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Ben Clarke
06-30-2007, 04:31 PM
Just went downstairs to start cooking dinner, and news was on. Apparantly, Glasgow airport had a car on fire driven into it, where it blew up. It's on BBC news 24 now if you live in the UK. What do you reckon? Coincidence or linked to the two bombs found in London yesterday?

No wonder Englands terror alert level is at Critical...
HookeyStreet
06-30-2007, 04:40 PM
Just went downstairs to start cooking dinner, and news was on. Apparantly, Glasgow airport had a car on fire driven into it, where it blew up. It's on BBC news 24 now if you live in the UK. What do you reckon? Coincidence or linked to the two bombs found in London yesterday?

No wonder Englands terror alert level is at Critical...

No way m8! Thats f*cked up! Im gonna have a look on the TV now :(

Its not a good time to be British or American :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm
hat
06-30-2007, 04:53 PM
Hm, I just saw a nuke fly past the window...
I hope that never happens.
Ripper3
06-30-2007, 04:56 PM
Urgh, definately not a good time to be in Britain... even worse, I've planned on going down to Earl's Court later with some mates, think I might just cancel.
Ben Clarke
06-30-2007, 05:00 PM
Turns out 2 blokes got out the car and put petrol over it to ignite it. Police have arrested 4 people, and eyewitnesses say it was terrorist, and police have confirmwed they're treating it as terrorist activity... and apparantly as wel as the 2 yesterday, they're investigating another 3 today :(

EDIT: Hookey, that's the one.

EIDT 2:
Taxi driver Ian Crosby said: "This was no accident. This was a deliberate attack on Glasgow Airport."

:(
HookeyStreet
06-30-2007, 05:00 PM
Urgh, definately not a good time to be in Britain... even worse, I've planned on going down to Earl's Court later with some mates, think I might just cancel.

I would cancel m8! They say that should carry on as normal...but you cant carry on as normal when your f*cking blown to pieces by some scumbag!
Ben Clarke
06-30-2007, 05:04 PM
News made a mistake, 2 people arested, not 4.

Times like this, I don't feel safe knowing I'm going to be in an airport in 6 weeks time. Damn terrorists.
Ripper3
06-30-2007, 05:13 PM
I wish that gun laws were changed. Not much a gun can do against a car bomb, but it would certainly make people feel a little safer being armed. I know I certainly would.

Either way, I just hope these attacks stop, I'm going to be in the same situation as you in about 4 weeks, Ben, going to be in an airport thinking "Please don't blow up, please don't blow up!"
ex_reven
06-30-2007, 05:17 PM
I wish that gun laws were changed. Not much a gun can do against a car bomb, but it would certainly make people feel a little safer being armed. I know I certainly would.

Either way, I just hope these attacks stop, I'm going to be in the same situation as you in about 4 weeks, Ben, going to be in an airport thinking "Please don't blow up, please don't blow up!"

The safest time to be at an airport is in the wake of a planned/attempted terrorist attack. You have more chance of being hit by a bus at the terminal than you do getting killed in an attack.
HookeyStreet
06-30-2007, 05:20 PM
I wish that gun laws were changed. Not much a gun can do against a car bomb, but it would certainly make people feel a little safer being armed. I know I certainly would.

Either way, I just hope these attacks stop, I'm going to be in the same situation as you in about 4 weeks, Ben, going to be in an airport thinking "Please don't blow up, please don't blow up!"

Dont be crazy m8, do you want the UK to end up like the US?!?!
Ben Clarke
06-30-2007, 05:21 PM
The safest time to be at an airport is in the wake of a planned/attempted terrorist attack. You have more chance of being hit by a bus at the terminal than you do getting killed in an attack.


Right... I'd rather not have either happen.

And I agree on the gun thing... that way if your'e in the air and someone jumps up with a bomb on them, at least you have a chance of shooting them before they detonate it....
W1zzard
06-30-2007, 05:31 PM
Right... I'd rather not have either happen.

And I agree on the gun thing... that way if your'e in the air and someone jumps up with a bomb on them, at least you have a chance of shooting them before they detonate it....

yeah like you are trained to handle a firearm in such a situation
HookeyStreet
06-30-2007, 05:31 PM
Right... I'd rather not have either happen.

And I agree on the gun thing... that way if your'e in the air and someone jumps up with a bomb on them, at least you have a chance of shooting them before they detonate it....

I hope your joking?!?!? You cant fire a gun on a plane!!!!! (due to cabin pressure etc)
Ben Clarke
06-30-2007, 05:43 PM
Oh yeah, did'nt think of that... I thought planes had bullet-proof windows though?

And W1z, I did'nt mean myself... I meant like security guards or the guys who bring round the food.
wazzledoozle
07-01-2007, 02:46 AM
A bullet hole in the side of a plane wont do much. All you would have to do is seal it with something sturdy. The mythbusters did a thing on rapid decompression of a plane and found that the shell of the plane does not explosively decompress in the event of a hole being punched through it.
kwchang007
07-01-2007, 03:56 AM
The safest time to be at an airport is in the wake of a planned/attempted terrorist attack. You have more chance of being hit by a bus at the terminal than you do getting killed in an attack.

yeahhhh that's what i felt like when i was riding the metro in paris, so little security, like most mass tranist :shadedshu
nora.e
07-01-2007, 04:29 AM
I hope your joking?!?!? You cant fire a gun on a plane!!!!! (due to cabin pressure etc)

The holes made by discharging a firearm inside a plane are not going to do anything to the cabbin preasure. That's a wives tale, and is completely not true.
I feel for ya though with the goings on in the UK the past couple of days. I've been following it on the BBC network. (I'm a short wave junkie).