I've not read the thread but shall now do seeing's as I don't Twitter or FaceBook and this seems to be a trending issue on GetBig and I live in London and I've seen the footage 3x on the BBC and 10x on Sky.
I reckon she was on bad drugs too (a poster who has just deleted his post suggested she was drunk?
yep, she'd just gotten her giro (that's a government payout from the taxpayer, that's you to her, a single Mum, and she's gone and bought her sad child an action man toy. And she bought stuff for herself and got on the public transport.
She was slurring. Noone talks like that, that was dreadful.
I'd like to have seen who sat there and filmed it. Did you notice the black youngster in the background being called away from the scene then hugged by an older white lady? Madness. If I hadn't seen it all before (all day every day in London they're all racist, even the Polish, Somalis and Bangladeshis), I'd have thought that viral vid was a put-on.
I would not have sat there with my iphone or ipad. I would have stood up, picked her child and his brand-new action man toy up and handed them to the person next to me. I would then have maybe punched her in the head or called the guys in the white coats. She needs help. Someone should have done something, not filmed it.
She'll be on crack tomorrow and the day after and doing even worse. The world is going downhill extremely fast.
Linda in London
I went to Croyden once, it's on the way to someplace else, a suburb of London and not a nice place.
She'd probably spent the other half of her weekly allowance on lottery scratchcards as that is her only chance. So then she didn't have enough left to buy food, so she bought a bottle of that illegal vodka that makes you blind.