 1847 rising prices caused real distress to the working class and Bread Riots broke out across Devon.

Dawlish, Okehampton, Cullompton, Crediton and Tiverton all saw disturbances, and on May 17 a Torquay mob ransacked bakers’ shops in lower Union Street, ‘the contents of which were carried off by the women in their aprons’.<<<<

Even in my home town of Dawlish!!!

[lankeela]

Now don't you go ransacking the local butchers for some raw meat Ratter!