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heard across the office:
co-worker one: oh!! have you seen what just happened! while i was in the kitchen?
co-worker two: no, what?
co-worker one: another wicket! that's eight now!!

'Wicket' clearly = terrorist code for 'bomb'. Make a citizen's arrest on these colleagues of yours now please, Mark.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

University College Hospital is the affiliated hospital

The guy who is head of emergency medicine (or something that makes him responsible for implementing emergency procedures for the whole hospital) is an Irish guy, and so has been on RTE radio a lot in the last couple of weeks, talking about the bombing. He's just been on to say that he has not been beeped with the special alert code that indicates a major incident, so he is not worried.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

More teleworking pls.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I've never not seen xray machines for flights. I just used to be able to wear my shoes through them, is all.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

PA Snap:

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair appealed to Londoners to "stay where you are" in what he described as a "very serious incident".
end

― Alex M (Alex M), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

"This is glib, but to think that people in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and elsewhere deal with this week in week out...
-- Sociah T Azzahole (stevem"

touche - on fri 8th i got a call from my friend ran checking i was ok. i haven't spoken to ran since about september, other than a couple of emails back in april. he lives in tel aviv and i never, ever think to call him when anything happens there (- because he is my friend and i love him therefore it's impossible for anything to happen, presumably - stupid (and arrogant?) thinking as we have all found out), yet as soon as anything happened in london he was calling me up...

― emsk, Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps people just shouldn't be allowed to carry anything onto public transport. We've all got too much crap anyway.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember going through an X-ray in 1973 when I was on a plane that had a bomb scare. (But then again, considering how much happened on that whole trip, small details may have escaped my infant brain.)

All this fuss about airport security began in the early 1970's after a rash of hijackings occurred. Before then, there were no security measures at airports. In 1970 the Air Marshall program began, but was limited by budget and agents flew on only a few international flights. By 1973 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) demanded that all passengers and carry on items be searched. But it wasn't until after September 11th, 2001 that airport security was thrust into the public mindset. Armed with only box cutters they had carried on the plane, 19 terrorists on four planes hijacked those planes. Shortly afterwards, the TSA was formed and Congress demanded all airport screeners be federal employees. Before then, most security at airports was performed by private contractors. There are now more than 48,000 federal airport screeners around the country. All baggage, whether carry-on or checked, must be x-rayed.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

The only slightly reasonable option is sniffer dogs for plastic explosives.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Banning rucksacks = stopping drugs by banning small cellophane wrappings.
-- Martin Skidmore (lonewolf.cu...), July 21st, 2005 1:27 PM. (Martin Skidmore) (later)

= ban australian backpackers?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

not to be glib, but i love how even the bbc describes them as "sniffer dogs." anyway, yeah, otherwise this is pretty disconcerting.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

yes police seem to be upgrading this to a "very serious incident"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

What is the proper term for sniffer dogz?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps people just shouldn't be allowed to carry anything onto public transport. We've all got too much crap anyway.

But we still wouldn't be safe. Someone could just hurl a grenade at a bus or something. You just have to get on with life and hope nothing else happens, and hope the police catch everyone.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

(my source = someone in the office)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

ok a guy on bbc is now describing them as "loud bangs" and not explosions. even corrected himself from saying the latter.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

news conference soon, this should clear things up.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

What is the proper term for sniffer dogz?

Nosehounds.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps people just shouldn't be allowed to carry anything onto public transport. We've all got too much crap anyway.

But we still wouldn't be safe. Someone could just hurl a grenade at a bus or something. You just have to get on with life and hope nothing else happens, and hope the police catch everyone.

I know, I was being glib. Alternatively, we could all go naked?

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Anthrax or something similar crosses my mind. A small explosion would be enough to spread spores far and wide.
*fruitless and hopefully stupid speculation ends, waits for news conference like a sensible person*

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

duder in rymans said nail bomb *had* gone off at warren street.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure that bowling the Aussies for 190 at Lords is a sign of the impending apocolypse.

― Alex M (Alex M), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

No ambulances at Shepherd's Bush, one Fire Engine, lots and lots of police. Evacuated back to the beyond the Central Line. Suggests they think there are unexploded-er-explosives on board.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

London is full of CCTV recently:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0009OU2M8.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Rymans: Staplers AND the truth

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Nail bomb went off at Warren St but they were rubber nails.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

anthrax is an incredibly inefficient way of killing someone (sorry to be grisly). the bio/chem "threat" posed by terrorists always seems to me to be just that: a threat, not really something that anybody who really wanted to kill a buncha people would ever do.

then again they never caught our anthrax letter guy from a few years back, but whatever.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but those are Americans, Kate.

Admittedly the flights I would have been on would be largely to/from London and Dublin, and there's good historical reasons why those would be more secure.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Death by anthrax is v.hard to get right, I am told. It's all in the spore size.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Andrew, the flight I was on was from London to Johannesburg. If anything, *that* would have had a reason to be more secure, too!

(That said, I do not remember going through X-ray machines. That does not mean they were not there.)

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

OK, good. I am just being a worrier.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

basically you have to be a large industrialized nation with a ridiculous military budget to efficiently use anthrax as a weapon! just like the us, uk, russia, um er yeah...

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Well you can't see X-rays can you?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I was talking about the text you quoted.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

You can't see X-rays (unless you are Superman) but the machines are fairly hard to miss!

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

18 POLICE STATIONS SUBSTITUTE

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Scotland Yard said: "As a precaution officers have been deployed at Warren Street London Underground station in full protective equipment in order to carry out an examination of the scene.

"We have carried out initial examination at Oval and early indications show no trace of chemical agents."

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

news conference soon, this should clear things up.

Sir Ian Blair, C/D?

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Do not feed the pete.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

blair tells everyone not to worry then hurries off for an emergency meeting of COBRA

i guess it is too late to rename whatever cobra is the INTERIM SESSION OF WAYS and MEANS or similar, but CALLING IT "COBRA" MAKES ME WORRY!!

*blair arrives, picks up and strokes white cat*

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

*john zorn sues for copyright infringement*

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

our hospital now has a message to look out for the suspect now (not sure if i can give out the details so i won't)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Explanation of rules of cricket would be useful for North Americans trying to understand this incident. Are "loud bangs" accepted in cricket?

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

xpost - mark, don't worry, just think of john zorn. unless that worries you.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

*look out for the suspect!*

*what's he look like?*

*not allowed to tell you*

and we wonder how they get away with it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

So I'm not that stupid if my "something similar" was a thought that occurred to the police too, anyway.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

It should be called the Prompt Action National Interest Committee. That would sound reassuring.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. Disappointing.

― grraham (noodles is a cunt), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

is ian blair going to meet these guys?

http://www.chud.com/graphics3/dragoncon01/dcdestrocc.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Shabaz says her place has been totally evacuated and are in the pub..

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

SHE WAS IN THE PUB ANYWAY i bet.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

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