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Incident in Swindon?
Brighton station evacuated
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
..
It looks bad
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
You have got to be fucking kidding.

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)
What the shuddering fuck is going on?!

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)
Its the apocalypse
starting in london.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:16, archived)
I fucking knew it would start there...

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:19, archived)
accordinging to BBC News Online
Swindon and Brighton stations evacuated.

Probably every police force on uber-alert, and any suspicious packages being treated as deadly.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)
I'm quite impressed by the level of organisation here

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:17, archived)
itv news now
showing bus blown up
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
Sky too
Edit: nermal.org/misc/mirror/bus2.jpg
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)

I can't see anyone surviving that
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:10, archived)
they have interviewed passengers
unbelievably
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)
moblog pic
from on one of the tubes
moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=77571
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:19, archived)
That thing in the foreground?
If that was a bus, that's really not good.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)
Fucking hell all the news sites
are completely borked for me - I knew I'd get the information I needed from here...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)

Try Radio 4.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)
pfft

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
we have just been told by chief cop
that everything is under control

he confirms 6 explosions but it is still confused.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
Six?
Not three?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:18, archived)
For BBC News
try the BBC News server farm in New York: www.b3ta.com/talk/622997

Although the www.bbc.co.uk servers are borked in both the UK and New York, the News servers are still working.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)
Radio 4 is useless-
"the timing raises the suspicion of terrorist activity"

Well no shit. Good analysis there.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
One of the TV stations here
has finally started carrying Sky News.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:06, archived)
Another is carrying BBC news
(don't know if it's domestic or BBC World) which is better to watch?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)
I turned on Radio 1
and got "City Of Blinding Lights"...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:06, archived)
well they are all over 80
and are operated by strings
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:06, archived)
As opposed to
blithely jumping to conclusions?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
I'm trying to think of any other possible explanation
but none exactly springs to mind.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)
It could all be some terrible accident.
Chances are that it isn't, but I'd rather the news people reported news, rather than random speculation.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)
A terrible accident
where four bombs were accidentally left on public transport ?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
Oh be reasonable,
we've all done it.

MM, take your head out of your arse and smell the C4!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)
I think it's probably terrorist activity, too,
but I couldn't say for a fact.

Besides, I love Radio 4, and will defend it to the ends of the earth, even if I am wrong.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)
Seriously
at this point there is no way it could be anything else. I think they should be at least using the words "would seem to be" by this point.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)
Be fair mate
What the fuck else causes four bombs in one morning ?

PMT ?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:09, archived)
"It was me 'ormones!"

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)
Come on,
how often do busses and trains spontaneously and simultaneously explode? It's obviously terrorists - jumping to conclusions would be saying 'It must be al-Queda'.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)
This ^
Don't forget that most of it seems to be around the City. Far too much of a coincidence. To back up Mr Tea's statement, don't forget Oklahoma City, first reports were that it was Islamic militants...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)
For all we know,
it could be organised crime. Haven't you seen Die Hard 3?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:14, archived)
Yippee-kai-yay,
motherfucker.

God, I love that movie!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:16, archived)
Me, too.
It'll probably be banned, now, as it's far too instructional...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:19, archived)
not alowed radio at work - it stirs up the blood
what's the latest? are there any fatalities? I'm getting 'bodies everywhere' on some reports and 'a few injuries' from the Beeb.
Sorry, I don't think you are my potentialterroristattackdescribingbitches ;D
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
According to Itv news
there is 20 dead.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)
oh god
:(
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)
are
/unnecessary pedant
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:17, archived)
Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,1523084,00.html?gusrc=rss
"Laura Matthews, a press officer at Universities UK, with offices in Tavistock Square, said there were bodies lying around the bus explosion, some without arms or legs. "Get people down here quickly," she sobbed. She thought a bomb had gone off and was trying to evacuate her office."
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:09, archived)
Fuck...
Simon Corvett, 26, from Oxford, was on the eastbound train leaving Edgware Road tube station when the explosion happened.

