Marco Vicente Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 what is a 'power surge' and how can it blow up a bus? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouncerboy13 Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bliss Seeker: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by oafcmetty: Hmmm - pretty worried, sat in my big glass office in the middle of the city... Keep the news coming please! </div></BLOCKQUOTE> yea same here </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Watch for planes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMaddick Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Marco Vicente: what is a 'power surge' and how can it blow up a bus? </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Power surge is where a huge amount of power is forced through the line very quickly due to some sort of fault It can't blow up a bus, that could have been a bomb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMaddick Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Union sources say that at least one explosive device was on the underground It sounds certain that a bus has had it's top ripped off by a bus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dying Dougs Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Aslan: maybe the IRA. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> you still living in the 80's? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMaddick Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by FMaddick: Union sources say that at least one explosive device was on the underground It sounds certain that a bus has had it's top ripped off by a bus </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Obviously a bus has had it's top taken off by a bomb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
defusion Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 It sounds more serious than first thought, this still dont know the exact cause but are not ruling out "foul play" (CNN). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFCfan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 King's cross, liverpool street, edgeware road, aldgate All reported to have explosions Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Vicente Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by FMaddick: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Marco Vicente: what is a 'power surge' and how can it blow up a bus? </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Power surge is where a huge amount of power is forced through the line very quickly due to some sort of fault It can't blow up a bus, that could have been a bomb </div></BLOCKQUOTE> thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMaddick Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 What happens to the people stuck in tunnels? Can you just walk down the line once they turn them ofF? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouncerboy13 Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Defusion starts a bomb thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wycombe Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 how exciting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjburrage Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 ITV, C4 have just had news flashes. ITV carrying on coverage. Nothing on the BBC1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Vicente Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 seems like a terrorist thing but they usually attack at the same time, so I don't thing more incidentes would follow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
defusion Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> SURVIVORS DESCRIBE EXPLOSIONS Passengers involved in the Metropolitan Line explosion are reported to have attempted to smash the windows of their Tube carriages with umbrellas in an attempt to escape. Another witness told Sky News there was an explosion at the back of a Tube carriage and he had seen bodies. Police are thought to have been sent into tunnels to evacuate people along the tracks. Bradley Anderson told Sky News that he was involved in the Edgware Road incident on a Circle line train. He said: "We just left Paddington station. About 15 seconds later there was some kind of explosion and we collided with another train. "We were heading into the station when there was some kind of explosion or something. "Everything went black and we collided into some kind of oncoming train. "There was debris all over the trains. They evacuated us." Clare Benson, 33, a city banker from Kensington, was on a tube at Edware Road when she heard a massive explosion in the tunnel behind her. It was about 8.40am. "I was in the last carriage at the back of the train nearest the tunnel when I heard a huge bang - you could feel it. "The lights went off for a couple of minutes and people were scared and wondering what to do. "The drivers got out and were looking into the tunnel, then they announced that we should evacuate. "My ears are still ringing and I was shaking." One witess told Sky there was an explosion at the back of a tube carriage. "There was a big hole in the carriage. There were people lying everywhere covered in blood," he said. "People were screaming. We could not get out. "The explosion was at the back of the carriage." He said people managed to walk through the carriages to get out. He said there was "bodies lying everywhere". </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMaddick Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 They reckon it could have been one bomb, went off and then power surged down the line, blew up the next station etc. The bloke says it's unlikely they'd attack the line and not the people though Clever to attack the power not people? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Tull Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 One person in the office was on an overland train that experienced a power surge this morning... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyM Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 It has to be an attack - day after the olymic vote, guard is down, attention is on London, main attack in the city area (9/11?), and at a peak time IIRC not too different a time to when the New York and Madrid attacks occured. Power Surge my ass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFCfan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 It would cause major disruptions for weeks. It can cause large economic side-effects. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjburrage Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 The Tavistock Square incident seems to definetly be a bomb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Found at least one device Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCranker Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavinho Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 sounds like a coordinated terrorist attack. well played LU closing down the Tube. remember we've got G8 at the mo too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.O.V.I Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 scotlan yard confirm explosions Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Stud Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Blast at Marylebone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 So ... ? 5 explosions or what ? Power surge or what ? Did a bus blow up ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
