40 vehicles set on fire in North Bristol last night

[hairy v]

[Prizam]

Reads like a very bad, and late April fools.

Fuel tanks exploding...

[105.4]

It would be interesting to know what types of vehicles were set ablaze.

[Pit Pony]

Nice of whoever it was, to set on fire the transport of night shift workers at a Factory that mainly makes jet engines for the defence industry. You know the working classes. Those that have jobs and work hard on a Saturday night.....

bds.

[bitchstewie]

Looks like there's cars set on fire on the streets on some residential roads too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-6097...

[mwstewart]

Bloody hell. There are some nice parts of Bristol, but for whatever reason it does seem to attract a high number of anarchists.

[Red9zero]

mwstewart said:

Bloody hell. There are some nice parts of Bristol, but for whatever reason it does seem to attract a high number of anarchists.

They set light to a few high end cars in our village a couple of years ago. It's bad enough targeting the cars, but when they are parked in a residential driveway it's pretty fking stupid. Same group did the Police shooting range building at Portishead too.

[dundarach]

As above!

[anonymous-user]

This happened in South Gloucestershire rather than Bristol although the two areas are contiguous urban sprawl. Might have been general arson or anti social behaviour rather than organised anarchic protests though.

[egor110]

Newarch said:

This happened in South Gloucestershire rather than Bristol although the two areas are contiguous urban sprawl. Might have been general arson or anti social behaviour rather than organised anarchic protests though.

Isn't Bradley stoke rough as fk anyway ?

[bitchstewie]

I think Bristol is one of those places where because of the statues and "kill the bill" and other stuff you see it and it's easy to leap to assuming it's something like that rather than just a vanilla criminal scumbag.

[Vanden Saab]

Council and police encourage law breaking on a monumental scale and jurors aquit the law breakers and then are surprised that crap like this happens.

[mwstewart]

bhstewie said:

I think Bristol is one of those places where because of the statues and "kill the bill" and other stuff you see it and it's easy to leap to assuming it's something like that rather than just a vanilla criminal scumbag.

40 cars is a lot - my thinking is that it is organised rather than a scumbag causing wanton damage. It seems like too many cars, and too much time for someone working alone, and if not, what would be the common cause? It would be possible with one person if they were placing remotely operated incendiary devices, but that seems far fetched.

Normally criminals work for gain, and there's none here that I can see - unless they work for the insurance company

[anonymous-user]

Vanden Saab said:

Council and police encourage law breaking on a monumental scale and jurors aquit the law breakers and then are surprised that crap like this happens.

But this isn’t in Bristol, iirc it’s a different administrative area, albeit within Avon and Somerset police’s patch.

Edit I do agree that this is some sort of organised or planned protest rather than random vandalism

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 3rd April 10:33

[bitchstewie]

mwstewart said:

40 cars is a lot - my thinking is that it is organised rather than a scumbag causing wanton damage. It seems like too many cars, and too much time for someone working alone, and if not, what would be the common cause? It would be possible with one person if they were placing remotely operated incendiary devices, but that seems far fetched.

Normally criminals work for gain, and there's none here that I can see - unless they work for the insurance company

Oh absolutely it could be that I'm just saying there's something about that area where it seems easy to make the leap to some sort of organised thing v "just" criminality.

Either way they need catching and locking up.

[Red9zero]

Newarch said:

Vanden Saab said:

Council and police encourage law breaking on a monumental scale and jurors aquit the law breakers and then are surprised that crap like this happens.

But this isn’t in Bristol, iirc it’s a different administrative area, albeit within Avon and Somerset police’s patch.

Edit I do agree that this is some sort of organised or planned protest rather than random vandalism

Edited by Newarch on Sunday 3rd April 10:33

It's as near as dammit. We are in North Somerset and Bristol Anarchists targeted our village. Portishead is too, where they burnt down the Police shooting range building while it was still being built.

[originals]

Red9zero said:

They set light to a few high end cars in our village a couple of years ago. It's bad enough targeting the cars, but when they are parked in a residential driveway it's pretty fking stupid. Same group did the Police shooting range building at Portishead too.

How do you know it's the same people?

[Deltic]

egor110 said:

Isn't Bradley stoke rough as fk anyway ?

Nah, you're thinking of Patchway, Bradley Stoke became memorable for one thing and that was 25 odd years ago when the property market crashed and it became known as Sadly Broke with lots of stories of people just handing keys back because the house prices had crashed and they couldn't move or sell
These days it's an ok place to live, not perfect but alright

[Red9zero]

originals said:

Red9zero said:

They set light to a few high end cars in our village a couple of years ago. It's bad enough targeting the cars, but when they are parked in a residential driveway it's pretty fking stupid. Same group did the Police shooting range building at Portishead too.

How do you know it's the same people?

You snipped the post I was replying to saying Bristol attracts anarchists. That number of cars in one go is hardly likely to be vandals. You would assume it is a protest of some kind. This is Bristol(ish) after all.

[bristolbaron]

Deltic said:

Nah, you're thinking of Patchway, Bradley Stoke became memorable for one thing and that was 25 odd years ago when the property market crashed and it became known as Sadly Broke with lots of stories of people just handing keys back because the house prices had crashed and they couldn't move or sell
These days it's an ok place to live, not perfect but alright

‘Alright’ is about as far as you can stretch Bradley Stoke, mundane, boring, alright. Whilst there’s nothing wrong with the stokes - Bradley, Little, Harry and Stoke Gifford there’s nothing special about any of it. Certainly not rough though!