It seems that the attackers were a fairly incompetent bunch (compared to, say, the Paris attacks). Not incompetent enough, sadly, and I have a horrible feeling the casualty count will tick up over the next few hours. What utter, utter, utter, shitbags.
Also, I'm beginning to wonder about my propensity to end up in places which have recently been attacked:
- I got a job in Holborn which started a few weeks ofter 7/7 (I could see Russell Square from my window) - I had a business meeting actually at Brussels Airport 5 days after last year's attack - I start a new job 200m from Parliament Square next Monday. Buggered if these murderous fucksticks are going to change anything I do though.
It seems that the attackers were a fairly incompetent bunch (compared to, say, the Paris attacks). Not incompetent enough, sadly, and I have a horrible feeling the casualty count will tick up over the next few hours. What utter, utter, utter, shitbags.
Also, I'm beginning to wonder about my propensity to end up in places which have recently been attacked:
- I got a job in Holborn which started a few weeks ofter 7/7 (I could see Russell Square from my window) - I had a business meeting actually at Brussels Airport 5 days after last year's attack - I start a new job 200m from Parliament Square next Monday. Buggered if these murderous fucksticks are going to change anything I do though.
These attacks tend to stiffen my resolve. After Orlando last year, I volunteered to work at Pride for London - just so that I could do my bit.
Today's events only make me want to do something positive.
As for plato and notme trying to use it to score political points, a little bit of restraint for 24 hours or so might be good, from any political viewpoint whatever. There's a time for political jibes, and a time to have a short pause.
Fair point.
Though Ken Livingstone is on LBC now blaming Boris for winding down community policing. Which he helpfully pointed out he introduced and Khan is reintroducing.
A woman has been pulled ALIVE from the River Thames
Apparently she deliberately dived in, off the bridge, to escape the car
That's a miraculous escape. The fall alone should kill you.
Bridge jumping is apparently one of the nastiest ways to go - your legs are busted and pushed into your torso. Hopefully, the lady isn't terribly injured.
We once had a speaker at my Rotary Club who was a parachutist whose chute didn't open, yet he lived to tell the tale.
He was asked what was the last thing that went through his mind. I immediately piped up "His feet!"
I saw a docu with someone who'd jumped - they totally busted their legs on impact, had hips pushed up and couldn't do anything to save themselves once they realised they weren't dead.
Ended up washed onto river bank - said hitting the water was like meeting freezing cold concrete.
I bet the docu was about a bridge much higher than Westminster Bridge. This is 10 mins from where I grew up, and a comparable height above the water (nothing bad happens in the vid). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0uijJZGrE
I start a new job 200m from Parliament Square next Monday. Buggered if these murderous fucksticks are going to change anything I do though.
These attacks tend to stiffen my resolve. After Orlando last year, I volunteered to work at Pride for London - just so that I could do my bit.
Today's events only make me want to do something positive.
Good for you!! I suspect some of the motivation for the attacks is to 'stiffen resolve' across the West, rather than force a capitulation. They're after a holy war which they think they are preordained to win.
The news networks here are covering this wall-to-wall. It looks like an impressive and highly competent police response.
I have to say those rinky dink little police vehicles look a bit comical though. But at least they're better than diesel Astras.
I've a lot of USA followers on Twitter and they're all appalled/thinking its very close to home for them.
I still haven't processed this yet - it's too surreal. The death of a police officer is particularly sad - Tobias Elwood is the man of today who tried to save him. He's a dual British American citizen.
I have never had occasion to look at the Channel 4 news website before, but I see that it doesn't mention the Westminster event at all. Their main story is about Martin McGuinness...
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Also, I'm beginning to wonder about my propensity to end up in places which have recently been attacked:
- I got a job in Holborn which started a few weeks ofter 7/7 (I could see Russell Square from my window)
- I had a business meeting actually at Brussels Airport 5 days after last year's attack
- I start a new job 200m from Parliament Square next Monday. Buggered if these murderous fucksticks are going to change anything I do though.
Boris the honey monster wouldnt have been off the screens for the last 2 hours
I have to say those rinky dink little police vehicles look a bit comical though. But at least they're better than diesel Astras.
Today's events only make me want to do something positive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0uijJZGrE
I still haven't processed this yet - it's too surreal. The death of a police officer is particularly sad - Tobias Elwood is the man of today who tried to save him. He's a dual British American citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Ellwood
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