Notting Hill Carnival

I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to attend this thing.
 
georgenorman said:
I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to attend this thing.
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Can't speak for now but it used to be a great couple of days. Good music and a nice vibe. As previously mentioned the crowds got too much for me and the music changed from nice reggae to overloud nonsense.
 
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Teddy Eagle said:
Can't speak for now but it used to be a great couple of days. Good music and a nice vibe. As previously mentioned the crowds got too much for me and the music changed from nice reggae to overloud nonsense.
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My idea of hell on earth to be honest.
 
Teddy Eagle said:
It's probably a different affair now but 30 years ago it was fun.
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1987 was a nasty violent riot. And i witnessed the buildup. Got out just in time.

from AI below.......

The 1987 Notting Hill Carnival in West London was marred by serious street violence, brick and bottle-throwing clashes with police on Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove, a fatal stabbing over a soft drink, and over 300 injuries across the two-day August bank holiday weekend event. [1, 2]

Key Details of the 1987 Disturbances
    • Timeline: The worst of the rioting and clashes broke out late into the evenings on Sunday, August 30, and Monday, August 31, 1987, as crowds began to disperse near the enforced sound curfew. [1]
    • Casualties & Injuries: Medical personnel treated roughly 346 casualties across both days, with dozens hospitalized—including multiple police officers, one of whom was stabbed in the back. [1, 2]
    • Fatality: A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death on Ledbury Road during a violent dispute sparked by a stolen can of soft drink from a local street stall, prompting a homicide investigation. [1, 2]
    • Police Response: Scotland Yard deployed officers in full riot gear with protective shields and utilized a police helicopter with searchlights to contain roaming groups and ongoing looting of street stalls
 
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PalazioVecchio said:
1987 was a nasty violent riot.

from AI below.......

The 1987 Notting Hill Carnival in West London was marred by serious street violence, brick and bottle-throwing clashes with police on Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove, a fatal stabbing over a soft drink, and over 300 injuries across the two-day August bank holiday weekend event. [1, 2]

Key Details of the 1987 Disturbances
    • Timeline: The worst of the rioting and clashes broke out late into the evenings on Sunday, August 30, and Monday, August 31, 1987, as crowds began to disperse near the enforced sound curfew. [1]
    • Casualties & Injuries: Medical personnel treated roughly 346 casualties across both days, with dozens hospitalized—including multiple police officers, one of whom was stabbed in the back. [1, 2]
    • Fatality: A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death on Ledbury Road during a violent dispute sparked by a stolen can of soft drink from a local street stall, prompting a homicide investigation. [1, 2]
    • Police Response: Scotland Yard deployed officers in full riot gear with protective shields and utilized a police helicopter with searchlights to contain roaming groups and ongoing looting of street stalls
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Not denying there has been a lot of trouble but you could still enjoy football matches when gangs of thugs wanted to batter each other and those involved 30,000 people not over a million.
 
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