Strange

[louiselux]

Today's disturbing news is: Police shoot man in Tube station. Either they knew he had a bomb on him and was very likely to set it off or-- who knows? The description of how the shooting took place is very disturbing. Armed police in this country don't have a very good track record. I'm thinking about the man who got shot for possession of a table leg.

Comments

[saralotte.livejournal.com]

It's a bit worrying isn't it - personally being surrounded by policeman with huge guns doesn't make me feel any safer.

I was on the district line last night and some idiot left their bag behind. Someone else, feeling jumpy, pulled the alarm. Then a tube worker got on, kicked the offending bag, picked it up and took it away. Not a bomb, then. I expect you have to have a lot of training to do that.

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

I reported an unattended bag at Heathrow once and a member of staff came over and jiggled it. Just - bwuh?

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. You should report that. At the very least he should've asked you all to move to a different carriage, or something.

Still, Virgin trains are not much better. Some guy left his bag in my carriage anf got off thr train and it took at least 45 minutes for the staff to decide to call a security alert. There was much looking at the bag and stroking of chins!

[saralotte.livejournal.com]

It's difficult - one the one hand you don't want to be blown up, on the other we were all quite happy that the situation was resolved so quickly without the need to evacuate the train/ station/ entire tube network. We'd have been less happy had the bag exploded, of course...Perhaps if you work on the tube you get more of an idea what a bomb-in-a-bag might look like, and what an idiot's left-behind bag might look like.