{"id":189,"date":"2005-07-30T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:52:31","slug":"going-through-the-motions-london-bombing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/07\/going-through-the-motions-london-bombing-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Going Through the Motions: London Bombing Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
Everyone is getting fed up. Yesterday we had to stay in the building because someone left a bag lying around the railway station. The day before we were evacuated from the building because someone left a bag lying around the railway station. A friend of mine asked a policeman what everyone was doing standing around outside and he all but yelled at her, “Because someone left a bloody bag lying around the railway station!”<\/div>\n
The police are getting really good at getting lots of people in and out of buildings. The bomb squad’s methods are state-of-the-art too: they told me yesterday they suspected the discarded bag was a bomb because “it felt heavy when we picked it up.”<\/div>\n
So they’ve taken away what few bins they’d put back<\/a> (for “bins”, read “transparent plastic bags”) in around the station a few years ago, “for security reasons.” I thought we were dealing with suicide bombers so <\/em>I’m guessing MI5 has information that Al’Qaida<\/s> Al-Qaeda<\/s> the terrorists have recruited Oscar the Grouch, or else that this move is for show.<\/div>\n
Despite all this, everyone’s still happy to leave black bin liners full of crap lying around on the pavements<\/a> for days on end.<\/div>\n
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Around Euston I spotted another gaggle of police armed with clipboards accosting pedestrians. My heart sank as I assumed things had gotten so desperate that the Metropolitan Police had resorted to the tactics of the Socialist Alliance and were asking concerned citizens to Stop The Bombs – Sign The Petition, but it turned out they were asking if we had been out on the street “about this time last week.” I hadn’t, but luckily I didn’t panic and sprint into a Tube station like some people are prone to do.<\/div>\n
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Spare a thought for the bombings’ silent victims: the terrorists’ landlords<\/a>. How do you let the houses whose previous tenants blew themselves up on public transport? Once the police have finished with them, that is.<\/div>\n
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“For an organisations [sic]<\/em> that struggles to get any local press coverage, we have suddenly been approached by just about every national newspaper,” he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

One positive side effect: if it weren’t for the bombs I would never have known that the Australian prime minister was in town, dominating the world stage in his usual inimtable manner<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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1413:<\/strong> Prime Minister Tony Blair postpones a vist to a school in east London and a photo call with visiting Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, a spokesman says. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can anyone tell me if he pretended to have a real reason to be here this time around, other than watch cricket?<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, I was going to make fun of the failed bomber who was photographed making his getaway waiting for a train at a Tube station<\/em>, a few minutes after he’s brought the entire transport system to a standstill. But then they arrested him in Rome, when his mates didn’t make it further than Notting Hill, so I guess some suicide bombers put more thought into their escape plans than I’d credited.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone is getting fed up. Yesterday we had to stay in the building because someone left a bag lying around the railway station. The day before we were evacuated from the building because someone left a bag lying around the railway station. A friend of mine asked a policeman what everyone was doing standing around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}