Gloucester Lock 2 - potential riots

[robtheplod]

Notice Alert

Location: Llanthony to Gloucester Lock, Gloucester & Sharpness Canal

 

Intersection of:

Bridge 22, Hempsted Road Swing Bridge to Victoria Basin Swing Bridge on Gloucester & Sharpness Canal

and

Lock 2 Gloucester Lock to Lock 2 Gloucester Lock on River Severn Navigation

Wednesday 7 August 2024 15:30 until further notice

Type: Navigation Closure
Reason: Police Incident

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Original message:

The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal and National Waterways Museum in Gloucester are closed with immediate effect due to the potential for riots in the area.

This decision has been made to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all our people.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and provide updates as soon as it is safe to reopen.

You are welcome to contact us at enquiries.walessouthwest@canalrivertrust.org.uk if you would like to discuss this information with a member of our Customer Service Team.

You can view this notice and its map online here:
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/29152/llanthony-to-gloucester-lock-gloucester-and-sharpness-canal

You can find all notices at the url below:
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices

[Mike Hurley]

CMers being moved on, potential riot?

[MtB]

Rioting would be the obvious response nowadays to CRT adding a small CC surcharge to the licence fee.

What's a "potential riot" anyway? Has anyone ever seen one or taken part in a potential riot? Sounds a lot safer than an actual riot! 

[Ex Brummie]

It's raining now, so all will be quiet.

[Mac of Cygnet]

So were there riots?  Almost everywhere else the anti-rioters vastly outnumbered the potential rioters.

[Tonka]

2 minutes ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

So were there riots?  Almost everywhere else the anti-rioters vastly outnumbered the potential rioters.

What is the difference between rioters and anti-rioters

[haggis]

9 minutes ago, Tonka said:

What is the difference between rioters and anti-rioters

Anti rioters tend to be peaceful while rioters seem to be intent on smashing things - and people. 

[Mad Harold]

1 hour ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

So were there riots?  Almost everywhere else the anti-rioters vastly outnumbered the potential rioters.

I think it was the rather stiff custodial sentences handed out that rather dampened the knucklehead's enthusiasm for trouble.

[MarineHeatingSolutions]

Welcome to the forum. I don't feed the trolls as a rule, but I'll pull up a chair and wait for someone else to come along and entertain that pile of nonsense. I must have missed the 'Triple Stabbing and Burning Fleet' headline on the evening news!

[Mac of Cygnet]

I've reported the post as a malicious fabrication.

[nicknorman]

There were no riots in Gloucester around the time specified. It seems sad to have to lie through one’s teeth to seek attention. Maybe get a dog instead?

[Tonka]

2 minutes ago, nicknorman said:

There were no riots in Gloucester around the time specified. It seems sad to have to lie through one’s teeth to seek attention. Maybe get a dog instead?

Please don't be cruel to a dog

[IanM]

I thought new member posts had to be approved by a moderator so obviously someone on the site team thinks it's true.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

The post has been hidden. Can't find any basis in fact for some of the inflammatory allegations in it. 

[David Mack]

From The BBC on 11 August 2024:

"For more than 24 hours on Wednesday there was speculation and rumours on social media of possible protests and disorder in Gloucester and Cheltenham.

Police officers were deployed, shops and businesses closed early, some pubs decided not to open and the producers of a theatre show cancelled it over safety fears.

In the end, there was nothing apart from the real world consequences of misinformation being spread widely online, with police saying the information it received was "third-hand rumour".

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqv87r4zdo

 

[1st ade]

54 minutes ago, IanM said:

I thought new member posts had to be approved by a moderator so obviously someone on the site team thinks it's true.

It's not (in general) the job of the Mods to verify the authenticity of a post. With some of the technical posts (for example LI batteries....) we'd never approve anything.

 

Instead, we (I'm one as well) rely on a casual glance "does it promote illegal activity?", "does it contain [banned!] swear words?", "is it obviously Spam?" etc.

 

In this case, we goofed; sorry, we are not perfect...

[MtB]

2 hours ago, nicknorman said:

There were no riots in Gloucester around the time specified. It seems sad to have to lie through one’s teeth to seek attention. Maybe get a dog instead?

 

Wasn't the original report about "potential riots" though? I'm still not sure what one of those is. I might even have been involved in one without realising.

 

I missed the deleted post though. What did it say?

 

[IanM]

4 minutes ago, MtB said:

I missed the deleted post though. What did it say?

 

Just some rubbish about people running for their lives, boats burned to the waterline, mass looting, etc, etc. 

[Tony Brooks]

24 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Wasn't the original report about "potential riots" though? I'm still not sure what one of those is. I might even have been involved in one without realising.

 

I missed the deleted post though. What did it say?

 

 

It was an apparently fictional and graphic description of the supposed riot and the damage done written in the first person. If it had happened as described it would have been all over the news at the time, it was not, enough said.

 

Also, no need for apologies from Ade or any mod for letting it slip through. They do a pretty fair job for most of the time.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

31 minutes ago, IanM said:

 

Just some rubbish about people running for their lives, boats burned to the waterline, mass looting, etc, etc. 

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

[MtB]

3 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

 

Sounds like dawn on May Day in Oxford! 

 

 

[IanM]

4 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria

 

Who ya gonna call?  

[nicknorman]

7 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

dogs and cats living together

 

If I had noticed that bit I would have immediately realised it was untrue

[IanM]

1 hour ago, nicknorman said:

 

If I had noticed that bit I would have immediately realised it was untrue

It very nearly happened in New York in 1984. 

[Mac of Cygnet]