Tale of Craddick - Meet London 2013

Everyone thought the economy was on the up. It was at the end of 2009 but those great people in banking had other ideas. Unfortunately, even with a global financial scare, they still managed to screw it up again. Some said that they were greedy, others said that everyone had just become to precious about their money but either way you look at it, you cannot get away from the fact that on May 18th 2011 a massive crash hit the globe again...this one would be devastating. It was just simply known as 'The Crash' and it broke up everything. Funny thing though, is that everyone thought it would be the 8000 or so nukes that would eventually end the world. Who knew that money would cause the 'Riots of July' or the public hangings of bankers that began in the early months of 2012. The poor bastards had no chance. You see there just wasn't any cash around...which meant there were no more cops or law abiding security. To be fair, the police were urged to stay open and running with the only payment being 'the knowledge that you are doing good', it worked for a few months but after the murder count of cops went up to around 45 they just could not manipulate them into staying any longer. It wasn't TOTAL chaos in the streets though, people still had there morals and there was still trade amongst the people, they still wanted the things that things that they had become dependant on. Things were still getting made and items still had value. A bottle of Jack Daniels would get you about 1 hour of protection from a decent bodyguard or enough vegetables to last you a week. You could almost say that towns had become 'Western'...not completely lawless but tough enough that you had to have your wits turned to full alert at all times. London had become a giant Dodge City with a lot more hookers and drugs. Hookers and drugs flourished without the presence of police, in fact a lot of police moved into that line of business because they knew how things ran. Unfortunately the real thugs didn't really like the idea and there are only a few policemen in the business, or at least, only a few that would admit it.


Tale of Craddick - will continue.