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Anti-terrorist police evacuated Parliament Square and carried out a controlled explosion on Nima Hosseini Razi's dark blue Ford Mondeo after he abandoned it just yards from the House of Commons and Westminster Abbey.
Mr Razi inspects the damage caused to his Ford Mondeo by the controlled explosion
Originally posted by Unity_99
Woke up to these extreme bend over and kiss your freedom loving as$ goodbye responses, and wondered if I'd had a bad timeline change during the night or something.
Originally posted by butcherguy
Hmmmm.
Police find 'suspicious' car parked outside of the Parliament.
'What should we do?'
'It may be a car bomb!'
'Correct, let's blow it up.'
Am I wrong in thinking that this may have been a stupid move?
ETA: This reminded me of a Monty Python skit.edit on 14-6-2012 by butcherguy because: To add.
Originally posted by EvillerBob
Originally posted by butcherguy
Hmmmm.
Police find 'suspicious' car parked outside of the Parliament.
'What should we do?'
'It may be a car bomb!'
'Correct, let's blow it up.'
Am I wrong in thinking that this may have been a stupid move?
ETA: This reminded me of a Monty Python skit.edit on 14-6-2012 by butcherguy because: To add.
Sounds about right. The school I went to more than 20 years ago was close to military barracks. They had "no parking" zones clearly marked out around the outer perimeter fences. If a car was parked there then it was destroyed by controlled explosion.
This isn't a new thing, nor is it confined to London. The UK has a long history of being bombed; this stuff is taken seriously and no quarter is given.
Originally posted by 0010110011101
reply to post by butcherguy
The key word here is "Controlled". They dont just wire up a fuse and see what happens funnily enough!!!
en.wikipedia.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
The above is from your link.
A controlled explosion is a method for detonating or disabling a suspected explosive device. Methods which are used to set off a controlled explosion include emptying out the area and moving the package (with the aid of robots) into a confined space such as a telephone booth. Another classic method of controlled explosion is to place the bomb in a skip and fill it with sand before detonating it with a self-incendiary device or a fuse. Controlled explosions are becoming quite common in the UK, especially in the South East where, because there is a lot of development, unexploded World War II bombs are often found by construction diggers[citation needed].