defusion Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 There has been at least one explosion on a bus as a eye witness saw the bus with the roof blown off, so this power surge information really cant be true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazup Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Bin has blown up apparently in Russell Square Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFCfan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 There were reports of an explosive device spotted at an underground station. It appears that the explosion caused power surges down the line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by H.O.V.I: scotland yard confirm explosions </div></BLOCKQUOTE> glad to hear they are on the ball this morning explosions! really hadn't heard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMaddick Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 I reckon maybe one bomb on the bus and one bomb on the bus Bloody hell, union sources say seperate explosions on 3 different buses Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigson Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by gavinho: sounds like a coordinated terrorist attack. well played LU closing down the Tube. remember we've got G8 at the mo too. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Edinburgh iirc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Stud Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 3 buses have been blown up according to Sky Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicambol Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Just got out of the tube at Edgware Road. I think i was in the train after the one that collided with another at Edgware Road. I was more ****ed off at being late for work. Some people still aren't in. I sincerely hope this isn't a bomb or sabotage of some kind. Was crapping myself in the tunnels btw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavnoble Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Reports of explosions on three buses now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigson Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by wazup: Bin has blown up apparently in Russell Square </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Laden? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericcantona7 Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by FMaddick: They reckon it could have been one bomb, went off and then power surged down the line, blew up the next station etc. The bloke says it's unlikely they'd attack the line and not the people though Clever to attack the power not people? </div></BLOCKQUOTE> depends on their aims, if they want to do damage and not kill then yes, but we know Al Quieda's aims are to kill if they can, and who else is there? sounds more like IRA style bombing, but I highly doubt it's them. I'm watching news 24, sounds like bombings to me, if you're going to bomb somewhere, you bomb the underground, and if you bomb anytime you bomb rush hour while the G8 is in the country and they've just been awarded the olympics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjburrage Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 There is a confusion of statements. Seems to be fatalities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFCfan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 poor joke Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Vicente Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 any casualties reported? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wycombe Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 3 spererate buses bombed according to early reports Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCranker Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by zigson: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by gavinho: sounds like a coordinated terrorist attack. well played LU closing down the Tube. remember we've got G8 at the mo too. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Edinburgh iirc. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Foreigners seem to think London and Britain are pretty much the same thing though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigson Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ericcantona7: if you bomb anytime you bomb rush hour while the G8 is in the country and they've just been awarded the olympics. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> The timing of the olympics is irrelevant surely. You think they'd have called off an attack if the decision had gone to Paris? G8 is in Scotland btw. I think they're at Gleneagles this morning, or was that yesterday? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjburrage Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by gavnoble: Reports of explosions on three buses now... </div></BLOCKQUOTE> That seems to be because the same bomb has 3 different locations - Tavistock Square, Tavistock Place and Russell Square which are all next to each other. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MD Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Well its not a power surge say the electricity people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Vicente Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 something's not right. it seems a very light attack for al-qaeda. I hope nothing bigger will follow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dying Dougs Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ericcantona7: sounds more like IRA style bombing, but I highly doubt it's them. . </div></BLOCKQUOTE> i seriously doubt that its the IRA, they finished there campaign of bombing england in the 80's or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotg Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by zigson: G8 is in Scotland btw. I think they're at Gleneagles this morning, or was that yesterday? </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, they are. As is a massive police presence. If you were going to plan this thing, you'd do it when the police were otherwise occupied. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cockney Cobbler Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Aw feck man. All looks a bit more than just a power surge now doesn't it. Going to be a nightmare outside but funnily enough people still seem to be heading in to work and all that. Stiff upper lip chaps. Be nice if people can keep us posted on here as the news sites are crawling and phone networks are jammed in London right now as you might imagine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslan Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Dougs: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Aslan: maybe the IRA. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> you still living in the 80's? </div></BLOCKQUOTE> No, i've moved to Sarcasticville, Tennessee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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