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The city centre of my beloved Manchester is today under high alert, after Birmingham was evacuated yesterday. Piccadilly Station is closed due to bomb scare yesterday. :roll: 

If you read carefully, the city was evacuated. The only explosions were controlled explosions.Gareth Hale said:I really hope my family are safe :cry:
yorkie said:The problem is they now know they only have to say there's a bomb somewhere for the whole area to be evacuated.![]()
It would be nice to believe we wont change our way of life, but unfortunately it's already happening.
If city centres are evacuated on a regular basis it will seriously harm our economy.
If railway stations are evacuated on a regular basis people will switch to road transport.
I do fear for the future.![]()
people are just taking the mick out of thisyorkie said:The problem is they now know they only have to say there's a bomb somewhere for the whole area to be evacuated.![]()
It would be nice to believe we wont change our way of life, but unfortunately it's already happening.
If city centres are evacuated on a regular basis it will seriously harm our economy.
If railway stations are evacuated on a regular basis people will switch to road transport.
I do fear for the future.![]()
1288gaje said:people are just taking the mick out of thisyorkie said:The problem is they now know they only have to say there's a bomb somewhere for the whole area to be evacuated.![]()
It would be nice to believe we wont change our way of life, but unfortunately it's already happening.
If city centres are evacuated on a regular basis it will seriously harm our economy.
If railway stations are evacuated on a regular basis people will switch to road transport.
I do fear for the future.![]()
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Even if the terrorists don't warn of an attack, one of the many items of luggage left unattended each day will inevitably spark a further scare.RichardH said:I doubt it will come to that, actually, I very much doubt it will come to that! There's a 0.000001% chance of that happening. Terrorists don't strike every week or month, sometimes not even years. Not if, but WHEN Binladen is caught, I think this may shudder to an abrupt hault.![]()
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I agree on the first point. (Although I think such people are often mentally ill).jdan said:I think that people who call the emergency services to tell them theres a bomb should get treated under a "you-think-you're-a-terrorist-then-we'll-treat-you-like-you're-a-terrorist" policy. Ditto people who leave bags unattended.