Berlin car bomb?

[DaveCinzano]

One dead

 

[DaveCinzano]

At least one dead after 'car bomb' explodes in Berlin

'Car bomb' in Berlin kills driver - BBC News

News from The Associated Press

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Assassination?

 

[editor]

Looks like it was the driver.

 

[editor]

Assassination?

Car looks a bit low rent for your usual target, no?

 

[wiskey]

Lucky not more dead.

 

[Pickman's model]

Car looks a bit low rent for your usual target, no?

it does now

 

[DaveCinzano]

Assassination?

Early reports speculate that this may have been a device which was being transported that prematurely detonated.

 

[Idris2002]

Early reports speculate that this may have been a device which was being transported that prematurely detonated.

If this was a German Airey Neave thing, we would have the identity of the deceased by now.

 

[Pickman's model]

If this was a German Airey Neave thing, we would have the identity of the deceased by now.

not necessarily, it being almost 40 years later and a different country.

 

[Spymaster]

... a German Airey Neave thing ...

Colditz escape?

 

[mauvais]

I don't quite get it. The damage looks really inconsistent.

Berlin blast: man killed in suspected car bomb

Then again I've never blown up my own car so what do I know.

 

[Sirena]

I don't quite get it. The damage looks really inconsistent.

Berlin blast: man killed in suspected car bomb

Then again I've never blown up my own car so what do I know.

A bomb underneath the car, rather than in the car....?

 

[Idris2002]

Colditz escape?

In a home-made glider.

 

[mauvais]

A bomb underneath the car, rather than in the car....?

Maybe, or otherwise stuck to it?

 

[Spymaster]

In a home-made glider.

Would've been nice but unfortunately the glider was never used. Neave walked out in disguise.

 

[Fuchs66]

German police are treating it as a murder! Damage and witness reports are consistent with a bomb concealed under the front of the vehicle with the intention of killing the driver/occupants.

E2A rumours of a link to organised crime.

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Pickman's model]

German police are treating it as a murder! Damage and witness reports are consistent with a bomb concealed under the front of the vehicle with the intention of killing the driver/occupants.

E2A rumours of a link to organised crime.

yeh on the basis that no criminal living a chaotick lifestyle would have been able to do this sort of thing themselves.

 

[Pickman's model]

no shit, sherlock

 

[mauvais]

BREAKING: German police have found suspect devices in multiple other Volkswagen vehicles - sources say approximately '11 million cars' involved

 

[nogojones]

In a home-made glider.

Car takes off?

 

[Casually Red]

. Neave walked out in disguise.

He should have kept it on a while longer .

 

[butchersapron]

Car takes off?

Operation Ogro.

 

[nogojones]

Operation Ogro.

So what's orange and sits on top of the House of Commons roof?

 

[Pickman's model]

So what's orange and sits on top of the House of Commons roof?

airey neave?

 

[butchersapron]

Tommy sheridan. No, hang on.

 

[Casually Red]

So what's orange and sits on top of the House of Commons roof?

????

 

[Pickman's model]

????

quoted for posterity so everyone can see that on at least one occasion you were lost for words.

 

[nogojones]

????

Airey Neaves lunchbox - very old joke and probably funnier when it was newsworthy