City fans arrested after Sunderland game :(

[mackenzie]

It isn't the theft itself so much as the effect it has on people who are simply trying to make a living in a small business. People that are probably earning lower than the National Minimum Wage on a 70 hour week.

These kinds of shops are often run by people who spend every minute of their working day trying to earn enough to live on, during unsociable hours that some of us would pale at,and having the thought on a daily basis of someone trying to rob their cash till.

That stinks.

I have a thread on off topic about Thomas Cook at Manchester Fort being robbed on Tuesday .My niece was working there at the time & while not physicaly attacked it left her very nervous frightend & upset so i have sympathy with the shop staff in Sunderland

The fact that one of the staff at the Sunderland shop tried to pull the shutters down etc implies that they have been done before.

Our local off licence has been done a few times and only last week the 62 year old woman that co owns it needed 16 stitches to her head and a day and a half in hospital after three lads decided they wanted a bottle of free whisky and 30 quid from the till.

I would hate to have that kind of fear hanging over me. Whilst I understand no violence was used in Sunderland, the staff were not to know that it wouldn't get to that point.

 

[sir malcom]

Seems to be some curtain twitchers a plenty on here.pmsl,24 pages about 2 lads being charged,for shock horror,shop lifting.ha ha ha,get a life.

 

[conormcfc]

Slow day on bluemoon?

Yes they've committed a crime but fuck me some people on here don't half blow things out of proportion. I know a few of the lads that were there and they're good lads, not trouble causers whatsoever. We all know what it's like when you're bladdered, you do stupid things, we all have. Has no one ever got a parking ticket? Broke the speed limit? Illegally downloaded music? No-ones perfect, to suggest that they should be banned from City is a joke, especially considering that this has fuck all to do with football. I downloaded a film off the internet the other day, should I be banned from visiting cinemas for the next year?

Get a grip.

 

[moomba]

What a lot of football supporters don't realize is that what they see as harmless fun is actually seen by others as highly intimidating and threatening. You don't have to go to that many aways on the train to see examples of that.

I wonder why the shopkeeper closed the shutters in the first place, maybe a few need to think about how they behave toward others in public to find themselves in a position where shopkeepers would rather pass up a sale.

 

[cyberblue]

Seems to be some curtain twitchers a plenty on here.pmsl,24 pages about 2 lads being charged,for shock horror,shop lifting.ha ha ha,get a life.

Iam not behind the door & there is not much i have not got up to following City .but i can Symapise with the shop staff as my Niece was working at Thomas Cook on Wed when i tgot robbed & it was not a pleasent experience

 

[u2fme2]

we all have them

 

[sir malcom]

Seems to be some curtain twitchers a plenty on here.pmsl,24 pages about 2 lads being charged,for shock horror,shop lifting.ha ha ha,get a life.

Iam not behind the door & there is not much i have not got up to following City .but i can Symapise with the shop staff as my Niece was working at Thomas Cook on Wed when i tgot robbed & it was not a pleasent experience

cyber blue where does it say the BLUES that went in the shop were carrying shotguns ffs,its a storm in a tea cup,i think sometimes it could have something to do with where you were brought up that shocks,and myself personaly wont lose any bo bos .after this incident,wheres DIXON OF DOCK GREEN when you need him.

 

[mackenzie]

cyber blue where does it say the BLUES that went in the shop were carrying shotguns ffs,its a storm in a tea cup,i think sometimes it could have something to do with where you were brought up that shocks,and myself personaly wont lose any bo bos .after this incident,wheres DIXON OF DOCK GREEN when you need him.

You weren't on the other side of the counter though.

Do you have any understanding that they may have had a completely different viewpoint than yourself?

 

[raglanblue]

put them on the megabus next time; no chance of that bus letting anybody off;untill it gets back in manchester.

 

[Flixton blue]

Just got to this thread and it's fuckin' depressing. First of all, i'm not one of the "bring back the birch brigade" and i go to plenty of away games and know how things are,but thieving is low down. Plain and simple. The place that got done over was a little corner shop. Lets say the four lads involved each robbed a six pack, that's the best part of £25. That could well be a couple of hours work for the sole trader who owns the place. Bang out of order. I just can't understand how people can defend it as being just a bit of fun and the nobs involved as being good lads who follow city everywhere. So what. I can only assume that those involved are kids or don't work for a living. To steal someone's livelihood is pretty shitty. If they are such "good lads" lets hope they had the decency to feel throughly ashamed come Monday and refund the shopkeeper.