What is hacking you off today?

[RobM]

The price of trains.

Looked up for Solihull and it was like £60+ per person.
To go to Ipswich next Tuesday was like £38. Its like an 1.20min journey ffs

Go abroad and you can travel the length of the country for about £10 we pay nearly 4 times as much to go to the next county.

Agreed. Flight to Menorca - £14. Single Pitsea-Southend £6. Hmmm...

 

[RHB]

We finished dinner tonight and decided to give the aircon in the car a blast and pop down for a Rossi on the sea front (has to be done!). Took a slow drive along the seafront and when we got as far as the kids fountains outside the amusement arcades there must have been in the region of 10/12 police cars parked up and more riot vans parked in side roads. There were an awful lot of young teenagers just gathering around down there and presumably the police just wanted to make sure things didn't kick off. Anyway, we drove back to the Chalkwell end and maybe 3/4 more police cars came hurtling down the other side with blues and twos going full on. Not sure that it hacked me off but it's disappointing that folk can't just behave without the need for a large police presence which may yet end in tears tonight.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

We finished dinner tonight and decided to give the aircon in the car a blast and pop down for a Rossi on the sea front (has to be done!). Took a slow drive along the seafront and when we got as far as the kids fountains outside the amusement arcades there must have been in the region of 10/12 police cars parked up and more riot vans parked in side roads. There were an awful lot of young teenagers just gathering around down there and presumably the police just wanted to make sure things didn't kick off. Anyway, we drove back to the Chalkwell end and maybe 3/4 more police cars came hurtling down the other side with blues and twos going full on. Not sure that it hacked me off but it's disappointing that folk can't just behave without the need for a large police presence which may yet end in tears tonight.

Echo reported earlier a dispersal order had been given for town centre & seafront area from 4.30pm today until 2am Weds morning, due to 'gangs' of teenagers arriving in town earlier today.
If you saw them loitering around, which presumedly was after 4.30pm, then that hasn't gone as planned?.
Where the hell do they muster that amount of Police vehicles from, as many days you'd be lucky to see a couple all day?.

 

[Special Blue]

We finished dinner tonight and decided to give the aircon in the car a blast and pop down for a Rossi on the sea front (has to be done!). Took a slow drive along the seafront and when we got as far as the kids fountains outside the amusement arcades there must have been in the region of 10/12 police cars parked up and more riot vans parked in side roads. There were an awful lot of young teenagers just gathering around down there and presumably the police just wanted to make sure things didn't kick off. Anyway, we drove back to the Chalkwell end and maybe 3/4 more police cars came hurtling down the other side with blues and twos going full on. Not sure that it hacked me off but it's disappointing that folk can't just behave without the need for a large police presence which may yet end in tears tonight.

Did you enjoy the ice cream?
With the sun you seem to get idiots! Why who knows?

 

[RHB]

Did you enjoy the ice cream?
With the sun you seem to get idiots! Why who knows?

An absolutely superb Rossi 99 with tub ice cream outside their cafe under a huge umbrella and a gentle breeze. It doesn't get any better than that. Oh, and free parking outside as it was past 18:00hrs.

 

[Holy Joe]

Echo reported earlier a dispersal order had been given for town centre & seafront area from 4.30pm today until 2am Weds morning, due to 'gangs' of teenagers arriving in town earlier today.
If you saw them loitering around, which presumedly was after 4.30pm, then that hasn't gone as planned?.
Where the hell do they muster that amount of Police vehicles from, as many days you'd be lucky to see a couple all day?.

It could easily pretty much every unit from Chelmsford, Basildon, Thurrock areas

 

[JAL]

Echo reported earlier a dispersal order had been given for town centre & seafront area from 4.30pm today until 2am Weds morning, due to 'gangs' of teenagers arriving in town earlier today.
If you saw them loitering around, which presumedly was after 4.30pm, then that hasn't gone as planned?.
Where the hell do they muster that amount of Police vehicles from, as many days you'd be lucky to see a couple all day?.

Seen a massive group of teenagers get on at West Ham on the C2C, wild guess would say Southend was the destination.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

It could easily pretty much every unit from Chelmsford, Basildon, Thurrock areas

Fingers x there's no problems in those areas with locals tonight?.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Seen a massive group of teenagers get on at West Ham on the C2C, wild guess would say Southend was the destination.

Some guy reported that the 14.04pm from Fenchurch St, had large numbers of various teenage gangs on it?.
Local traders observed them roaming around town, & notified OB, who reacted from then.

 

[JAL]

Some guy reported that the 14.04pm from Fenchurch St, had large numbers of various teenage gangs on it?.
Local traders observed them roaming around town, & notified OB, who reacted from then.

I got on the 1:30-1:40 from Fenchurch so seems like quite a few were going down then.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I got on the 1:30-1:40 from Fenchurch so seems like quite a few were going down then.

As the dispersal order only covered Southend town centre & the sea front, probably all down Leigh Old Town now?.

