Docklands24 - Pennington Street Video

This link will take you to a compilation of various Mango's-related incidents in Pennington Street over the past few months.

Infernal din...

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Has anyone gone to the safer neighbourhood police briefings? This problem is much more than a nuisance now. Here are the next ones:

14/03/2009 - 16:00 - 16:30 - Street Briefing - Waitrose - Thomas Moore Square E1

14/03/2009 - 16:30 - 17:00 - Street Briefing - Wapping Lane E1 - By the Green

14/03/2009 - 17:00 - 17:30 - Street Briefing - St.George's Town Hall - Cable Street E1

The Docklands24

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I don't want to hear your car stereo at 04:00 am is grateful to John Hyde, journalist at Docklands24 for his interest in our ongoing noise and anti-social behaviour problem. An article on our problems in and around Pennington Street will appear in the Docklands24 of 24 February.

In the article concerning the Cable Street clubs, above, the remarks made by the council spokesman seem very relevant to our situation:

'The continued operation of late night clubs and bars in this area, so close to residential occupiers, was not desirable and should be located in a town centre. Residents had been subject to noise and anti-social behaviour as a result of the unauthorised clubs and the benefits of allowing the clubs to operate did not outweigh the residential amenity concerns.'

Frantic Friday

I was woken at 1.20 with men shouting at the top of their voice at each other and having a brawl. Unfortunatley this was just out of view of my window, I have most of the shouting on the video though. Girls were shrieking at the top of their voice to try and stop the fight. One girl got caught by a punch. This was ongoing with the men being broken up by their friends, the police eventually arrived in a police van. Someone was taken off by an ambulance. The rest of the people were loitering around the street shouting and waking the residents.

The girl who had a punch thrown at her, drunk off her face, another male and a girl walked straight past me as I was filming and started hurling abuse at me. The girl who had the punch thrown at her said "Oy what the fuck are you doing, Guess what fuck you" and stuck her finger up at me. Great footage!! The drunk girl then went to the other side of the road, sat down and started crying. Another ambulance then pulled up and took her in. She was in there for about half an hour. She seemed pretty fine when she was throwing abuse at me! What a waste of the paramedics' time and taxpayer money.

Her friends (about 6 of them loitered around while the ambulance was there) being antisocial. When the ambulance left the girl was given a red blanket by the paramedic. She then started hurling abuse at her friends and punched one of the males in the face. One of the residents above my flat shouted down at the group to tell them to leave however one of the men shouted back "Fuckin' come down here, innit". They then walked off back towards Mango's front door.

At the same time as this two men were also having a verbal fight with one of the men (guy in white top) trying to start a fight with another friend.

My camera ran out of battery but from 3am until 3.30am a group of men were chanting Bhangra songs at the top of their voices and clapping their hands. Unfortunately I didn't get any of this on camera. I finally got to sleep at 4am.

What a load of rubbish...

This is what Pennington Street looks like on a Sunday morning.