okay, so the London riots were my fault...

[Beki710]

<bg> Had to go emergency prop shopping for our show today. We are leaving tomorrow to travel to Edinburgh to perform for a week. Part of the show (which is about a bank robbery) involves a mask of Kate Middleton (oh yeah the show's a comedy). This morning it got stuck in the props bag, I pulled on it and it being only card it ripped. My Bad. </bg>

The shop where we get the masks from is a party style shop, sells costumes, masks and some pretty hard core rave gear. All the staff out about my age (early 20s) as I entered the shop an older lady was at the desk

Me:
older lady: SC with something stuck up her arse
Nice Shop assistant: AS

SC: I just think it's dreadful everything that's been happening, I mean all that violence! I haven't felt safe! Thank god it doesn't seem to be getting worse! (blah blah blah it went on whilst I was looking at the masks)
I find the right mask and come up to the desk
SC: And this is part of the problem!
Me and AS:
SC: You shouldn't be allowed to stock masks! People can buy them and hide their identity in these riots!
AS: M'am we haven't had any problems here. It's all ending all over the country
SC: They could flare up again! Especially when your selling masks to these type of people! -glares at me-
Me: Excuse me?
SC: Yes you! dressed like that!
(I'm wearing jeans with a dress over the top and a hoody. A hoody which has emblasioned on the back Gilbert and Sullivan Operatic society)
Me: So you are making an accusation that I'm involved in the riots based on what I'm wearing, my age and the fact I'm buying a mask!
SC: It's people like you, that are destroying this country! You have no respect for your elders!
AS: M'am at the moment you are having no respect for my customers I need you to leave my shop
SC: You're probably one of them as well!
AS: Please leave or I'm calling security
SC leaves whilst calling over her shoulder "i'm going to report the both of you!

AS was apologetic whilst she ran up my purchase but it's no my fault. A security guard turned up and apparently she's accused about 5 other people today of being involved. They're trying to track her down and through her out the shopping centre.

Have to say im finding it amusing now but earlier I was so f****** angry at it! I hate people that judge by things like what im wearing. Where I live was not affected by the riots at all, not even suspected planning. I have been very vocal about the riots and how against them I am, to then be accused of it... well...

[XCashier]

A security guard turned up and apparently she's accused about 5 other people today of being involved. They're trying to track her down and through her out the shopping centre.

Could she be charged with slander and making a false report? She needs a good reality check.

Have to say im finding it amusing now but earlier I was so f****** angry at it! I hate people that judge by things like what im wearing. Where I live was not affected by the riots at all, not even suspected planning. I have been very vocal about the riots and how against them I am, to then be accused of it... well...

Naturally, nobody likes to be accused of something they didn't do, especially when it's something they're vehemently against.

I'm glad you're okay, and that the riots are dying down. I don't understand that madness at all.

[Teskeria]

and that the riots are dying down. I don't understand that madness at all.

It's the mob mentality. Get enough people together and their IQ drops below freezing, Celcius at that. People who wouldn't dream of doing that kind of crap normally turn into idiots in a mob. They egg each other on.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Consider the source and try to ignore it. She's nuts, stupid, and simply one of these people who wants to yell at someone, regardless. Why do you care what an idiot thinks?

And didn't you know? Pirates of Penzance was a training film for rioters.

Although our dark career
Sometimes involves the crime of stealing,
We rather think that we're
Not altogether void of feeling.
Although we live by strife,
We're always sorry to begin it,
For what, we ask, is life
Without a touch of Poetry in it?

[Marmalady]

Ooh! Ooh! I remember doing the Pirates of Penzance at my grammar school!

I particularly like the point that the Pirate King made:

'But many a king on a first-class throne,
If he wants to call his crown his own,
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever I do.'

Oh and Beki? Who was she going to report you to? As far as I know it's not illegal to buy a mask in the UK.......

[fireheart]

that lady must have been whacked out on SOMETHING.

[Geek King]

<(I'm wearing jeans with a dress over the top and a hoody. A hoody which has emblasioned on the back Gilbert and Sullivan Operatic society)

I am the very picture of the modern minor rioter!
Conversant in every form of criminal and provocateur,
Burning cars while stealing TVs and furs,
Singing all the while, staying in perfect verse,
When I go about, how all the old biddies curse,

Well, you get the idea.

[thehuckster]

You'd think it was obvious you weren't "one of them" simply by entering the store by opening the door rather than throwing a brick through the window and looting the place.

[Lady_Pigeon]

I am the very picture of the modern minor rioter!
Conversant in every form of criminal and provocateur,
Burning cars while stealing TVs and furs,
Singing all the while, staying in perfect verse,
When I go about, how all the old biddies curse,

Well, you get the idea.

I love you Geek King!

[Food Lady]

I love you Geek King!

I will fight you for him.

[Eisa]

You'd think it was obvious you weren't "one of them" simply by entering the store by opening the door rather than throwing a brick through the window and looting the place.

She can't do that yet, she needs the mask first obviously.

[EricKei]

Get enough people together and their IQ drops below freezing, Celcius at that. People who wouldn't dream of doing that kind of crap normally turn into idiots in a mob.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - Agent Kay, "Men in Black"

[Kogarashi]

I will fight you for him.

Gotta take me on too, then.

[protege]

Lucky bastard

[Pagan]

<bg> Had to go emergency prop shopping for our show today. We are leaving tomorrow to travel to Edinburgh to perform for a week.

You realize that I don't like you now because I'm extremely jealous. You got to go to Fringe. Someday....