"All of sudden there was this huge bang. It was absolutely deafening and all the windows shattered. The glass did not actually fall out of the windows, it just cracked. The train came to a grinding halt and everyone fell off their seats," he said.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:12, archived)
Just got in...
...thought was working today.
Have made a mistake and am not.

Now trying to keep phone in signal in event of a major incident callout.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)

www.b3ta.com/talk/623160
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
*points out that I live in Suffolk*
*and work in chelmsford*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
*inserts shitty strap-on here*
Well you did ask for it...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
well you are a burns nurse
but you will be too far away to do any good until tonight
got o bed and have a snooze
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
Either way...
....it will be a few hours whilst the London hospitals do all their triagey stuff in A & E before us regional burns types get a call.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:11, archived)
so really
sleep would be the best option
just in case
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
Quite possibly.
*takes laptop upstairs*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:19, archived)
Good luck mate
/feeling decidedly twitchy as I can do fuck all without the magic registration confirmation from the GMC
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:27, archived)
government statement
20 dead so far
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)
Oh Christ.
Got a source for that?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)
itv
:(
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
ITV news
offficial governm,ent statement

showing sniffer dogs in russel square on TV right now
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
ITV Government source

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:05, archived)
yes they have downgraded it
it's now just government source
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:06, archived)

Up to 90 casualties on one of the tubes. I hope that means they are not using the military slang for fatalities, and they actually mean injuries.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
I've heard 20, 30 and 90 so far but 90 was complete speculation
and not to be heeded.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
That's an understatement, sadly
as they only give details of people they've confirmed the identities of, IIRC. Think of the tsunami reports.

Bah, I'm off for lunch.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:05, archived)
So... .how about that local sports team

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:57, archived)
Sorry,
think everyone is planning to invade erm... Iraq Libya Dubai
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
Fair play.
Dad was supposed to be in London today but the meeting place changed. Thank gawd.

And what if it's the IRA? Isn't this the time of year they usually start going nuts?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)
The IRA aren't the organised force they once were
They're more like a straggly gang rather than serious terrorists - more likely to hit you for protection money than blow up the Home Secretary.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:05, archived)
Can't say I know all that much about the subject.
Ta for the info.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
Every day's a school day on b3ta
;)
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)
Fuck that
If Gerry has any sense, he'll be on the TV in 10 minutes looking very sheepish.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)

Dubai Paris
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)

"Survivors reported a distinct smell of onion and body odour coming from the tunnels shortly before the explosion"
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
"One of the unexploded devices bore the message "Die Rosbifs! and had Camembert in place of semtex"

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
hope there weren't chemicals
in the bombs
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:07, archived)
Erm...
that's how bombs work.

If you mean dirty bombs and that - don't worry. The risk is low except to those close to the bomb, who'll be in a bad way anyway.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:09, archived)
Bomb on Liverpool Street
Hound's Ditch? (Sorry, not familiar with London that much)


Image from Tavistock Sq.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:55, archived)
home secretary just spoken on TV

confirmed it's serious. Nothing more.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:58, archived)
And we, of course,
needed an authority figure to tell us that......
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
At least they are awake and talking
and not, say, staring at a child's book for 10 minutes...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)
^this

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:04, archived)
Bloody hell...
The stock market just dive bombed...

I just lost about £3000, I know its hardly the most serious thing happening today.

Still watching ITV news, nothing new just yet...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:59, archived)
On radio a witness says
there are bloodstains on the buildings around the bus.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)
Its sick, they knew that the second something went off theyd close the tube, so they blew up the buses they knew people would pack into when turned away from the tube

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:53, archived)
True
Mobile phone networks seem fucked too.

I've only just got in, backlog of trains getting into London.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:54, archived)
go home
seriously, london is at a standstill
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:55, archived)
*Walk
...home that is
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:59, archived)
70 mile walk ?
Fuck that.

Trains are running, late but running....
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:01, archived)
Mobile Networks
Bloke on 5Live just said that they switch the mobile netowrks off wen shit like this happens so they can't be used to trigger more bombs.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:56, archived)
thats a good idea

except the emergency services rely on mobile phones
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:59, archived)
No they don't.
They have their own radio systems.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
a statement recently stated that the police
rely on mobile phones alongside their short range radio systems
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:03, archived)
Mobile Networks
Bloke on 5Live just said that they switch the mobile networks off when shit like this happens so they can't be used to trigger more bombs.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:56, archived)
Glad to hear you are ok
actually.

