nick300zx

O well im sure it will all stop in the next couple of years when a lambo doing 70mph hits a small child chasing after a ball that's bounced in to the road from behind a parked car, if its a 30 do 30 not 70!

lower

I don't think the child's colour had anything to do with it. A lot of people in London are not white.

However, the bloke was clearly a cantankerous old bugger who totally over reacted to what appeared to be a child's innocent mistake.

lovegroova

And given the suggested responses given in Blue Monster's thread here: (which were pretty much "tell anyone who complains about the noise from your car to eff off") I'm not surprised the residents wouldn't want to talk to these people.

This was a good quote: "I've heard they have complained but they haven't complained to me, if they complained to me I'd try to do something about it" So, you know what you do upsets people but you continue to do it anyway.

It's little to do with racism and everything to do with behaviour. Oil-rich Arabs (probably these lads' parents) have been visiting London for decades with no similar problems. I'm sure the residents wouldn't mind the Arab tourists one bit if they didn't bring their noisy cars with them.

RattyS2k

It reminds of a few years back when I used to go to Chelsea Bridge on a Friday night. You used to get a few hundred bikers down there watching a few guys doing stunts up and down the road. As there were no houses or flats down there the police turned a blind eye to it knowing it was all in one area. Then a block of flats was built by the bridge and one Friday night as soon as people had moved in one guy came out ranting and raving about the noise.

Following week went down there to find no bikers, but about 30 coppers stopping everyone on a bike and telling them the Friday night shenanigans were over. The coppers then had a look over the bikes and quietly told us to change the loud cans and small number plates back to standard. No one really complained as we knew it had now become a nuisance to the residents but given that the cheapest flats were £1 mill plus someone must have been well connected to get it stopped so quickly. Money talks.

blue monster

I'm with Ron on his above comment, a well organised free event would draw massive crowds, everyone involved would love it and very importantly would keep the residents happy whether they were toffs or not as someone else has posted earlier in this thread - not everyone in Kensington is a toff or rich.

I also agree with GarethB in the fact that the programme was badly put together, almost X-factor like, and I'm not suggesting for a minute that an elderly lady should attempt to approach these guys as that is probably not the best thing to do.

GarethB

I'd have done the same - the kids spacial awareness was shocking. Imagine him in a car a few years from now!
But then again, I'm a cantankerous old fecker myself. Although the colour of the kid wouldn't have mattered to me.

gaddafi

I've only seen the first 20 minutes then my laptop shut down

That kid with the umbrella needed a kick up his (black) arse - I couldn't believe he tried to walk through the gap

Use of parentheses to show that the word 'black' is not relevant - any more than the shouting was racially motivated

Apart from that, the style and speed of driving looked wholly inappropriate for the roads, irrespective of concerns about noise, etc

Will have to watch the rest later

martin j

A programme designed to create discussion/argument? it has done here, pretty poor and I soon found it boring TBH, someone needs to set up a moneymaking trackday for these guys, unless of course they can only drive in straight lines for for a few seconds.
The young fella with the umbrella should never get a driving licence, he'd never get the car down a street with that spacial awareness.
A few speedhumps similar to ones built near me would sort them out no problem.

RattyS2k

Then there will be more you tube clips of lambo's and speed humps lol

GarethB

Lambo's what?