# No-one pitted the fuckers burning London down yet?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 8, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-pitted-the-fuckers-burning-london-down-yet/591998 "2011-08-08T21:56:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-pitted-the-fuckers-burning-london-down-yet/591998/323 "2011-08-13T22:22:06Z")

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> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#):
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> 1. It’s not justified. No-one has said it is.
> 2. It’s just a symptom of an underlying problem.
> 3. If we want to fix that problem, than understanding just what is causing it is a good starting point.
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> You want to stop this shit happening again? Well, carrot and stick time. Give people something to aim at that will see them rewarded. Encourage greater sense of society by funding local sports, youth facilities, training courses, yadda. Carrot.
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> Stick - identify wherever possible anyone involved in these riots, and punish them as fully as the law allows. Though I doubt we’ve actually got enough jail space left for that number of people, so we’ll have to do something creative on that front. Couple of years of compulsory peacecorp style work in Somalia building infrastructure/irrigation/essential facilities? The average cost of jailing someone in Britain is around £26,000 per annum. I reckon you could spend a fraction of that feeding someone in a remote part of the sahara, and the rest on building materials for them to use. And yes, that is just me being daft, but I really would think that there’s got to be something more productive you could do with £130,000 than the equivalent of a 5 year stretch on the naughty step to think about what they did wrong.

**GARYKumquat**

In a thread in the Pit some time ago ,I didn’t wish to reveal a persons name (who had been killed in an accident , **Gary** said that if I.M.d him with the name then he wouldn’t reveal it and carry on the debate.

I didn’t want to reveal the name because it would have caused a lot of hurt to the family of the deceased.

**GARY KUMQUAT** then I.M.d me to say that if I mentioned the person involved then he would post it.

This even though, he’d given his word that he wouldn’t.

Sorry, but he’s a particulary loathsome piece of filth, and anything he says is a none starter.

You are a pathetic , lieing little coward, a cocksucking little nobody .

Of course if this upsets you then feel free to I.M. me to meet up .  
But you g/f tells me that you won’t turn up.

You have got to be the biggest coward, and liar that I have ever come across.

You really are filth.

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