*hugs in a manly relieved fashion*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
eye witness saw an entire tube carriage blown up

it gets worse
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:54, archived)
Congratulations on winning the Olympics eh ?

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:57, archived)
Civilians all.
Wonder who did it. And if it's to do with the G8 or the Middle East. Probably not the Olympics; something like this would have taken long term planning.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:55, archived)
winning the olympics could have been the secret trigger

and makes more impact if the world knows their people will be where these type of things can happen
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:57, archived)
Like the Real IRA
did in Omagh
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:58, archived)
I thought the bus and tube
were simultaneous?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:59, archived)
Apparently slightly afterwards

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
multiple bombs

not just one
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
No...
buses exploded about an hour later, so people had time to rush off tube onto buses first...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
where the best place online to stay informed?
no tv here at work and every site seems to have different info.

Thanks.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:46, archived)
B3ta

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:46, archived)
I always find out all breaking news from here

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:48, archived)
Me too:)
Damn my lack of a life
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:50, archived)
True

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)
*second blast at russel square*

terrible injuries now official from home secretary
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)
Hmm,
packs quite a punch, that Charles Clarke, but he's no John Prescott.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)
b3ta is looking at all sources it seems
and we could update you and annoy evil lu all in one go!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)
cheers
have to go and teach in a second. Hope its being blown out of all proportion (pun unintentional). To be honest, i only know a few people in London and the chances are that they are fine. It's shocking cos it's closer to home, but the entire western world is a target for terrorism so we shouldn't be surprised. And nows our chance to show the americans and the spanish how to do things tastefully.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)
i thoughyt it was blown out of proportion
the opposite is now clear it seems.

The blasts are far worse than we first thought
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:53, archived)
Me too
Easy to be blase :(
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:55, archived)
from the sounds of it...
These blasts are designed to cause chaos rather than fatalities.

If they just wanted to kill, they would have hit slightly earlier, and gone for the mainline station forcourts with nail bombs etc.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:54, archived)
Here's working well
Seriously, I'll stay on and report what the News are saying. I feel like a journalist.

/snorts coke
/pays bribe to plod for info

EDIT: Wow, has Karen from the USA on the Beeb now got some holiday snaps to show when she gets home.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)

Runs towards explosion with camera...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)
BBC world service web stream
hasn't fallen over.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:48, archived)
Linky please?
Ta.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)

www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:50, archived)
Fank yew

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)
I can't get the BBC to play on my PC (stupid RealPlayer).
Could you just transcribe it onto here? Thanks.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)
American woman
saw bus go boom
wants to go home
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)
Can you not set it to Windoze Media instead
(for some stuff...)

*memories of TMS at work :)*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)
Mine's
on through WMP
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:53, archived)
Bit moot now.
Just tried to get a live feed through Media Player, and it looks like their server as melted under the strain.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:08, archived)
i'm flicking between here
and popbitch
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)
Disappointed so far.
Nothing to beat the Victoria Beckham - 9/11 joke yet.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:50, archived)
Here, I think
most news sites fall over at times like this, you're better off filtering forums.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)
Google news filters reports in from all over the world.
You have a choice of several hundred to choose from. The San Luis Obispo Tribune is my tip, it shouldn't fall over any time too soon.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)
I'm looking for the Duluth Reporter and Evening Star
to fulfil my breaking-news events.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:56, archived)
the BBC

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:49, archived)
This ^
I seem to still be on the bbc website.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:51, archived)
I'm not doing a bad job at the moment...
If I do say so myself.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:52, archived)
Indeed you are.
I didn't think about the stock market angle either until I saw your post.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:00, archived)
I actualy think you normally do a great job
but your blog is blocked by websense....
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:02, archived)
Sky News...
...by far....
www.sky.com/skynews/home
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:57, archived)
Cunt on BBC
claiming it's not helpful to link a bomb on a bus and an accident on the tube.

