Website hunts UK rioters
By Techgirl

More than 16,000 British police are on the streets to stop the rioting that has hit the country.  At least 2 people are dead, and property worth tens of millions damaged or looted.  This morning BBC broadcast an interview with a 6 year old Indian origin girl who said “she was scared she was going to die” when the rioters attacked the place she was with her family.

Even as the sociologists will work out why some otherwise law abiding youngsters turned into terrifying rioters for a few days, there is a hard core criminal element stealing everything they can lay their hands on.  This YouTube video shows an injured young man first being helped and then stolen from by rioters not much older than him.

A British website zavilia.com has been set up to ‘identify the rioters in the images on their site by submitting a report.’ When a rioter is positively identified by several people, their information will be passed to police. All information submitted will be kept confidential, and will be used solely to identify rioters.

What a good idea!  Perhaps, someone in India can do the same for riots in our cities.

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.