Incident outside parliament in london - developing now

MookJong said:
All major high streets and events now have crash barriers to remind you daily that there are people amongst us that want to kill us. I grew up without these barriers, all threats of this kind were existential. I want to see them removed one day, sadly that is never going to happen. I can only see things get worse not better.
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I live in Chelmsford, and they pedestrianised the town centre in the early 90's and it has bollards that lower for service vehicles since day dot. I think that was originally to stop ram-raids but has the benefit of stopping loonies in cars as well.

Other than an ever so slight (but sensible) inconvenience (liquids on flights) I can't say my life has massively been changed by terrorism since I was a child in the 80's.

The IRA were bombing people regularly back then so we've all grown up with it in one way or another.
 
MookJong said:
All major high streets and events now have crash barriers to remind you daily that there are people amongst us that want to kill us. I grew up without these barriers, all threats of this kind were existential. I want to see them removed one day, sadly that is never going to happen. I can only see things get worse not better.
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They call them Merkel legos in Germany.

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VincentHanna said:
The IRA were bombing people regularly back then so we've all grown up with it in one way or another.
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I remember in the 80s a fair few times getting into Waterloo station and there being announcements about bomb scares or checks, etc. or having to remain on the train for an hour or so due to an IRA related security operation, etc.
 
Rroff said:
I remember in the 80s a fair few times getting into Waterloo station and there being announcements about bomb scares or checks, etc. or having to remain on the train for an hour or so due to an IRA related security operation, etc.
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The IRA was very different, they were an organised group targeting the British establishment. Most of the time the scare was just a scare. They weren't rabbid Zealots targeting random civilians over religion.
 
Nasher said:
The IRA was very different, they were an organised group targeting the British establishment. Most of the time the scare was just a scare. They weren't rabbid Zealots targeting random civilians over religion.
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Eh?

What IRA are you talking about? The one that plagued the UK for decades specifically targeted civilians all the time, and religion was a chief motivator in the violence.
 
wolfie138 said:
overreaction much?
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It's better to overreact to a terrorist attack than under react, the fact so few people have been hurt and there was a surplus of medical staff reporting to the scene is a good thing.

Compare that to Manchester where people died because the was an under-reaction, I'm sure most people would prefer the "over"-reaction.
 
ubersonic said:
It's better to overreact to a terrorist attack than under react, the fact so few people have been hurt and there was a surplus of medical staff reporting to the scene is a good thing.

Compare that to Manchester where people died because the was an under-reaction, I'm sure most people would prefer the "over"-reaction.
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It wasn't an under-reaction, more that the chief fire officers weren't letting medics nearby because they were sticking to "rules"

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ent-in-london-developing-now.18828243/page-10
 
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