Manchester Bombing *** Please remain respectful and refrain from antagonising posts ***

[Thekwango]

Guys... is the quibbling really necessary?

Just report both of them. This goes on between the pair of them in virtually every thread they both pop up in.

 

[Housey]

Some news sources suggest a bomb at Victoria metro station is where the bomb squad are heading

 

[Mynight]

He sounds pretty good for someone having been thrown 30ft through some doors . Surely the force required for that would hospitalise someone .

Can't even imagine what all these families are going through right now .

 

[Shampoo]

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[ScoTTyBEEE]

There's probably some government department furiously thinking about how to inform the British public a load of children have been blown up without everyone going mad.

 

[adolf hamster]

Someone else saying explosion

I really hate to be that guy, but he sounds surprisingly calm for someone who's supposedly been through what he says happened.

Although i say that not knowing his back story, could be ex army and seen this sort of thing before for all we know

 

[Neil79]

I wish they would stop talking about the ******* balloons on the news.....it was an explosion.

In one of the videos, you can hear someone shout " It's just a Balloon ", while everyone else is running

 

[wannabedamned]

Facebook is terrible when this sort of thing happens, The bull that people spout.

I've already seen people blaming religion and nail bombs.

 

[Robbo]

I really hate to be that guy, but he sounds surprisingly calm for someone who's supposedly been through what he says happened

I was thinking the same. 30 feet?!

 

[iamtheoneneo]

There's probably some government department furiously thinking about how to inform the British public a load of children have been blown up without everyone going mad.

more like thinking on how to protect us even further by taking away our privacy...because it really stops the lone wolf operators of course.

 

[Thekwango]

There's probably some government department furiously thinking about how to inform the British public a load of children have been blown up without everyone going mad.

Yup. Calm heads will be needed in the days ahead.

 

[robfosters]

If it is a bomb, how the hell did they get it in? I thought all bags and things were thoroughly checked?

 

[kindai]

Who mentioned flames, pressurised canisters are very dangerous and can explode. As I said probably not, but a big canister could cause serious injury and death. Certainly more dangerous than a speaker.

For a pressurized tank like that to explode would require a catastrophic event to occur first to rupture the tank. The safety standards compressed gas containers must meet are insane.

 

[Aedus]

I really hate to be that guy, but he sounds surprisingly calm for someone who's supposedly been through what he says happened

True, but it could be shock.

Everything reported should be taken with lots of salt until anything is confirmed, just keeping up to date with what I see on Reddit

 

[KiNgPiN83]

I wish they would stop talking about the ******* balloons on the news.....it was an explosion.

Now to just find out what type of bomb explosion it was

The problem is it sounds like both. i.e. if the explosion appears to have occurred by the main entrance/exit but if you are in the main arena it isn't going to be as obvious as it will be more muffled and all they seem to have in there according to the videos I've seen is balloons and speakers so for those guys at least, that's what they may think occurred??

Everyone leaving that place will have a story about what they saw and believe happened but they would have all been in different places so the story isn't necessarily that easy to piece together without looking at all the info afterwards and building a timeline of events. We will know far more in the morning i think.

 

[dowie]

You are trolling because that's not got anything to do with the initial post you started trolling me on. LMAO.

Once again he wanted to know why armed response was there, and it's because there was an explosion, which most people became aware of because explosions generally make a massive bang. And then this explosion and or bangs are what have been reported to police, which is why they have responded with armed officers.

Please go away troll. You keep forgetting the actual point.

Asim I'm not interested in getting involved in your usual nonsense "troll, LMAO" etc.., I'm not trolling I've merely commented on a post and you've now reacted in your usual manner - grow up. This is a serious incident and frankly if you're going to go off on one of your rants calling me a 'troll' etc.. then don't bother replying to my post as this thread doesn't need to be sidetracked with that sort of crap.

 

[Aedus]

If it is a bomb, how the hell did they get it in? I thought all bags and things were thoroughly checked?

They said no-one was checking bags for some reason.

 

[mattyg]

I was thinking the same. 30 feet?!

Chances are he doesn't know how far 30foot is.

 

[SS-89]

I really hate to be that guy, but he sounds surprisingly calm for someone who's supposedly been through what he says happened

Could be in shock (been documented before that some people are overtly calm after a traumatic experience). Saying that could also be someone who wanted some air time.

 

[gavinh87]

Facebook is terrible when this sort of thing happens, The bull that people spout.

I've already seen people blaming religion and nail bombs.

It's what most are thinking/fearing. It was the first thing that came to my mind.