by simon Lythgoe » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:24 am
surreal riding up the Purley Way this morning at 6am:
4 or 5 Police vans parked along the road and the windows of John Lewis, PC World, and Comet completely smashed in, although it doesn't look like the feckers got inside. Continued carnage through Norbury and Streatham and a few shops done over in Brixton. Shops that got the worst seem to be phone stores, off-licences and bookies.
From a friend who lives just off York Road in Wandsworth and has to walk through the estates to the station:
"The winstanley estate seems to be immaculate. Streets clean. No damage. Apart from all the brand new trainers boxes, phone accessories packaging and panasonic branded cardboard boxes. Who could have smashed up the neighbourhood all night?...There don't seem to be any obvious clues."