doubleplus ungood

[rm]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050723/ap_on_re_eu/britain_underground

Well shit. If it turns out this guy had nothing to do with the two London attack days and wasn't up to anything that day either and it's just all some big mistaken identity (increasingly likely, although it depends when you look at the constantly edited news stories on the web) thing in a place where the cops usually don't even have guns -- well that's going to change the dialogue in a really weird way.

This is not your mother's dystopian future.

Holy shit.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Er, that was me, sorry.... this computer is weird.

[folk.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but for Britain, it has been Hot and Muggy recently -- 70s+ and really humid. Not that I want to say anything on this, because I am part horrified and partly think that the police dealt with this as best they could, but still...

[rm.livejournal.com]

But they were in plains clothes and cops there rarely carry guns. Is there any reason that someone would actually believe they were police in that situation?

[folk.livejournal.com]

The thing is, nobody carries a gun in the UK unless they are (a) police or (b) a terrorist/criminal/IRA member. My default reaction to people waving guns at me would be to raise my fucking hands -- not to vault a Tube ticket turnstile, run down escalators and on to a Tube train, especially not in this bloody climate.

[rahalia-cat.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree. That guy had something to hide; he was hardly a fare dodger :o\

[rm.livejournal.com]

You would think, but maybe not:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1535246,00.html