 

[harveyoe]

We finished dinner tonight and decided to give the aircon in the car a blast and pop down for a Rossi on the sea front (has to be done!). Took a slow drive along the seafront and when we got as far as the kids fountains outside the amusement arcades there must have been in the region of 10/12 police cars parked up and more riot vans parked in side roads. There were an awful lot of young teenagers just gathering around down there and presumably the police just wanted to make sure things didn't kick off. Anyway, we drove back to the Chalkwell end and maybe 3/4 more police cars came hurtling down the other side with blues and twos going full on. Not sure that it hacked me off but it's disappointing that folk can't just behave without the need for a large police presence which may yet end in tears tonight.

This ties in with a story my daughter, who works at the Forum, told me. They had to close The Forum briefly and then at the end of her shift a couple of their bouncers had to escort her and another girl to the station. All this was due to a gang hanging around there.

When you say the library employs bouncers quickly, it seems okay. Then when you start thinking about it a bit more, the question is. As a society, where and when did we f--k things up so badly that we now need bouncers in a library.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

The problems started a few weeks back when lots of gangs came down from west Essex and East London one very hot day. They were openly allowed to smoke skunk, sniff coke, and breath in those little capsule things. Then they vocally abused locals and family's. Then the fighting started. and two were stabbed, and a lot more had facial injuries through being punched or hit with chairs etc. The police were very few, (That's why they got away with the drug taking) and couldn't cope. So they did the dispersal order. Quite a few seafront businesses shut, as injured were coming in, and staff were being threatened. So now they probably think Southend seafront is an easy touch, and not many police, and they can do what they want. This time thankfully, there were a lot more police. Hopefully, they stop coming here, but I doubt it.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

The problems started a few weeks back when lots of gangs came down from west Essex and East London one very hot day. They were openly allowed to smoke skunk, sniff coke, and breath in those little capsule things. Then they vocally abused locals and family's. Then the fighting started. and two were stabbed, and a lot more had facial injuries through being punched or hit with chairs etc. The police were very few, (That's why they got away with the drug taking) and couldn't cope. So they did the dispersal order. Quite a few seafront businesses shut, as injured were coming in, and staff were being threatened. So now they probably think Southend seafront is an easy touch, and not many police, and they can do what they want. This time thankfully, there were a lot more police. Hopefully, they stop coming here, but I doubt it.

That's a very sad account of events that happened. Not advocating violence in any way, but why didn't locals see them off?. There's enough of them by what you read, to see off troublesome outsiders?.
Or were the brawls between them & the out of towners?.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

So here's a bit of what happened yesterday, taken from the Echo.
GANGS of youths who were fighting, using cannabis and laughing gas sparked a police dispersal order on Southend seafront, according to seafront traders.

Huge numbers of sunseekers descended on the seafront yesterday and worried traders raised the alarm with police before the dispersal order was put in place.

The order is in place in Southend until 2am tomorrow and covers Eastern and Western Esplanade, Marine Parade and the High Street.

Police bosses say it comes in response to incidents of anti-social behaviour and concerns raised by traders along the seafront.

However, seafront traders have insisted gangs of youths were causing trouble and using drugs.

Paul Thompson, owner of Pebbles One Café, on the seafront said: “There were gangs abusing drugs, they were smoking cannabis and using laughing gas.

“Some of them then started fighting each other and we are talking about quite a lot of them.

“The gangs were fighting and is escalated a bit.

“Police were here and dealt with it quickly.”

He added: “I saw one or two fights and I was on a call about police work and some of my staff knocked on my door and told me they were concerned.

“I called the police about what was going on here.

“Police have done a great job with swift responses to it.

“I say well done to the police.”

Martin Richardson, owner of Happidrome Arcade said: “I was on a call and was told to look outside quickly and there was a huge police presence with about five cars outside my business.

“I saw lots of gangs just running about the seafront.”

Acting Insp Dave Gardiner, of the Southend Community Policing Team, said: “We began to see groups of males arriving at the train station and along the seafront in the middle of the afternoon and received multiple calls from business owners who expressed their unease.

“We will take robust action against anyone behaving anti-socially or committing acts of violence.

“There will be a considerable police presence across the city and we will be working with the council’s CCTV operators and our colleagues at the British Transport Police to identify troublemakers and prevent them from spoiling the evening for the law-abiding majority.”

 

[Supershrimper]

Shame we can't build a couple of colosseums around the country, invite the rival gangs in to fight each other with the winner staying on. Losers get a nice burial or feed to the lions

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

It reads a bit like the old days of skins, mods, rockers.
How about getting some transport police and revenue people at main stations checking them coming off train, many won't have tickets, a few drugs dogs would be a help.
And the much lauded car number plate reading cameras could throw up a lot of untaxed, un insured cars for stops.
Cannabis is ILLEGAL, nick the feck wits if they want to flaunt it in public.

 

[kaymac]

Didn’t they used to lock the train doors back in the old days to stop them getting off?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Didn’t they used to lock the train doors back in the old days to stop them getting off?

They used to line the Skinheads up at Southend Central and Southend Victoria, and give them all a warning, and take their boot laces out of their Doc Martens and army boots. So it was harder to run about with no boot laces, and it was harder to use the boots in a fight. The local shops in town were banned from selling shoe and boot laces on the Bank Holiday Mondays when the skins were in town.

 

[Floval Flyer]

Cracked a molar, so had to got and have it removed this afternoon.

Bleeding hell, that was not a pleasant experience.

Back home and feeling numb due to the anaesthetic. Not able to eat anything, and getting hungry now.