Police everywhere, no pubs or shops are open...cool as hell!Has something similar ever happened to you?
My Hometown is Locked Down
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My Hometown is Locked Down
Yeah, it's not showing up on any news yet, but apparently, football riots have shut down all bolton town centre! This reminds me of 28 days later, I want to go down and check out the scal wars. Police everywhere, no pubs or shops are open...cool as hell!
Has something similar ever happened to you?
Police everywhere, no pubs or shops are open...cool as hell!Has something similar ever happened to you?
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They should send Amir Kahn in to sort it out! 
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Re: My Hometown is Locked Down
Local fires made everyone have to wear masks outside in my area once. It was sort of cool because everything smelled like smoke. Except the fact that I had asthma it was pretty cool because our place was locked in.Rye wrote:Has something similar ever happened to you?
Only the best disaster song ever.Admiral Valdemar wrote:My girlfriend lives there!
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I hope she takes pictures of the place tearing itself apart.
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Cool, it made the BBC!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 138094.stm
500 England fans in police battle
Drunken fans battled with police for nearly three hours in Bolton in the aftermath of England's World Cup exit.
Greater Manchester Police said between 300 to 500 drunken supporters spilled out of pubs in the Bradshaw Gate area of Bolton and started fighting.
Police were attacked as the tried to quell the disturbance but the large numbers of fans overwhelmed officers.
The tactical aid unit was used but it still took more than two and half hours to restore calm. There were 12 arrests.
'Good humour'
All town centre pubs and bars closed voluntarily and reopened 2120 BST.
Ch Supt Dave Lea from Bolton said: "It is regrettable that it was necessary for us to take this action as a result of the behaviour of a small number of individuals who were clearly intent on causing trouble.
"I witnessed for myself the good humour and co-operation of the majority caught up in this and would like to thank these people for their help in restoring order."
No members of the public were injured, said police.
The emboldened part is bullshit, though. There was a 40th birthday party going on in the Dog and Partridge that they pretty much begged to keep going (since the pub is pretty much going under), and the police said they'd be suspended from trading for a week and have a hefty fine if they didn't turf everyone out!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 138094.stm
500 England fans in police battle
Drunken fans battled with police for nearly three hours in Bolton in the aftermath of England's World Cup exit.
Greater Manchester Police said between 300 to 500 drunken supporters spilled out of pubs in the Bradshaw Gate area of Bolton and started fighting.
Police were attacked as the tried to quell the disturbance but the large numbers of fans overwhelmed officers.
The tactical aid unit was used but it still took more than two and half hours to restore calm. There were 12 arrests.
'Good humour'
All town centre pubs and bars closed voluntarily and reopened 2120 BST.
Ch Supt Dave Lea from Bolton said: "It is regrettable that it was necessary for us to take this action as a result of the behaviour of a small number of individuals who were clearly intent on causing trouble.
"I witnessed for myself the good humour and co-operation of the majority caught up in this and would like to thank these people for their help in restoring order."
No members of the public were injured, said police.
The emboldened part is bullshit, though. There was a 40th birthday party going on in the Dog and Partridge that they pretty much begged to keep going (since the pub is pretty much going under), and the police said they'd be suspended from trading for a week and have a hefty fine if they didn't turf everyone out!
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Listen to my music! http://www.soundclick.com/nihilanth
"America is, now, the most powerful and economically prosperous nation in the country." - Master of Ossus
Listen to my music! http://www.soundclick.com/nihilanth
"America is, now, the most powerful and economically prosperous nation in the country." - Master of Ossus