More tube bombs?

[oralpain]

You can look at it like an over reaction, but u could also look at it as a safety precaution.

If the police etc just sat back and said "ach, no one was hurt, carry on" There would be a nationwide uproar. They wouldnt be doing their jobs in keeping the city/country safe. It's their duty to assess the full damage, and treat it as a crime scene. They're handling things a LOT better and quicker than 2 weeks ago.

Even if someone did use lemonade + baking soda, they would still be deliberately trying to terrorise people and they would still be commiting a crime, and the police would still need to be involved and the people would still need to be caught and punished.

You cannot stop all attacks, or most hoxes, with out insanely draconic precautions and you cannot shut down a city every time some little thing goes *pop*. Sooner or later the

Need is relative. Somethings are just a waste of time and money.

I've never suggested that the problem should just be ignored, but preventing a million people from going about their bussiness to track down a few people, or make it a bit easier to look for something that may or may not be there will not always be an option. Investigations and counter-terrorism stuff can be done without stoping all public transportation or detaining vast numbers of people.

What is being done now isn't making anyone any safer. if there was someone intent on blowing himself up, he or she coudl do it jsut as eaily and possibly kill just as many people right now, right at one of those police lines where everyone is crowded togeather.

You're right though, people would have a fit if these kinds of worthless precautions were not taken. People in general are frearful, stupid, overreactors, and they have to be appeased.

[Swafe]

with all the money they spent on speed cameras and upsetting everyone, you'd think it should have been more wisely spent else where...

They've spent?, they make more money than they cost, thats the point of them

[MiggyMan]

My building is now inside the cordon.

[MiggyMan]

ohhh errrrm, anti-terrorist squad want our details

[Gordy]

They've learnt their lesson from last time, don't let people leave the scene without getting their details it makes getting any clues very much easier

[Andy]

I've heard that the chemical units from some of the hospitals have been put on standby, dont know if that means that one of the bombs was a chemical weapon?

[Elmo]

nope, just think they're covering their bases. As there was no big explosion they're probably worried that one of them may have given off a gas of some sort.

[Gordy]

1 man has been shot dead in a tube station (Stockwell)

Victoria and Northern Line Closed

[malfunction]

Quoted here in case the eye witness report is removed shortly:

Man shot by armed police on Tube
A man has been shot at Stockwell Tube station by armed police officers, police confirm.

Passengers were evacuated from a Tube train on the Northern Line station in south London after the incident.

Passenger Mark Whitby told BBC News he had seen an Asian man shot five times by "plain-clothes police officers".

Services on the Victoria and Northern lines have been suspended following a request by the police, London Underground said.

Police are hunting four would-be bombers after Thursday's London blasts.

The bombers fled after detonators went off, causing small blasts, but failed to detonate the bombs themselves.

Mr Whitby, told BBC News: "I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers.

"One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him."

Passenger Briony Coetsee said: "We were on the Tube and then we suddenly heard someone say, 'Get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots."

[Gordy]

Armed police have surrounded a mosque in south london, is breaking news now.

[Nick F]

Damm it, I needed to go on the Victoria line today

[Dougal]

The bullets were prob low velocity, hence the multiple shooting.

[EvilWeevil]

I live just down the road from Stockwell tube, and all the local chavs are/were standing round with camera phones. Helicopters everywhere too.