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Originally Posted by Chris T
And so on the one hand we have a preoccupied ambulance crew attending to a load of drunk clubbers staggering out of Tiger Tiger at 2am but still with enough spare wits to spot something wrong with the first car ... while on the other hand we have some jobsworth council traffic 'warden' who lifted the car onto the back of his lorry without at any point thinking there was anything strange about all the cans of petrol and gas loaded into it.  |
Well it is still early days yet and we don't know whether the second car's contents were clearly visible or not. Having said that I think quite a few people wouldn't necessarily associate petrol cans and gas cannisters with potential bombs - most people I've talked to about this don't seem to appreciate the explosive potential of gas cannisters. Although the good news is that many more people will now do just that, it wouldn't be hard for a budding terrorist to cover up the contents of any such vehicle or just use something like a van.
It'll be interesting to find out why these devices didn't go off - was it a technical problem of did something else happen which prevented them being detonated?