'Explosion' on Parsons Green tube train - injuries reported after terrorist incident

[editor]

Doesn't look too natural:

 

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[editor]

And here it is in 'action':



The tube network is festooned with CCTV so I'd be surprised if the cunt who left this soon has a long time at HM's pleasure to contemplate how shit his device was.

 

[editor]

Update:

An explosion that injured a number of people at Parsons Green underground station in west London was a terrorist incident, the Met police have said.

Commuters on a tube train reported hearing a bang and seeing a fireball flying down the carriage during Friday morning rush-hour. Pictures and video, purporting to be from the train carriage, were posted of flames coming out of a carrier bag containing a white bucket.

Police later confirmed the blast came from an improvised explosive device.

London ambulance service said it had taken 18 patients to a number of hospitals. None was thought to be in a serious or life-threatening condition.

Speaking outside New Scotland Yard, Mark Rowley, the assistant Met police commissioner, said: “We now assess that this was a detonation of an improvised explosive device.”

He said most of those injured were believed to have suffered flash burns.

London tube explosion: District line device was homemade bomb, say police

 

[killer b]

Yep, he's tweeted that the people responsible were already within the sights of Scotland Yard, helpfully saving authorities the trouble of having to decide whether publicly releasing that information when the suspects are still at large could jeopardise the investigation.

Well, maybe. Iirc he has form for this, so I'd imagine 'the president of the United States blurting something out on Twitter' is factored in to any intelligence sharing in the immediate aftermath. It might even be part of some kind of strategy...

 

[not-bono-ever]

if he/them had escaped , he may have a plan B that involves something less high tech but equally lethal - hope he/they get nicked before they have any other shitty ideas

 

[editor]

My sympathies go out to the poor fuckers now in hospital with nasty burns, but I had to raise a smile to Sadiq Khan's remark that the security forces are now "working their socks off" to find the culprit.

 

[xenon]

It isn't the ineptness that I think means it shouldn't be categorized as such, more the factors that the usage of the term across the board brings into play. There's some pretty good arguments that one of things using that term does is glorify and partly act as a recruiter for more of the same.

There's argumets to be had about the way terrorism is covered. The endless repeated footage, punditry and rhetoric. But what other than a terrorist act, would you call attempting to set off an IDE on public transport.

 

[Orang Utan]

How were IRA attacks covered by news organisations? I don't recall them using the word as much as they do now, but news coverage wasn't quite as ubiquitous as it is now

 

[SpookyFrank]

My sympathies go out to the poor fuckers now in hospital with nasty burns, but I had to raise a smile to Sadiq Khan's remark that the security forces are now "working their socks off" to find the culprit.

His description of the emergency service response to the Grenfell fire as 'breathtaking' was in catastrophically poor taste IMO.

 

[editor]

His description of the emergency service response to the Grenfell fire as 'breathtaking' was in catastrophically poor taste IMO.

I can't say I find it offensive.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I can't say I find it offensive.

Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.

 

[killer b]

Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.

I've had a quick look, and can't see any outraged reactions online from friends of relatives of the Grenfell dead. Could you link us up?

 

[editor]

Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.

Not playing this ridiculous game.

 

[killer b]

hey frank, it's you people are talking about when they talk about PC gone mad y'know. If people like you didn't drop bullshit like this, they'd have nothing to go on.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

hey frank, it's you people are talking about when they talk about PC gone mad y'know. If people like you didn't drop bullshit like this, they'd have nothing to go on.

It's PC gone suffers with mental health issues now if you please

 

[SpookyFrank]

hey frank, it's you people are talking about when they talk about PC gone mad y'know. If people like you didn't drop bullshit like this, they'd have nothing to go on.

Expecting public figures to show some care over their choice of words in pubic statements has fuck all to do with PC, mad or otherwise.

I don't think Khan was deliberately making a bad joke, I think he just wasn't thinking. In the same way he wasn't thinking, 'shit I'm the mayor of London, maybe I should do something to help these people'.

 

[editor]

Expecting public figures to show some care over their choice of words in pubic statements has fuck all to do with PC, mad or otherwise.

I don't think Khan was deliberately making a bad joke, I think he just wasn't thinking. In the same way he wasn't thinking, 'shit I'm the mayor of London, maybe I should do something to help these people'.

So - apart from you - who actually was offended?

 

[killer b]

So were any friends and relatives of people killed at Grenfell upset by his choice of words? Keep googling, I'm sure you'll find something eventually.

 

[SpookyFrank]

So - apart from you - who actually was offended?

I don't think it was anyone's biggest problem that day if that's what you mean.

 

[Supine]

His description of the emergency service response to the Grenfell fire as 'breathtaking' was in catastrophically poor taste IMO.

You should study a dictionary before getting outraged.

"astonishing or awe-inspiring in quality, so as to take one's breath away."

 

[killer b]

Has google not sorted you out yet Frank? Have you tried searching twitter? There's bound to be some mad cunt on there who took offence to it...

 

[editor]

I don't think it was anyone's biggest problem that day if that's what you mean.

Has any survivors or relatives expressed any outrage, anywhere at his choice of word?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Has google not sorted you out yet Frank? Have you tried searching twitter? There's bound to be some mad cunt on there who took offence to it...

Yeah you've done this bit already.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Has any survivors or relatives expressed any outrage, anywhere at his choice of word?

Yeah you've done this bit already.

 

[SpookyFrank]

You should study a dictionary before getting outraged.

"astonishing or awe-inspiring in quality, so as to take one's breath away."

And there is, famously, only one way of interpreting any word in the English language.

 

[killer b]

Shouldn't you apologise to Editor then?

Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.

this is pretty strong stuff if there's no actual basis in reality.

 

[editor]

Yeah you've done this bit already.

Then why not offer a reply? Or, conversely, admit that you've completely over reacted and looked for offence where clearly none was meant or given to the survivors?

 

[editor]

Shouldn't you apologise to Editor then?

this is pretty strong stuff if there's no actual basis in reality.

Now that was something I found offensive.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Then why not offer a reply? Or, conversely, admit that you've completely over reacted and looked for offence where clearly none was meant or given to the survivors?

I everyone really thinks 'breathtaking' is an appropriate word to use when addressing the loved ones of people who have died from asphyxiation, I'll happily drop it.