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Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters
Posted Aug 8, 2011 at 10:28PM EST by Mabie A.

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The riots currently happening in the streets of London continue to wreak havoc. Unfortunately for Sony, they are once again caught up in the ruckus as they find their DADC (Digital Audio Disc Corporation) destroyed in the wake of the mayhem.

 

 

The DADC facility in Innova Park, Enfield takes care of the manufacturing of Sony's CDs, DVDs, UMDs and Blu-ray discs. Not only is it a plant, but it is also where Sony's high tech research labs are housed. The labs, as it turns out, takes care of research on up and coming optical technology.

 

 

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BBC News later received a call, confirming that looters did start the fire in the facility, but not before they got out carrying their own swag of Sony products in their arms. Some 750 people are reported to be working at the said facility. So far, no one is reported to have been hurt by the said fire. 

 

 

Sony has not released an official statement yet regarding this unfortunate event, but we will be sure to keep you posted. In the meantime, to our readers in London, stay safe!

 

 

 

Via [Razzamataz]

 

 

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+1 # RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — AK-47 2011-08-09 00:16
The sad thing about this is there's a good chance that only about 10% of the rioters care about the cuts and education fee hikes. I would guess that the majority (if not, the vast majority) of the rioters are people who want to cause chaos for the hell of it. :sad:

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-5 # RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — AssassinXCV 2011-08-09 00:56
:lol:

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# RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — UltimaXX 2011-08-09 06:20
Let's see how you'd handle people tearing your city apart?

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# RE: RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — Musev 2011-08-09 13:51
Im in the middle of it all. making no difference to me?

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# RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — UltimaXX 2011-08-09 19:29
So am I, and it's affecting me quite a bit. Without giving my address and whatnot away, let's just say there's nowhere nearby I can go to do, well, anything, no shops open to buy necessities in the evening which is often when you realise you're all out of, say, toilet roll, no fast food places open, kids running rampant outside and you can't go outside with valuables because of the sheer number of muggings taking place...

Didn't know there were many Londoners here, though.

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# RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — Robert 2011-08-09 02:32
Oh snap!

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# RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — -raV- 2011-08-09 03:29
5 finger discount? i guess, 750 o_O thats alot of people... and no one noticed that many people walking down the street lol

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+1 # RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — blkthunda 2011-08-09 09:13
You misread it there buddy. They were the worker.

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# RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — gil 2011-08-09 03:42
that sucks ass!! I hope the workers and the labs at the facility are safe..The labs are very important Sony could have been housing some game changing tech there

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+2 # RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — gil 2011-08-09 03:53
as a matter of fact i hope all victims of this looting are safe

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# RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — noob wrangler 2011-08-09 03:51
damn, glad to hear noone was hurt! i feel really terrible for sony, this has been a rough year for them, maybe they will push out the vita for the holiday to boost year end sales. it really sucks to hear that people claiming to be members of one of the world's most civilized societies running amok destroying property like that. what is the world coming to? the uk used to love sony, what happened?

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# its england — big john 2011-08-09 16:26
can i just say its english people that burned the centre down. dont bring everyone else into this by saying the uk hates sony.

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-5 # RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — NakedFaerie 2011-08-09 05:01
GOOD. I hope the next building they burn down is another $ony place. FUK! $ony

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# Scary Stuff — Ben Amadi 2011-08-09 05:02
Woke up to see it out of my window http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNnTAC6BvQ

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# Consequences to actions — NathJam 2011-08-09 12:23
Of course it only stands to reason now that there will also be a price hike in the area to compensate for the loss of revenue that this will cause and delays in technology production.

There are really some selfish pricks out there: I'm going to get me a free Blu-Ray disc and player by looting the factory. (Fast forward to 1 month later) What do you meant I have to pay $29.99 for a new movie on Blu-Ray, stupid $ony they're the worst taking advantage of all us hard earning folks. Screw them!!

I hope the rest of the city shames those people as much as they did here in Vancouver when they rioted here. Paste the faces and names etc all over the place, there is simply NO reason to act like this in most parts of the democratic world. But, as is always the case it seems, mob mentality will rule over good sense. :sad:

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+1 # RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — Kam 2011-08-09 15:46
what can you say the people are fed up with government bullshit.. i say pick up arms and march to parliment. rioters need to get their words across not by destroying communities and areas, but they need to march to parliment and drag out every prime minister to the street. make them listen. protests dont work. no people want to riot to get their voices across. i say go for it!

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# RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — nnnn 2011-08-10 04:02
Except they don't care about political system they don't have noble intentions like that. People are stupid, even when they're given the right opportunity, all they care about is stupid blu-ray players and televisions. That's why riot and anarchy will never work until it's planned like they did in Egypt.

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# RE: RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — UltimaXX 2011-08-10 20:49
Exactly. I can respect riots with a purpose, but this was just kids going on a rampage taking things they wanted because they wanted it.

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# RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — GRIFFIN XVIII 2011-08-10 22:54
EXACTLY! When I first heard about it I was like "Yes! Finally, people are standing up for themselves!" Then I found out its a bunch of rotten thieves with no real purpose. I was upset haha

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# RE: Sony DADC facility burned down by London rioters — Chris Ambler 2011-08-10 22:47
So, the 'rioters' chose this production plant for optical disks and what, popped into the installed Sony Consumer Gadgets salon that every bloody factory has, and swiped swag? This is beyond any level of verisimilitude. Further, they did a lovely job of pouring their gas canisters full of flammable riot juice OR in a later statement from Tommy Thompson on 5 live, he said they actually had petrol bombs? Does he mean Molitovs, does he know what a petrol bomb is? And, they were bringing MORE petrol bombs/cans OUT after they has set it alight? Tommy is the source for ALL information, including there even being any looters. So, they manage to pour along every isle in that place, look at the video of it. The entire place may be very flammable. If not, why was it burning along the corridor spaces? Did they make the corridor floor out of semtex? So here I sit unable to digest this one. They would have had to drive to this warehouse place, according to the audio only BBC reporter who had gotten there and said "this place is quite remote, it took us some time to get here."

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