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"Not again?"

3 tube station closed because of "incidents"
Anybody know what's going on, or is it just precaution?

They caught 2 people, apparently, which is why I think there were armed Police at hospital because one of them burnt his fingers. The person at Downing Street turned out to be nothing but a brown person with a rucksack.

I left my bag outside to go in a shop and the train station nearly got evacuated.
Silly, silly me

There's nothing worse than a crap suicide bomber.

This is now genuinely scary. After it had all died down and I was allowed to be selfish again, I thought 'well at least the big attack has been and gone before I move to London', and now this has happened, just two weeks later. Whether or not explosives were meant to go off or this is just scare tactics, it's still a terrifying thought that my friends and I will be riding all sections of the tube every day for two years while these psychos are still out there getting their rocks off.

Someone fill me in - a guy's rucksack exploded, but in a naff, girly way, and he just threw it off and ran away? So there's a good chance he'll be caught, no?

I think my mind would break if I was the bloke next to one of them.
Didn't they capture somebody earlier?

They were trying so hard on the news not to say it, but the description given was "A British citizen of Asian appearance with a beard".

monkey_man wrote:
> So is it going to happen again in another 2 weeks? What a stupid way
> to have to live.

At least everyone would know what day it's coming and could organise their lives accordingly.

Do they know who it is yet?
I was thinking of some kind of copy-cat thing, seeing how similar the attacks were, and how unsuccessful these ones were.

So is it going to happen again in another 2 weeks? What a stupid way to have to live.

monkey_man wrote:
> For anyone not in the know, detonating caps connect to and set off
> larger amounts of explosives, as the name would suggest. Luckily
> they didn't work properly, and apparently there are still unexploded
> bombs on the trains.

Yeah, it's lucky the devices weren't put together correctly, otherwise we could have had a repeat of two weeks ago.

I was actually in London when it happened - having a cup of tea on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament in fact. No-one (like, MPs) seemed that bothered, but it was pretty unclear as to what was going on.

Later on we were in a cafe near one of the stations - didn't know anything was going on at the time, but a policeman came in after a while and told us to stay put. When we came out, the road was all blocked off - not sure which incident it was, thanks to my rubbish knowledge of London, but we just walked past, got on a train at Waterloo and came home.

Fun fun fun.
Only just heard what happened properly