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Several days of rioting and looting in London have turned into a temporary boon for the sporting goods business. Figures from Amazon.co.uk show that sales of self-defense items like bats have skyrocketed in recent days.
The Rucanor Aluminium Baseball Bat was at the top of Amazon's "Movers and Shakers in Sports & Leisure" list, showing a 5,149 percent increase.
Paywell's Military Police Telescopic Tonfa also saw a rise of more than 5,000 percent. Some wooden bats were up as much as 3,664 percent.
Other items like tents and headband lamps also benefited during the period of unrest.
Londoners began cleaning up their city after a third night of riots on Tuesday, aided by a Twitter and Facebook campaign which rallied people to the most damaged areas.
Fires broke out across the capital on Monday night as looters smashed up and set ablaze buildings, shops and cars, while violence also broke out in the cities of Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol.
Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament Tuesday and promised to crack down on protesters if the riots continued. "You will feel the full force of the law, he said. "And if you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishments."
Update (1:40 p.m. ET): Amazon.co.uk now lists sales for the Rucanor Aluminium Baseball Bat as being up 6,541 percent.
Originally posted by iamusic
reply to post by -W1LL
Aluminum bats, eh? Well it probably won't kill anyone but it can maim and paralyze a chav...be careful out there people. I say this b/c I have a sneaky feeling that people who are actively participating in the riots and looting are posting on ATS...
Originally posted by Darce
I have heard about football(soccer) and rugby teams planning to band together and form militias to fight back
Originally posted by Mr Tranny
You will see several more innocent civilians dead on the streets by the time the sun comes up tomorrow. And it will get worse from here.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by Mr Tranny
I truly love ATS some days.
usual post: "WE NEED TO ALL RISE UP AND OVERHTORW THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD! SOW ANARCHY! FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
Post after someone sets a car on fire: "THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO REACT WITH MASSIVE BRUTAL FORCE AGAINST ANYONE I THINK NEEDS TO BE KILLED, RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW! STATE POWRER! PROPERTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"edit on 9/8/2011 by TheWalkingFox because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by Mr Tranny
I truly love ATS some days.
usual post: "WE NEED TO ALL RISE UP AND OVERHTORW THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD! SOW ANARCHY! FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
Post after someone sets a car on fire: "THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO REACT WITH MASSIVE BRUTAL FORCE AGAINST ANYONE I THINK NEEDS TO BE KILLED, RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW! STATE POWRER! PROPERTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"edit on 9/8/2011 by TheWalkingFox because: (no reason given)