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Post by paulbearer on Apr 7, 2017 12:24:53 GMT -5
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Apr 7, 2017 12:42:53 GMT -5
F***ing Hell. I don't even know what to say any more. Just f*** these guys. I can't believe there's even so many of them left when they're so eager to die for their "cause".
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Post by paulbearer on Apr 7, 2017 12:59:32 GMT -5
Some people ran into shopping malls to avoid the speeding truck and prolly escaped death by a mere second......they really ought to put up more concrete blocks.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 7, 2017 13:13:18 GMT -5
Arsehole.
I have £50 on the next few days involving ISIS claiming the attack, evidence coming out that it has nothing to do with them, and noone paying attention to that last part, and the cycle continues.
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Post by Sparvid on Apr 7, 2017 13:13:39 GMT -5
Some people ran into shopping malls to avoid the speeding truck and prolly escaped death by a mere second......they really ought to put up more concrete blocks. One eye witness reported that a concrete block was jammed underneath the front of the truck. |
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Apr 7, 2017 13:14:45 GMT -5
You know, the Monster Raving Loony party here, it's joke defense proposal was to build a 1 foot high wall around the country, so any invaders would trip over.
A variation on this is now a legitimate anti terror tactic.
It's literally beyond parody now.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 7, 2017 13:44:44 GMT -5
It's an effective tactic for terrorist attacks. Pedestrianising city centres and adding barriers and bollards is a possible option to deal with it, but then it makes it difficult for city centre stores to get restocked, and even those measures might not stop someone who is intent on causing death and injury.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Apr 7, 2017 13:58:33 GMT -5
Terrorists are really annoying.
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Post by paulbearer on Apr 7, 2017 15:05:00 GMT -5
It was a soda truck and it seems the driver forgot the keys in the ignition so it appears it was a spontaneous act by the terrorist and not planned in advance. 4 dead now  There were some concrete lions he ran over but they were in no way strong enough against his speeding truck. It's possible it has nothing to do with ISIS , just a mental case. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 7, 2017 15:33:34 GMT -5
As I said after the London attack, IS don't need to do much. They know that they can inspire nutters to carry out independent attacks. Al-Qaeda did something similar, but unlike IS, Al-Qaeda were not stupid enough to try and carve out a state out of existing countries. Al-Qaeda's approach was to remain invisible and carry out attacks to destablise regions, provoke responses, and generally keep their enemies off balance. The IRA had a similar problem back in the day, when some within their ranks tried to actually create patches of territory cordoned off in Northern Ireland as little enclaves.
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Post by Big Poppa Pumpkin on Apr 7, 2017 17:53:48 GMT -5
Shit day. Hope the loser that did this is haunted by it for the rest of his miserable life.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Apr 7, 2017 19:13:25 GMT -5
A friend of mine on another site I go to witnessed the entire thing. He's fine now but needless to say he's pretty shaken up by it.
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Post by Sparvid on Apr 7, 2017 22:32:26 GMT -5
It's an effective tactic for terrorist attacks. Pedestrianising city centres and adding barriers and bollards is a possible option to deal with it, but then it makes it difficult for city centre stores to get restocked, and even those measures might not stop someone who is intent on causing death and injury. And closing off large areas completely would probably not make rescue services very pleased. |
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Post by paulbearer on Apr 8, 2017 4:00:56 GMT -5
Seems it wasn't a lone wolf attack like I had thought , prolly they wanted to blow up the subway but for some reason it didn't work out ?
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 8, 2017 14:04:07 GMT -5
It's an effective tactic for terrorist attacks. Pedestrianising city centres and adding barriers and bollards is a possible option to deal with it, but then it makes it difficult for city centre stores to get restocked, and even those measures might not stop someone who is intent on causing death and injury. And closing off large areas completely would probably not make rescue services very pleased. Not to mention that causing inconvenience is usually a major secondary goal with terrorists. One of Al Qaeda's plots began with someone saying "I bet we can get everyone taking their shoes off", and another one was that guy who implanted plastic explosives and tried to detonate them with an injection which led to the full body scanners. |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 8, 2017 16:00:23 GMT -5
F***ing Hell. I don't even know what to say any more. Just f*** these guys. I can't believe there's even so many of them left when they're so eager to die for their "cause". And for every one of them, there are thousands who will stand up to them and tell them to f*** off. |
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Post by paulbearer on Apr 10, 2017 4:05:20 GMT -5
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