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<text id=91TT2084>
<title>
Sep. 23, 1991: World Notes:Britain
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 37
World Notes
BRITAIN
Season of "Hotting"
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<p> On the bleak housing estates of northeastern England, where
unemployment runs as high as 40%, the closing days of summer
produced an outbreak of "hotting"--the teenage sport of
racing stolen cars. Last week, during four nights of
disturbances, one full-scale riot raged for five hours on an
estate in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that is locally known as "the
Bronx." Hundreds of youngsters fire-bombed buildings, wrecked
and looted shops and stoned the police.
</p>
<p> The violence was apparently touched off by the death
earlier this month of two young men who were killed while being
chased by police at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Relatives said
the youths had been taking part in another form of automobile
delinquency, "ram raiding," which involves driving stolen cars
right into stores and then looting them.
</p>
<p> Although this year's violence has been widespread,
involving similar incidents in Oxford, Cardiff and Birmingham,
the Times of London concluded that the worst was over. All would
be well when the weather changed, an editorial predicted,
because "the best policeman of all is rain."
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</body></article>
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