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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.
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.
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.