More Incidents in London

[mabel]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:32am

I guess the Underground has been evacuated.

Hopefully it isn't anything particularly serious.

Updated On: 7/21/05 at 08:32 AM

[Forester]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:36am

BBC says it's a nail bomb.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:37am

This is so scaaaaary. Be safe, Londoners!

There's a mall a bit north of NYC that was evacuated yesterday; a package was found that had wires in it, and it was making ticking sounds. I think a controlled explosion was done to see what it was.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 8:54am

Well, I've removed my quotes in the subject line, as it sounds like info has been firming up a bit on this. It's so ridiculous!

Very scary indeed, emcee.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:16am

Wow, they've put hospitals on alert, now.

[Forester]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:19am

There are unconfirmed reports that it might be a prank. Something the tabloid paper might do to get a "scoop."

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:19am

That explains the typical New York response to assume we're next. Even my train station, surely low on the list of sites, had police in it this morning.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:21am

Yesterday was the first time I had noticable police presence in mine.

I'm scared to go on the train again.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:33am

There are unconfirmed reports that it might be a prank. Something the tabloid paper might do to get a "scoop."

That is seriously derranged if it's true!

Sorry I don't really have any words of encouragement for you, emcee. Sadly, it's just something that we have to deal with/keep in the back of our minds living in NYC or any other major city...I guess. I don't know.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:36am

This "trickle effect" happened after 9/11 also, so hopefully it's nothig major. We had all those anthrax scares, and all of a sudden mailroom employees were (are?) required to wear latex gloves, etc.

The building I worked in at the time also housed an int'l bank, and we had bomb scare evacuations almost on a daily basis.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:40am

Note: from another website...I haven't checked BBC yet myself:

BBC News now report that:

Dummy explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has said

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What the hell does that mean? " Dummy explosions. It's kind of along the lines of what Forester was saying. Very strange.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 9:49am

latest from BBC website

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

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:06am

What is a "nail bomb"?

[mabel]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:07am

I'd imagine it's a bomb that's had nails added to it to increase the damage that it would do.

[Sister George]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:47am

Yep basically a bag full of nails - easy way to cause lots of damage -

But it seems as if they were 'dummy' nail bombs so just made to look like bombs - 2 weeks to the day - 3 tubes and 1 bus again targeted - but not suicide bombers and not in rush hour so seems more symbolic and more like min effort to cause max disruption.