Just called the Tube stuff "a natural disaster". Hmmm...

UPDATE: Prime Minister is "taking this very seriously". Cheers, Tone.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:40, archived)
minister on ITV
says it is clearly a co-ordinated deliberate attack
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:41, archived)
Well the Daily Mail say it was probably pikeys high on ASBOs:
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=354944&in_page_id=1770
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:41, archived)
Not single mother asylum seekers
who cause cancer?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:42, archived)
Yes,
with HOODIES.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:44, archived)
The phrase "covered in blood" occurs three times in that article.
Nice to see they're not scaremongering.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:15, archived)
See,
this is what happens when Alistair Campbell is in New Zealand. They need a coordinated response!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:42, archived)
I read that as 'tube staff'

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:42, archived)
So did I
god, that must mean something, maybe it means we are soul mates?

or we had crap educations and can't read properly
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)
it's funny
cos it's true
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:48, archived)
Bet they
were all wearing hoodies
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:44, archived)
Yeah
08:47 simulatenous bus and tube incidents.

Co-incidence....
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:44, archived)
wasn't that the time
one of the planes hit the twin towers?

/conspiracy theory
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)
Yes, first 11/9/01 attack was:
8:46:40 AM local time
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:48, archived)
All in the city in rush hour
definately coincidence.

Cunts.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:47, archived)
Given his punching the air and a little jig yesterday,
perhaps he'll be punching his palm, pacing to and fro and muttering ominously today.

I suspect he's slowly turning into a mime.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:44, archived)
Hurrah
BBC uk might have fallen over, but God bless the World Service web stream.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:45, archived)
Tip
Dont read all the reports whilst listening to sad music, makes you bit tearful :'(
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:45, archived)
Tony is probably busy
making sure George Bush is okay.

When he makes his statement (drafted four years ago, no doubt) with his fucking Sincere Face I'm going to throw something at the TV.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:13, archived)
LATEST UPDATE
An unidentified aircraft has just hit Big Ben and has landed in the Thames.

A suspicious number of people have started farting and burping.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:36, archived)
Dr Who?

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:37, archived)

www.b3ta.com/board/4856233
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:40, archived)
Is Tavistock Sq
close to Russell Sq? I'm shit at London Geography. I can't work out whether it's one or two confirmed buses.

Also... pic for Aldgate
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:35, archived)
aye
i only know because the guy on bbc news24 got confused about the same thing, only one confirmed bus atm
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:37, archived)
russel sq is the name of the tube station

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:37, archived)
Yep
both south of Euston.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:39, archived)
Bloody hell...
Union sources say that 3 buses may have exploded.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:27, archived)
popbitch
mentions 3 buses and 6 tubes
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:27, archived)
And
Tom Cruise was caught in bed with Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20. Also, Hawkus is a twat.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:29, archived)
pffft

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:29, archived)
.
I like the idea of sky news getting all their 'eyewitness' stories off Popbitch...

Has anywhere other than sky mentioned busses or bombs?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:37, archived)
the bbc is
mentioning buses now
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:40, archived)
[insert "the problem with rolling news" rant]

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:16, archived)
Ok, what the fuck is going on?
I've just got back from shopping... is it the apocalypse?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:28, archived)
no
i just farted
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:28, archived)
yes.
quite possibly
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:28, archived)
Switch to ITV news

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:28, archived)
Must be the french,
upset over loosing yesterday.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:30, archived)
As I said earlier,
www.b3ta.com/talk/622876
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:30, archived)
Broken tube trains,
and exploding busses. It's the end of the world.

But, chin up, worse things have happened at sea.

Disclaimer: its looking increasingly likely that this will be no laughing matter. Just like 9/11...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:32, archived)
And Madrid
Which seemed a helluva lot closer to home.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:35, archived)
You live in a temporal distortion,
AICMFP.

