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at 18:06 7 Aug 2021
Turns out it was a hoax.
We're a decade down from the 2011 riots, which started when a young black lad didn't survive an encounter with the Police in Tottenham, a couple of miles to the east. The area between Manor House and Seven Sisters running north is clocking up one serious incident every two days at the moment, as there's been a postcode war going on between Tottenham and Edmonton for at least two years. Drill baiting etc. It's quite possible the snakes hoax was a wind-up, as a police presence is definitely thin on the ground: the only ones I know of in the park are twined around ladders in the kids playground. Two nicks watch the hotspots I just mentioned, then Islington to the south, and Colindale/Hendon to the west - which leaves us up at Cockfosters rather exposed, help's at least half an hour away, by which time the proximity of the M25 means the offenders can be almost anywhere. The good flipside is that we don't generate much business for them, obviously, which goes with the comments on Oakleigh Park etc.
In transport terms, most dislike the centre of town, the major hub's Highbury and Islington where the North London Overground connects to the Piccadilly and Victoria Underground, at the middle of a middle circle five miles out from the centre, with an extension to Stratford, the main rail hub to the East, and terminating in both directions at Clapham, to the South and South West. An interchange at New Cross to the South East is also doable. Services to the North East through Finsbury Park are doable, leaving just the Northwest, which are likely to pick up if the Wormwood Scrubs hub ever gets delivered. |
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