London tube explosion: District line device was homemade bomb, say policeAn 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.
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...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.
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.
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.
I can't say I find it offensive.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.
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?Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.
Not playing this ridiculous game.Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.
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.
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.
So - apart from you - who actually was offended?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?
His description of the emergency service response to the Grenfell fire as 'breathtaking' was in catastrophically poor taste IMO.
Has any survivors or relatives expressed any outrage, anywhere at his choice of word?I don't think it was anyone's biggest problem that day if that's what you mean.
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...
Has any survivors or relatives expressed any outrage, anywhere at his choice of word?
You should study a dictionary before getting outraged.
"astonishing or awe-inspiring in quality, so as to take one's breath away."
this is pretty strong stuff if there's no actual basis in reality.Probably none of your mates had died of suffocation in that building though.
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?Yeah you've done this bit already.
Now that was something I found offensive.Shouldn't you apologise to Editor then?
this is pretty strong stuff if there's no actual basis in reality.
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?