Almost everyone knows about what happening in London and other big cities in UK. My opinion, police in UK don’t do their job properly or someone does not let police to do their job. (Possibly stupid laws in England or stupid Euro-tolerance).

Unbelievable, but police decided to employ rubber bullets after3 days (!) of lootings, burnings and vandalism. Police do nothing to protecttheir citizens. I cannot imagine it happen in USA (for instance). Stupid tanagers are throwing stones to police officers, burning down their cars and police stations and police don’t shot idiots back. What is it? This is not police,this is kindergarten!

Do you think it can happen in Switzerland (especially in the German part)?

May 1st....... every year

Teens are putting Zurich on fire? Burning police stations and throwing stones to police officers?

Yes, indeed they are! It's kinda exciting, isn't it!?!?!? I'm watching it live on the Zuri university webcam even as I type this - buildings are burning, stores being looted the length of Bahnhofstrasse, passersby being shot in the face at close range... It's carnage. Absolute mayhem. Smoke climbing high into the air. Just saw a flight of air force F5s let loose a huge stick of napalms along Limmatquai. Navy is maneuvering at Bürklipatz, clearly getting ready to start a bombardment of the zoo. Expecting the mothership high over the city at any time now...

How the police handle this in Zurich? Do they do nothing like in UK?

See above.

Ummm, read the article "they fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons at demonstrators".

Tom

I've just heard on SF2 that the Züri Stapo are about to detonate a tactical nuclear weapon at Paradeplatz, and that we should all close our eyes for a second or two.

I don't know why but this makes me laugh, I imagine kids just playing catch with cops using rocks

funny how a preposition will just change things like that

all that has happened. Well they didn't burn a police station AFAIK but they tried many times and the offices of a private security company were ravaged once. Anybody who leaves an expensive car parked on certain streets in Kreis 4 and Kreis 5 on the 1st May is basically asking to have it torched.

1/ Yes, definitely.

2/ No, never.

3/ Maybes aye, maybes naw.


Just pick the one you want to hear.

I don't think anyone can imagine it happening in their own country until it actually hits.

The "it won't happen here" is probably the naivety that helps it escalate to the levels it has already.

doesnt it happen everytime here when there is a top politician meeting?. not to the extend it is happening right now but...still.

I think the UK rioters actually waited until Cameron got lubed up with his factor 30 and stuck his bum on a sun-lounger on his hols before they kicked off...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ich-riots.html

Tom

And how do the Swiss deal with rioters?

From here

I, for one, find spraying rioters with sh!t not only super effective, but funny as hell as well.

Actually yes, it hard to believe

I had been living in both countries, in the USA and UK, and I noticed right away that USA police look much more professional than UK police in everything: from colors of their cars and uniform to police behavior. (and UK police oficers are unarmed!!!). In US police even have another glance when they look at you.

The other thing: US police will never let some stupid teenagers to throw stones to their officers, they will fire back, and it is only way how to stop disaster like we have in UK now. This is unbelievable! Teens were uncontrollable for years (it was very noticeable), and now police “gather harvest”.
I still cannot believe it can happen in the German speaking country, like Germany, Switzerland or Austria.

In that case I can't help wondering what the death toll would be if this had happened stateside...

Rioters stopped but they've run out of body bags in teenage sizes.

Given the direction the US is headed, I fear we may have the unfortunately privilege of being witnesses to such an event.

Once people start to run out of money and the social safety nets are no longer available... there will be riots.

There's already calls for demonstrations and the organizers is getting heavy support from Egyptians from their experience US Day of Rage 17 September 2011

It won't be long till we see an uprise on the stateside