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    Two stabbings at Notting Hill Carnival as 400 arrested in total
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    Two stabbings at Notting Hill Carnival as 400 arrested in total

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    1. EvilTaffyapple on

      Is it really worth the hassle? All we ever hear about it is a massive amount of arrests and some stabbing. Why is it allowed to take place?

    3. wildingflow on

      Two stabbings out of ~2 million revellers?

      SHUT IF DOWN NOW! ITS A BLOODBATH! THEY’RE OUT OF CONTROL!!!!

    5. Sensitive_Echo5058 on

      It’s time to make this a ticketed event and locate it somewhere more appropriate, like the Pride route via Regent’s Street and Trafalgar Square.

      There are too many stabbings each year, too many deaths, to just ignore the problem and pretend it doesn’t exist every year.

      By all means, don’t end the celebrations, but enough is enough – it can’t go on in its current form.

    6. Dapper_Big_783 on

      Move the thing into a stadium with pay to enter and use the money to have a private security. Stop wasting police time, resources and tax payers money.

    8. Droch-asal on

      Some of those arrests are for nothing, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They tell you to get in the transit, take you to a station book you, then let you go next morning with no criminal record. The Met needs to publish figures, the arrests show that they’re doing their job.

    10. dredbase on

      I havnt been for many years, but decided to pop along for a couple of hours with my 11 year old daughter. Took in a few sound systems, ate some jerk, walked along the parade route and bounced before it got too busy. She loved it, as did I. You can’t move it to another location, it would destroy all that makes it interesting, i.e all the systems down little side streets etc. we are blessed to have an event like this in our city, it’s totally unique.

    11. Astriania on

      Two is actually a really low number and would indicate a significant policing success.

    12. hudibrastic on

      This is worse than the Cordão da Bola Preta, the largest Rio street carnival

      Who is saying it is normal because of the number of people attending already lost their mind

    14. JerachoD on

      Time to ban this night mare. The residents hate it it’s just in the too difficult tray for the mayor to make the right decision.

    15. Rumthiefno1 on

      I don’t think it should be banned myself.

      Obviously I’m one person, I’m not going to see everything that goes on, but to me it seemed like a really good carnival today, that unfortunately had some bad things happen to some people. I did see an arrest, but i don’t think it should be banned.

    16. AFulhamImmigrant on

      I just don’t know why it isn’t banned. This doesn’t happen anywhere else on this scale.

      When people say London is broken, this may the only thing where they have a point.

    17. dozzer85 on

      If they were all waving union jacks and 400 people got arrested and there were multiple stabbings and all the shops had to install metal cages Reddit would be in an uproar calling for it all to be banned and that everyone was a nazi fascist.

    18. throwaway593090 on

      Let’s see the crime in Glastonbury! Or the Reading and Leeds festivals which are known to be insane.

    19. Unable_Concern5437 on

      It should be banned. The amount of rubbish they leave behind is unreal. Hours of police time wasted .

    20. NotMyFirstChoice675 on

      Have just come back from carnival. The most dangerous thing experienced is the 50,000 steps I’ve done – feet are throbbing