Either that, or your map reading skills leave much to be desired.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:38, archived)
Madrid's closer than America
I think..
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:39, archived)
For some reason,
I thought you meant that Madrid was closer than London.
My board reading skills leave much to be desired!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:48, archived)
agreed

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:36, archived)
AND ALSO
that an explosive device was on at least one train
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:28, archived)
I know, its pretty messed up
I mean, I know the French are jealous about the Olympics, but this.....
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:32, archived)
Ladies and Gentlemen...
We have had a security alert, I'm going to have to ask you all to leave the board via any available exit and move clear.

Please remain calm.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:24, archived)
Argh......
PANIC
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:25, archived)
*points to message
on cover of Hitchhiker's Guide*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:25, archived)
This is no time for fish, Man!
Pull yourself together!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:27, archived)
Points at book...
*screams*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:29, archived)
Bus explosion!
Russell Square

Eyewitness reports casualties
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:19, archived)
Well yes
edit: that came out wrong
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:20, archived)
This has the hallmarks of Osama
because we got the Olympics

One fatality on the bus/ top deck blown off
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:21, archived)
You'd think he'd have been better off
doing it before the voting...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:22, archived)
The Tower of London is in flames!
Big Ben has toppled into the Thames!
Cholera in the streets!
Plymouth devoured by sea monster!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:21, archived)
Piss orf cloggy;)

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:22, archived)
In other news,
Kitten stuck in tree. Aaaaaaahhhh.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:23, archived)
Coming up: Bush
Fell Of Bike.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:25, archived)
House prices have rocketed
Teenage ASBO thugs wearing more caps than this time last year
*Applies for position at Daily Mail.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:41, archived)
Switch to ITV news
They have a man there
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:22, archived)
good call
thanks
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:23, archived)
BBC24 says 2 explosions
entire underground closed
people trapped in trains in tunnels.

no report of serious casualties
edit/ there are some serious head injuries caused by the train coming to a sudden halt.

edit/edit/ a bus has blown up - this is serious
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:13, archived)
Time to nuke the french then.

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)
From orbit
Only way to be sure
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:17, archived)
Is it any coincidence that London Energy is owned by
the French energy company EDF???

I think not...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)
No serious casualties...
eye witnesses reporting seing 'limbs' on trains !
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)
Misreported
they actually saw lambs.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)
They said 1 serious
about 15 minutes ago.

BBC relying on blokes on mobiles to report the news.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)
Latest update:
here.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:16, archived)
Bloody Hell!
What carnage!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:20, archived)
talking to one of the passengers
a train has derailed after a loud bang. Serious head injuries for some passengers.

they are talking to him now, walking wounded have been removed from the train now
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:16, archived)
BBC News page says
"walking wounded" at Liverpool Street and one person with their life at risk.

Morning all!

Edit: and pffft!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:17, archived)
He should never have taken his stabilisers off.

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:26, archived)
To be fair to the guy
Raleigh Choppers do look a bit spazzy with stabilisers on.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:30, archived)
And have those pointless Preparing for Emergencies leaflets that
the government sent out been any good at all? Not one bloody bit I would imagine. People are probably milling about and getting in the way of emergency services, asking questions and bing a nuisance regardless.

edit: I've seen about 20 different stories about it and at least 3 say there was a a possible train collision and one which cited a police officer as saying there was one.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)
ITV news seems to be the best at the moment...
They have had a reporter on the scene of the bus explosion at Tavistock square, plus they are discounting the news about power surge.

Simulataneous bus and train explosions = terrorist attack.....
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:20, archived)
help me!
Someone please explain, its too early (and im blonde)
Are you jus messing around or has this actually happened?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:32, archived)
Right, new thread
Any more news? - rumours of 30 dead at Aldgate, bus explosion at Russell Square, plus Edgeware Road, Old Street, Bank, and a bunch of other places.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:06, archived)
They wont let the...
sky helicopter film russell square
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:08, archived)
Ah rumours
in fairness a bomb at Russell square wouldnt go amiss, student cunts*

*unless it has in which case thats awful
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:09, archived)
The 4 main channels are still on crap daytime TV

I would have thought they would have changed to a newsflash (like they did on 7/11) if it was big.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:09, archived)
7/11?
If they had two months' warning, couldn't they have stopped it happening?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:10, archived)
7/11 Newsflash:
Dan Rather gets the munchies.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:13, archived)
It IS big....
on SKY!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:10, archived)
News 24
says 1 person in "life-threatening condition".

