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yeah in the same sky news article they managed to say "there's no panic" and "everyone panicked"

genius

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Everyone panicked in the sky newsroom but the public took it in their stride perhaps :/

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

(can i suggest just linking to large graphics rather than having them inline, just to not slow thing down? cheers)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Tube lines reported as not suspended now, only the three incident lines.

― mzui (mzui), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Reports of a shooting at Warren Street.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

are those SKY images actually related to the stories in the bar? the top one is at the bottom of hackney road --- but is that the bus in question... and the bottom isn't in hackney at all i don't think but i can't think where it is

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Looks like Holborn Circus, the second one. Could be wrong, though.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Euston road says the name of the image.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

the guardian waited till 1.51pm to put out an e-mail to subscribers. it says very little ... because, right now, there's little to say. responsible reporting does exist ... just not on sky 24, for many obvious reasons.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

second one is warren street from euston road

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

No injuries on the bus.

Thank god.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

for fuck's sake INTERN ALL MUSLIMS WITH LINKS TO JIHADIST GROUPS NOW.

― slb1, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, now I see it. The white building looks like the Sainsburys building at Holborn.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh God no! My mother just woke me up and told me they were reporting about this on CNN here in the States. I've been away for a few days housesitting (haven't really had access to a computer until now) but I figured I'd check the reaction here.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: the crown prince of understatement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Hammersmith and City line was closed from Paddington to Barking, or wherever it goes. And it is underground, at least from Paddington to Euston Square.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

the white building is our new hospital. i work just next door to it

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

guess i'll be walking to bethnal green tomorrow, then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703777.stm

BBC says detonators only

our reuters box is on the fritz

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Hammersmith and City line was closed from Paddington to Barking, or wherever it goes. And it is underground, at least from Paddington to Euston Square.

It's not underground at Shepherds Bush though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

windows blown out on the bus, but no injuries, according to reuters (via radio 5 live)?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Fuck's sake...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

bus is no.26
no injuries
just windows blown out
soz if already posted, just skimmed end of thread

― emsk, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

and, just for those people who keep forgetting, NONE OF THE HAMMERSMITH AND CITY IS A TUBE LINE.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

(I love the British being pedantic and British about their railways, even in the midst of a crisis.)

x-post ... CRIKEY.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

eyewitness live on bbcnews24: *pause* "sorry, moving out of the way because there are reporters everywhere and i don't want them to hear what i'm saying."
do you not realise who you're talking to? dumbass

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

for fuck's sake INTERN ALL MUSLIMS WITH LINKS TO JIHADIST GROUPS NOW.
-- slb1 (sl...), July 21st, 2005 12:51 PM. (later)

what, have sex games with them with a cigar then smoke it?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

one injury reported at warren street.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Kate: was that crikey at me? If so I'm sorry for shouting.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

dahlin it sounded to me like she'd just said 'fucking' and was trying to recover from it

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

so what happened to mr rucksack? surprised he wasn't ripped limb from limb by NOTW readers tbh.
-- g-kit (kittenslikemil...), July 21st, 2005.

guardian readers are so much more tolerant of their potential assailants! this is bad news -- either incompotent bombers (detonators only) or they are trying to scare us.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

makes me wonder if this is the work of some inexperienced copycats...
yay for incompetance in that case...

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I was wondering what happened to the rucksack bloke. Would not be surprised at all if he got the shit kicked out of him.

I'm a bit worried, my wife was on her way through central London and she's not answering her phone. She was supposed to be taking the Victoria line from Green Park to Finsbury Park.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Tube for me refers to the entire London Underground network, whether its actually deep level tunnels, or cut and shut, or whatever.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

(No, the X-post and crikey were about the 26 getting its windows blown out.)

((It is on the tube map and goes underground = IT IS A TUBE!!!))

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

watching tv - eyewitness report from Oval said something about a man who legged it out of the station following the explosion and who wasn't caught, also manages to say "fuck" on BBC at 2pm.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

why detonators only?
is it more likely to be a blunder or a warning of sorts?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

This makes less than zero sense.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Still not as many "fucks" as Snoop, though. (xpost)

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's some fucked up BNP supporters...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I think this warrants a fuck or two.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I'd have thought it more likely to be a Richard Reid-style blunder.

((It is on the tube map and goes underground = IT IS A TUBE!!!))

Grrrr! ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

detonators 'go off' without triggering bombs. i think this is what happens at the end of 'the peacemaker'.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Nicole Kidman to thread.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

WHat the saying fuck but, the Hammersmith & City line being a tube (which it is) or these attacks two weeks on which may be meant to scare (scare being a few notches down from terror I suppose).

Yes, that is waht happens at the end of the peacemaker, just before one goes to the box office and politely requests your money back.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

First as tragedy, then as farce.

What a load of cock.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

London Underground Shuts Down In Code Amber alert

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I'd have thought it more likely to be a Richard Reid-style blunder.
i wish the detonators had been in their shoes and blown their toes off.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

it must be pretty damn incompetent if they messed it up in all 4 occasions.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

OK, someone give me a clue as to the best way to get from Finsbury Park to Victoria without using the Victoria or Picadilly lines.

I take it that this isn't at the "stay where you are" level or severity yet...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

i guess it only takes one person to badly make four bombs, thank god.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

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