Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

Sounds like nothing much.

Gunshots - my friend’s boyfriend is locked in someone’s wine cellar until the all-clear.

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

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

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.

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

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.

TfL tweeted to say both stations are now open againp. Wtf?

Vermin.

pic.twitter.com/XrxRuP8oST

— Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) November 24, 2017

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)

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.

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

T*mmy R0b!ns0n getting the online piss ripped out of him is a very fine start to the weekend.

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

RIP Olly Murs

Fuck me. They should be prosecuted. Not sure what for, but there’s got t9 be something.

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!

A question I have no idea as to the answer of: are newspaper tweets considered to be published matter?

We might find out when somebody finally gets murdered after a spate of electrical/gas fault related hate crimes.

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.

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, 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'

Can you stop this.

Can you stop this otm

too soon

surely 'idiot crowd panics over nothing in oxford circus' is pure 'rolling london' and certainly not 'terrorist attacks throughout europe'

Can we just skip straight to the bit when you belatedly realise how obnoxious this is?

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!

*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.

'rolling london' is actually about terrorism tho

& LBI knows i mean him no ill

it was just plain old pedantry

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.

twitter afaict was nothing but ppl mocking ol' yaxley-lennon

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.

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'

hostages taken at supermarket in SW France; one dead, ISIS connection claimed

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43512791

Four dead (reportedly) including the terrorist. His call for the release of Salah Abdeslam unsurprisingly unsuccessful.

Van drives into crowd in Münster, Germany, at least 3 dead

Three including the assailant, who shot himself.

Just a random schmo with a history of suicide attempts, nothing to see here.

This moron's effort was so crap no-one's even mentioned it on ILX yet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45180120

Two people were treated in hospital for their injuries but discharged.

extremely shoddy performance, 2/10 at best

glasgow airport guy possibly even worse

"You won't take me alive ..pigs! erm well maybe next time"

It was reported on the BBC news i heard this morning as mostly a commuter headache.

No Smeato this time round so this guy has no excuses.

(xp) One of my workmates was moaning about his delayed bus journey today, the only time I heard it mentioned.

what do failed terrorist martyrs get as an afterlife punishment? 72 Chuckle Brothers wi' reet appetising hairy arses!

glasgow airport guy possibly even worse

― imago, Tuesday, August 14, 2018 10:15 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something i tend to forget: there were 2 guys, one died of burns, the other is serving life in prison

A dark green Jeep Cherokee, registration number L808 RDT,[16] travelling at a speed estimated by a witness as about 30 mph[17] (48 km/h), struck security bollards in a terror ramming attack at the main entrance to Glasgow Airport.[2] The vehicle was reported to have several petrol containers and propane gas canisters on board. One eyewitness said flames issued from beneath the car when it hit the building, while another eyewitness said it appeared the driver was trying to drive through the terminal doors. According to reports, the car was occupied by two "Asian-looking" men.[18] When the Jeep failed to explode, one man (later identified as Abdulla) threw petrol bombs from the passenger seat and the other (Ahmed) doused himself in petrol and set it alight.[6] Police indicated the vehicle burst into flames when it was driven at the terminal.[19] An eyewitness noted that a man got out of the car and began to fight with police.[20] Another eyewitness said that the man was throwing punches and repeatedly shouting "Allah".[21][22][23] The man was arrested and later identified as Bilal Abdulla, a UK-born doctor of Iraqi descent who was working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Another man exited the car and ran into the terminal building while he was on fire and began writhing on the ground, before being kicked in the testicles by an airport employee, John Smeaton,[24] who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his heroism.