Power surge blamed.

Seb Coe thanking God for waiting 24 hours

BBC site gone tits up with people a la 9/11. Best places, then to get news, if that's the case, are football365 forums and popbitch.

UPDATE: News 24 showing Hazmat wearing plods going into the stations.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:11, archived)
I think we need to start some rumours
1) Responsibility has been claimed by a sleeper cell of the Symbionese Liberation Army
2) It is a government-induced panic to get ID-cards pushed through
3) Mossad are taking out prominent terrorists who have claimed asylum in Britain.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:13, archived)
Its the French Olympic extremists!

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:14, archived)
Jacques Chirac
needs to be arrested and questioned. All I'm saying...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:14, archived)
BBC news website appears uncontactable (busy)
ITV1 has cut to rolling news

Could this be this be Al'Quaeda (sp?) attack?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:15, archived)
Power surge
Don't panic.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:17, archived)
As per yesterday,
try newswww1.thny.bbc.co.uk/ through newswww9.thny.bbc.co.uk/
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:18, archived)
Explosion in london?
Or so i believe... an underground station or summink?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:36, archived)
I'm going to be doing some 24 hours news channel surfing...
SKY says a bus has 'exploded' in Russel Square.

This sounds pretty big....
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:59, archived)
I turned on BBC1 to see if there was a news flash
and was greeted by a house makeover program featuring a rather butch blonde in a skirt. That has to be a man.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)
Mykey has his own show?

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:05, archived)
Sky tend to be utter
shit when reporting facts, though.

equation:
Sky news = (truth + guessing) x 5
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:20, archived)
Predictably, the BBC is better informed than b3ta..
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)
a very agrophobic friend of ours
should have been at Liverpool St at about that time and isn't on MSN now. hasn't replied to a text yet either

/concerned
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)
This used
to happen to us on a monthly basis at school. You get very held up, very bored, and very frustrated.

It's not fun but if s/he can cope with Liverpool Street at rush hour they'll be grand. They've most likely been held up somewhere else along the journey.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)
I remember those days
you had to check your station was open or stand outside for an hour while they checked for bombs. They even stripped out all the ceiling linings so bombs couldn't be hidden which made it look even more decrepid that it already was.
The bloody Irish terrorist bastards
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:46, archived)
My most dramatic one
was when they uncovered the mainland's largest ever IRA bomb factory round the corner from school, and we all went up to the top of the multistorey to gawp at the blood spattered front door where they'd gunned someone down, no doubt as his picked up his milk bottles.. That's what you used to get going to school in Hammersmith.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:50, archived)
So this bandage...
do tell.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:54, archived)
oh I hadn't even noticed!
what have you done woman?

in other news, we have our first detractor
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:55, archived)
How odd
I guess that's the giddy heights of fame then :D
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:57, archived)
it'll be interesting to see what comments it gets
particularly as comments have to approved by the moderator
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)
Somewhat ironic
that he has banners advertising 'Crazy Frog' above the entry :P
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:59, archived)
I've been microchipped

Do you think that's a sign of over-possesiveness?

I've been implanted, but I'm milking the bandage as if it was a proper injury!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:58, archived)
ahhh
is it in your arm?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:01, archived)
It is indeed
The same arm that already has weird lumps in it, so I shall be a veritable freak show now :D
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)
My god, tell me more of life in the ghetto of Richmond

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:59, archived)
Well the mean
streets of Wimbledon were a force to be reckoned with.

/rock 'ard, me
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:01, archived)
Yeah
muggings by roving gangs of Wombles was common-place
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:02, archived)
I think
most of the wombles have been arrested in Edinburgh this week..
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)
Skipping happily down Wimbledon Hill
in your skimpy tennis skirt whistling the Wombling Song.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)
Pfffft :)

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:02, archived)
Ah.
That must have literally just arrived after i'd posted it.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)

www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188265,00.html
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)
"Some Kind Of Power Surge"
I think the London Traffic Centre's computer has achieved sentience. We're You're all doomed!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:48, archived)
Bet you're all wishing you were on the other side of the world now,
eh?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:51, archived)
Yep
Bali would be nice.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)
Quite a few people here are still touchy about Bali
after a few years back when some cunts blew up a tourist bar there.

