Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

BBC and NYT are reporting it was an improvised explosive device w/ a timer -- any reason to think it *wasn't* terrorism?

tbf some people have weird hobbies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I shd finish that Tunes poll some day

Before a terrorist kills you.

on current stats that gives me a few thousand years, I like those odds

BBC News quite happy to just put LONDON TUBE EXPLOSION as the ticker headline giving no sense of scale (sure they won't be the only ones though).

LONDON BUCKET FIRE

I bet ISIS will be looking at the state of that explosive device and marveling at the UK Jihadis levels of expertise and finesse, so much!

too many foreign terrorists in our game, young brits don't get a chance. of course if your name was abu bakr sam al-ardici you'd be given the top job.

inappropriate choking work lol

lol ditto

Same :)

If you're Tom or Paul or 'Arry or Lee, "lone wolf" is about as far as you can go.

don't, as i just did, boss sitting beside me, allow your mind to place big sam's face in place of al-baghdadi's as you mentally replay one of those brief isis sermon videos they show on the news

xpost

now contemplating the necessity of a secondary "Lolling at Inept Route One Brit Terrorism" thread

the misshapen caliphate

sounds like the title of a book they discuss on radio 4

Four lions on teh shirt

"place me in any cell in the world, i will deliver the module"

"my client can fit a bomb into a bucket from quite a long way away"

Robyn Frost, about to enter the station to travel into central London, saw “blood on the floor and people running down the stairs screaming ‘get out’”. Aaron Butterfield, a production manager, also arriving at the station, described people “crawling over one another” in desperation as they tried to flee. There was more panic, he said, when police told them there had been an explosion, and “someone was running around with a knife” and there was possibly another explosive device, he said.

are we now doomed to a world where some fucking idiot says "someone is running around with a knife" every time anything explodes?

just went to google this to see what happened

#BREAKING Man was shouting 'Allahu Akbar' when attacked with a hammer two persons in Lyon, #France pic.twitter.com/Ghel8VNRes

— Rami (@RamiAILoIah) September 15, 2017

and found nothing about this attack but apparently there was a [second, different] knife attack earlier today?

there was an attempted knife attack here in Paris today, at Châtelet, on a soldier on anti-terror patrol, is that what you're thinking of? no one was hurt, attacker was captured, said something about Allah during the attack, was previously unknown to French intelligence, apparently.

The Irishman was said to have been heard to shout allahu akhbar as he snuck off early for a cheeky pint, his disciplinary meeting heard

Reports that the toddler shouted allahu akhbar whilst refusing to eat vegetables, naughty step told

Democratic convention "screamed allahu akhbar" while selecting Clinton - breaking

if he had shouted allardyce akbar nobody would have batted an eyelid

People on bus looking at me funny, may shout allahu Akbar in a bid for distraction

in most of the country the only words anyone understands nowadays are "allahu akbar"

lol you all

do you think it would throw these lads off their stride if everybody joined in with "allahu akbar"?

could be like the new kolo/yaya toure tune. maybe to the same tune.

would love to see a video of a load of pissed up young lads in some town centre singing it.

a lot of that at the Emirates last night according to the BBC

They've been among us the whole time.

apparently a politician who refuses to give interviews to the press or speak in public has referred to this attack as "cowardly"

"big sam's face in place of al-baghdadi's"

Lol! I can't get that image out of my head now.

'We won't let terrorists change the way we live'

yeah, apart from every time there is an explosion now, there will be an unruly all-for-one stampede over the unfortunate people on the deck. That wonderful Blitz spirit!

Bowin to Blitz

Has Corbyn condemned The Big Sam yet though?

Sorry London, in what has been a shitty year across the globe, you are dealing with an extra level of bullshit.

nah

shit happens everywhere

the tower fire is the only really shocking thing to have happened here lately

I can remember MTV Raps doing a live broadcast outside Piccadilly Tube station in the 90's while a security alert was happening. Fab 5 Freddy was saying something ridic like "Wow, do you live with this terrorist danger on a daily basis in this city?". Lol, hardly comparable with living in a Crips and the Bloods warzone U know, but we survive!

Indeed, I'd quite like if they could catch this clown with the bucket before I go to my work tomorrow.

... but anyway I'm certainly not losing any sleep.

maybe it was a clown on his way to work? have they checked to see it is was full of confetti?

I wasn't trying to belittle anyone's current paranoia. Just reminiscing about those more genteel IRA days.

Tomorrow's DM front page is predictably wack - apparently its google's fault?

I am really annoyed by the obvious theatre of terror levels, mainly because I don't remember them being implemented before 9/11, so it feels like they've been invented by white people who don't like brown people.

And when the IRA used to make improvised explosive devices, they tended to use more than 1 LIDL bag and a bucket. Remember the Canary Wharf damage? What was terror threat level then?

the local army camp always had a board out the front with the current BIKINI state on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIKINI_state

also, this was 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Wm4qXC_j4

Indeed, I'd quite like if they could catch this clown with the bucket before I go to my work tomorrow.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:54 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... but anyway I'm certainly not losing any sleep.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:54 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe it was a clown on his way to work? have they checked to see it is was full of confetti?

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:57 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Alright me laddio, yer nicked"
"Ya got me bang to rights, er I mean allahu akbar"

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/386-clown-police.jpg

What's going on in London?