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Shit.
Tube system shut down following blasts: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703777.stm
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50 pence (iN Da Pod)
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
World Record Holders
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
Living in the USA
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
Underground : USA
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
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The human league (of friends)Because everything counts
It's only a TV programme
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Chicago, Improvised
Superstar Power
Minding the Gap
Lift is a mystery
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It strikes me that several people are playing a very sick joke.
I really don’t think it’s something to be worried about.
I think it’s just someone out to prove it can be done… I also think they just earned themselves a stay in an HMP Hotel…
I agree with Chris – it is probably a stunt or a joke, but I think we SHOULD worry, because this s**t keeps happening. 2 incidents in as many weeks is not good!
Let’s stay calm until we know what’s going on.
Yeah, no-one hurt, no real damage done.
This is more of an annoyance than a threat.
At least one arrest’s been made.
Considering how quickly someone’s been caught, it suggests that they probably didn’t know what they were doing, and rules out organised terrorism.
Apparently, one man escaped from Warren Street, probably after his device failed to go off properly, and ran into the UC Hospital! Staff were asked to look out for a man with wires sticking out of his top (!!) and armed police ran into the building shortly afterwards!
This doesn’t seem to be of the scale of two weeks ago, as far as I can tell at the moment.
It’s probably “The Sun” testing the attitudes of staff and police on tube trains so shortly after such a disaster. (a la breaking into Buck Palace, going to Harry’s military training camp with a fake bomb….)
I can see the headline now with some proudly grinning chumps on the front going “look what we did”
Seriously though, I hope this is a completely seperate incident and that no-one was hurt.
Maybe people should their mouths shut until they know what’s going on, eh? This was very serious.
That’s a bit harsh, I think. Based on what we knew at the time, the idea of it being a prank seemed the most likely explanation. Are you suggesting that in the heat of the moment, people should keep to themselves and worry about what the hell’s going on?
At the end of the day, any bomb attack is serious. Luckily, today’s copycat attack was performed by people who didn’t know what they were doing. Given the significant forensic evidence, it won’t be too long before they’re caught.
Yes, we had a lucky escape. But I maintain it’s really not something to be worried about.
Reports of police shooting suspected suicide bomber at Stockwell station.
This sums up the mood quite nicely today I think…
http://www.trysomethingoriginal.co.uk/