And also because an Australian was recently sentenced to 20 years for smuggling marijuana there, even though the Australian Court of Public Opinion decided that she was innocent. Of course, it doesn't have anything to do with her being an attractive young woman...
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:55, archived)
Touchy?
Come live in London. It started in the second world war and has been bombed ever since on a regular basis.

The only way to live with it is humour.

edit/ Coincidently I had a drunken conversation with a Norwegian girl in a pub in Oxford Street on Tuesday.
She had come back from Paris and realised how much damage London had sustained in the war from bombing only after seeing how intact Paris was.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:57, archived)
Yes,
but you have to realise that we're kind of sheltered here. The only worry we have about war is how to surrender if the Indonesians suddenly decide they want a bit more land.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:00, archived)
ahem
that was my point.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:00, archived)
Ah, right.
Well..well...*flips through excuse book*

"The cause of the problem is:
Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters."
(the excuses may be more tailored towards Computing Professionals...)
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:01, archived)
Would that be
The Big Book of Star Trek Scripts?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:03, archived)

Pick one
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)
How odd.
I got stuck at "Boss's kid has fucked up the machine."
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:08, archived)
I was at aldgate east
yesterday for the first time. wierd.

/it wasnt me
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:51, archived)
It's not
that weird is it now really. I used to work round the corner from there, back in the days before the gherkin made it interesting ;)
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)
it is!
I've only been in london for a year, so this is all new to me.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:54, archived)
eek
news24 are interviewing commuters who were on the train, there have been some injuries

Liverpool St station.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)
hmmm...
northern line was cunted beyond belief, there are power failures all over the place... would explain it

/ning you :) feeling any better?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)
I blame Mill Hill

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:45, archived)
an ex girlfriend of mine's brother was the soldier
that died in that bomb.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:48, archived)
I grew up there

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:49, archived)
*looks suspiciously at Mykey*

Was it coincidence that everywhere you lived there was an 'incident'?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)
Err no...
This isnt the mykey you're looking for...

*waves hand*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:53, archived)
no :(
my tonsils are worse again
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:45, archived)
:( poor you
*hugs*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:55, archived)
Don't worry,
it's just the apocalypse.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:38, archived)
Now?

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:41, archived)

i love the smell of the underground in the morning
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)

Charlie don't tube surf
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:46, archived)
How incosiderate!
Bloody apocalyptic horsemen, coming over here and stealing our immortal souls.

/Daily Mail at the End of The Universe
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:43, archived)
shit

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:41, archived)
It's the Taliban/Russians/Chinese/single mothers/Iraqis/North Koreans/Germans!
*panics*
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:44, archived)
LIBYANS!

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:46, archived)
its not good.
it will fuck everything up here. Thank god I dont have to get the tube
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:48, archived)
*runs away from Liverpool Street, clutching burst paper bag*

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:41, archived)
pffffft :P

(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:47, archived)
'ning, you.
Have the pills kicked in yet, or do you still feel like crap?
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:52, archived)
I'll bet
it will turn out to have been that John Peel.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:42, archived)
It could have
been caused by all the snow though
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:44, archived)
Latest reports indicated....
That a man with a European accent dropped half a ton of English food onto a power grid.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:51, archived)
I am wondering how
half a ton of English food can be dropped in a froeign accent.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:56, archived)
Of course
you might actually be onto something here. French saboteurs! I say we invade them before they do anything else!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:56, archived)
The French army are already preparing for that eventuality
and have redesigned the French flag accordingly; it's now a white cross on a white background.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:02, archived)
:)
I have visions of their uniforms just being made from lots of white detachable panels.
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 10:04, archived)
Bang?
Eek!
(, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 9:55, archived)

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