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Incident at Parsons Green Tube station
- Thread starter Thunder Bolt
- Start date
smudge
Up the Albion!
Just guessing of course, but seems like a home made IED that hasn't detonated as expected. To my mind, this is not the MO of IS with their penchant for suicide bombers.
One thing is for sure, if I saw that, I would be getting everyone away from it, well away.
One thing is for sure, if I saw that, I would be getting everyone away from it, well away.
Before you do get away, remember to video it on your phone, regardless of any risk to yourself.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Yes, makes you wonder when people do that.
Terrorist bomb but let me film it for social media
Two Professors
Two Mad Professors
Or her.Hopefully,badly burned.
jameswestport
New member
- Sep 7, 2011
- 927
*****
I think you under-estimate the worth of 3 likes and 6 retweets, with an outside chance of "going viral". You can then pin the tweet to the top of your timeline to illustrate how cool you are.
It's genuinely worth risking your life for.
Some tweeter on BBC website says
I'm safe. Just had to run for my life at Parsons Green. Big stamped (sic). Don't know why.
Why ****ing bother to tweet that drivel. Ring your family. People are pricks.
I'm safe. Just had to run for my life at Parsons Green. Big stamped (sic). Don't know why.
Why ****ing bother to tweet that drivel. Ring your family. People are pricks.
Corrected for you
junior
Well-known member
Actually you might jest...
When i did my Royal Engineers Search Course in Northern Ireland we were taught that the person who discovered the device, or got the closest to it, would have to do a sketch and personally hand it over to the ATO (the one that wears the bomb suit) along with as detailed description as possible. This is to assis the ATO as much as possible.
I'm not really sure what they teach these days as my course was pre-smartphone. I suspect it's still a sketch as an unstable device could be triggered accidentally, but whatever the current SOP's, if you discover a suspected device we were taught to take a good look at it and take in as much detail as possible before running away.
If i saw that on the tube, i think I'd probably take a photo. Not to sell to the media or publish online, but to assist any follow-up agency.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
- Thread starter
- #32
Lots of journalists asking for the photo on Twitter, so maybe they think they can make money from it.
That's two people who've made a bomb today, then.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,071
Because it didn't happen unless they show off about it - such is the yoke of social media these days and peoples me me look at me neediness!
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Sure is a lot safer to remove staff from stations and trains
Bob'n'weave
Well-known member
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
- Thread starter
- #37
18 people injured, no-one with life threatening injuries.
reports are that the bomb didn't go off fully and apart from the potential lives this has saved it might also give up a lot of evidence. I would imagine you aren't too bothered about fingerprints and the like if you are making something you expect to explode. Hopefully it'll have a lot for the forensic team to work with.
Withdean11
Well-known member
Don't these trains have CCTV? Shouldn't need a forensic team.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,416
I expect images of culprit to be circling come the end of the weekend
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