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, 15 September 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
... 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?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 20:57 (seven years ago) link
I wasn't trying to belittle anyone's current paranoia. Just reminiscing about those more genteel IRA days.
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Tomorrow's DM front page is predictably wack - apparently its google's fault?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 15 September 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
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?
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
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
― koogs, Friday, 15 September 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
also, this was 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Wm4qXC_j4
― koogs, Friday, 15 September 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
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 Permalinkmaybe 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
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:54 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, September 15, 2017 8:54 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 15 September 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
What's going on in London?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Fire engines and armed police on the scene
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Friday, 24 November 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Unconfirmed reports of shots fired but no reported casualties. Huge police presence and people being cordoned off/kept in shop basements, but it doesn't look that bad on the TV?
― Matt DC, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
Sounds like nothing much.
― The buttermilk of Beelzebub (Tom D.), Friday, 24 November 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Gunshots - my friend’s boyfriend is locked in someone’s wine cellar until the all-clear.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Friday, 24 November 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
At this stage, we have received one report of a woman sustaining a minor injury when leaving Oxford Circus station. There are no other reported casualties. More updates to follow.— BTP (@BTP) November 24, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
This is going to sound, and be, very pedantic, but from next time on we use London Rolling for this kind of thing yes good ok
― imago, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
I don't think so, that thread has other uses and I don't want to worry that something's happened every it gets bumped for whatever reason.
― Matt DC, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
We have not located any trace of suspects, evidence of shots fired or casualties. Officers still on scene. If you are in a building stay there, if you are on the street in #OxfordStreet leave the area. Officers continue to search the area. More updates as soon as we have them— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 24, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 November 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
Looks like it may have been an electrical fault or something else mistaken for gunshots. If there's any kind of sharp bang in the current climate then people are understandably going to panic and think it's either shots fired or a bomb. Given how rapid the police response was there'd be ambulances on scene if anything much were taking place.
― Matt DC, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
TfL tweeted to say both stations are now open againp. Wtf?
― gyac, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
Vermin.
pic.twitter.com/XrxRuP8oST— Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) November 24, 2017
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
sounds similar to the stampede at jfk last year (where the "gunshots" turned out to be people celebrating usain bolt winning the 100m on tv)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
A high voltage dead short doesn't half make a terrifying flash and bang and these are nervous times, fair enough. But these irresponsible fuckwits need shutting down for good.
― calzino, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
fair, if it's a fuse box then it's not as stupid as the jfk thing
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/the-terrifying-jfk-airport-shooting-that-wasnt.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
T*mmy R0b!ns0n getting the online piss ripped out of him is a very fine start to the weekend.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
The Daily Mail article quoted a tweet from 10 days ago as breaking news.
This is why the Daily Mail is full of rubbish. The article (now deleted) stating there was a lorry attack at Oxford Circus using a tweet from 10 days ago as evidence...🤐 pic.twitter.com/Sji0olu4kE— Ali (@TvvitterGod1) November 24, 2017
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
RIP Olly Murs
― cajunsunday, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Fuck me. They should be prosecuted. Not sure what for, but there’s got t9 be something.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 24 November 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
They should have been prosecuted long before now for hate speech but this is somehow a new low. And lest we forget our PM is going to their brown-nosing parties to suck up to them!
― Custard Cream, Friday, 24 November 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
A question I have no idea as to the answer of: are newspaper tweets considered to be published matter?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 24 November 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
We might find out when somebody finally gets murdered after a spate of electrical/gas fault related hate crimes.
― calzino, Friday, 24 November 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
a really close friend of mine who lives in Germany was visiting London for one single day and got caught up in this, what are the chances? He spent an hour hiding under a table in complete darkness and is really shaken up.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 25 November 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, November 24, 2017 5:42 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this has been bugging me
surely 'idiot crowd panics over nothing in oxford circus' is pure 'rolling london' and certainly not 'terrorist attacks throughout europe'
― imago, Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
Can you stop this.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Can you stop this otm
― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
too soon
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
Can we just skip straight to the bit when you belatedly realise how obnoxious this is?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
If a bit of the old fisticuffs down Carnaby Street is enough to start a disorderly stampede these days, it doesn't do much to dispel the Metropolitan Elites = soft as shite rep!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
*folds arms* "Ah ha, I know exactly what this massive police presence on London's busiest street is, before all the people who are actually there, it's the Rolling London thread for me!"
Even though it was nothing, it's a combination of annoying thread policing, being a dick towards the original poster and wise-after-the-fact, wake-up sheeple bollocks.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 November 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
'rolling london' is actually about terrorism tho
― imago, Saturday, 25 November 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
& LBI knows i mean him no ill
it was just plain old pedantry
― imago, Saturday, 25 November 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
calz otm btw
The far-right gained tried to gain a bit of capital, stoking up fears at this incident - so yeah a bit of pedantry and time-wasting bull crap is just what we need.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 November 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
twitter afaict was nothing but ppl mocking ol' yaxley-lennon
― imago, Saturday, 25 November 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
That this has somehow ended with Kolo Toure telling Piers Morgan to shut the fuck up on Twitter has in some way made it all worthwhile.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 November 2017 11:21 (six years ago) link
Soon after I posted it to this thread I regretted it. For the sole reason that it was too soon to determine which thread it should go in, ie. nothing was sure yet. And I don't want to be one of "those guys", y'know like the DM crying wolf and using every rumor for their own sick agenda. I'm not one of those guys but prob played into it, idk.
We need a 'Rolling something's up but we don't know yet if it fits in the rolling London or trrsm thread thread'
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 26 November 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
hostages taken at supermarket in SW France; one dead, ISIS connection claimed
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43512791
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 March 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
Four dead (reportedly) including the terrorist. His call for the release of Salah Abdeslam unsurprisingly unsuccessful.
― nashwan, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link