Car bomb in Central London
 

This could have been total carnage.

http://www.channel4.com/news/article...+london/581997

Fucking scary.
Strange that the guy did not care much of going unnoticed, and even stranger the fact that he ran away leaving the lights on and the car "parked" in such a noticeably unordinary state... drunken terrorist???

I work 3 mins from where the bomb was found. Thank god it was found and defused.

It makes things a bit worrying again because I commute through the city every morning. Oh well.

Heavy, aint it?

Ugh.

is that because the driver was drunk?

RASCISTS!(?)

ming!

Is it definitely a failed terrorist attack?

Or was it just someone abandoning a dodgy motor full of building materials?

If it was a terrorist, why was he seen trying to remove the gas cannisters from the car?

I wouldn't panic just yet.

No. It's because he fucked it up! :) (bad joke)

Racist.

Anyway, who knows? I think most people in London wouldn't panic even if the bomb had gone off. It was definitely a bomb, but it looks more like the work of some loner, a bit like the one who bombed Brixton, the gay pub in Soho and Brick Lane a few years ago.

It looks like Scotland Yard didn't even see it coming. They should be thankful that passers-by noticed something suspicious about the car.

Its a good thing they have cameras on every street corner in England watching your every movement to stop this kind of thing!

Oh wait, the cameras did nothing to stop this.

Nefeli, thats a couple of blocks or so from where You, Me, Jenn and Naomi stayed in 2004 before ATP isn't it?

Was there a Holiday Inn full of SY boardies?

DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF SCOTLAND YARD:

"guys we have a problem"

*sounds of whispered confusion*

"this bloke left behind an empty bottle of single-malt and a sticky copy of Blarney Babes. there's like 6 different kinds of Sharia violations right there. I hate to say it, but we aren't dealing with muslims any longer. that can only mean one thing: it was..........THE IRISH"

*cue spooky music*

well they shutdown the road near Buckingham, no surprises there


sort of, we stayed there the day before ATP 04, and Toilet was nice enough to take us out to see Saccharine Trust that night

[quote=sarramkrop]Racist.

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Now now. No need for name calling! :)

I see the irony was lost on you.;)

I'm just as bigotophobic as the next person

He must have been in a good mood at that time. I hear that he takes innocent groups of Nirvana fans to see Madame Butterfly, when he's having a bad day.

[quote=Florya]
The irony was lost on you too. I know that you're not racist, just slightly xenophobic.:)

well there were 4 bands before Saccharine Trust, and only The Battys and French Toast were good, the other two bored Naomi to sleep, i am suprised we all last through those weird bar bands

We've just heard at work that allegedly a 2nd car bomb has been found on Park Lane - Reuters are also reporting this. I'm hoping that this news is nothing more than a very cautious check on vehicles.

the spitz

I heard about that earlier. I hope that it isn't true because it also means that they're gonna shut down most tube lines and close off many areas, which generally means that getting anywhere will mean facing utter chaos.

This says something about news in America, that I heard about this here first. Granted it's on the front of CNN.com now, but I'd already cruised through Yahoo to get my e-mail (it's not even in the news headlines on their front page!) without noticing it, and I saw nothing at all anywhere last night when it would have been happening.

The bomb was outside a branch of Tiger Tiger for heavens sake. They should have let it go off and done everyone a favour. The average IQ of Londoners probably would have shot up a few points.

Now that I thought about it again, that would be just like any other day commuting in London.

Ooerr, I'm gonna bring me bullet proof vest and crash helmet down for our tour!! :( Luckily I live in Leeds, where all the terrorists come from, so (touch wood) we're relatively safe.

too true.

Melly, Now you be safe, I don't want to hear about you in the tube.

horrible shit to hear about this today, i remember July 2005 when a freind of a friend was killed. You have to realise that intelligence and the like is the most important thing in preventing these things, so thank the god i dont believe in that this was averted.

I nicked a crate of beer from a Tiger Tiger once, and i have to say a gang of geordie bouncers is more scary than instant death anyday

Synth, I got back home safe and sound.

the ikara cult - LOL at the beer-nicking incident. Also scary are the waiters at Wong Kei, when all of your friends have done a runner and you don't have enough cash to pay the bill.

It was BREAKING NEWS this morning on CNN. I saw it while I was getting ready for work, at approx. 4:30 AM local time.

They were saying something about being near a theater district, and I seemed to remember someone from the board worked for or in a theater. This might be a figment of my imagination though.

^^^^You're not wrong in that it was in the middle of the West End, and near a few theatres. Mind you, if you think it's a bohemian district where everyone watches plays and spends their time in coffee houses drinking absinthe and discussing Rimbaud and Brecht, well, unfortunately that's not the case :(

My sister was praising M15 earlier for stopping this. I couldn't even think of what to say to her.

But woo, London lives another day.

How about "Damn Londoners, think they're so clever with their Parliament and everything. I'll show them. Show them all!!!"?

Are you saying I did this?

Sure, blame the catholics again..

No, I'm not saying you did it, just that you don't like London a great deal. Of course, I don't want to comment on rumours of sighting of a man in the same area, running off with a Fender Jazzmaster shouting, "So what about the Beatles, eh? They weren't from London!".

Oh, it can't have been me, I don't listen to The Beatles. Nor do I promote them.