Ivan wrote:
> ŽiŠardo wrote:
> || Ivan wrote:
> ||| TimB wrote:
> |||| On May 10, 9:40 pm, "Ivan" wrote:
> ||||| ŽiŠardo wrote:
> |||||| Juan Kerr wrote:
> ||||||| On May 10, 6:37 pm, "Cork Soaker"
> ||||||| wrote:
> |||||||| Where there's chavs, their dope. Phone the police telling them
> |||||||| you seen them smoking something "suspicious".
> |||||
> ||||||| Or, of course, phoning 999 and telling them they're chanting
> ||||||| "Allah Akbar" and waving a firearm about.........I can
> ||||||| guarantee you'll get Plod attendance.
> |||||
> |||||| ...or they're drinking whilst sitting in their car which has bald
> |||||| tyres.
> |||||
> ||||| Or tell them that there are some middle class residents standing
> ||||| around with placards and some scruffy looking hippie types up in
> ||||| the trees protesting against a Tesco superstore being built on
> ||||| some school playing fields, I'll guarantee that in next to no
> ||||| time you have a dozen riot vans and more police than you can
> ||||| shake a stick at!
> ||||
> |||| how many police can you shake a stick at before it becomes an
> |||| offence? :-)
> |||
> ||| I remember an actual incident where quite a number of sticks were
> ||| shaken at the police in Bristol, probably at the beginning of the
> ||| trend of selling of school playing fields for development.
> ||| As always when big corporate money is involved the powers that be
> ||| can somehow 'always' manage to instantly muster as many police
> ||| officers as
> ||| is deemed necessary, it was certainly an eye opener for me at the
> ||| time, I'd never seen so many white vans and police dressed in riot
> ||| gear, it
> ||| even made the national news, long forgotten it's hard to find any
> ||| reference to it now, however I did find this.
> |||
> ||| "Dr Wall commented "In 1993 I was an active member of the campaign
> ||| to
> ||| stop Tesco building a new store at Golden Hill, Bristol. Local
> ||| people
> ||| had worked hard to preserve their greenspace in Henleaze, and the
> ||| city council had rejected Tesos planning application. This was
> ||| undemocratically over-turned by then Environment Minister Nicholas
> ||| Ridley."
> |||
> ||||
> |||
> |||
> |||
> || What amuses me is the number of times Tesco's name comes up together
> || with protest groups. If people didn't want to shop in their stores
> || then they wouldn't keep opening them! Even where you have "massive"
> || protests, (something that Bristol could get gold medals for, without
> || ever improving anyone's quality of life) you still get the lemmings
> || spending their money in Tesco from the moment the store is opened.
> ||
> || The undoubted success of the Golden Hill store shows that, for some,
> || it was needed. For the pensioners living on the doorstep, without a
> || car, it was probably a Godsend!
> ||
> || It's so easy - I haven't been in a Tesco store for over five years
> || and never will again. Most of us have that choice.
> ||
>
> I'm 100 per cent with you there, about five years ago Tesco opened one
> of their usual huge ugly tin sheds complete with car park and garage in
> our small town.
>
> During its construction they discovered the foundations of a glass kiln,
> which considering that it was built on the site of an historically
> important 18th century glass works to most people the revelation didn't
> really come as any great surprise.
>
> As a consequence they were then allowed to move the building forward so
> that it now obstructs the view from the high street of the surrounding
> countryside and an ancient picturesque village church.
>
> It was originally agreed that they were going to close at 8.00 PM, which
> suffice to say has now evolved into round the clock shopping, not to
> mention the extra daytime traffic congestion that it is encouraged.
>
> I believe they now also have planning permission for the construction of
> a smaller round the clock convenience store less than a mile away from
> the main one, which again has caused a great deal of controversy with
> the local residents.
>
> Needless to say that just like yourself on principle we've never been
> through their doors since they opened, especially as since their arrival
> a number of long established shops, a garage and a smaller supermarket
> have disappeared from the high street, we still continue to do most of
> our shopping at the local shops and the smaller Sommerfield supermarket,
> or shop in the next larger town if they don't always have what we want.
Nailsea!
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