Terrorism arrests on my doorstep (almost)
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DungeonmasterCal
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I just want to live in a place named "Tooting".
Sorry... my inner Beavis took over...
Seriously... these are troubled times we live in. I think we better get used to seeing more and more of this sort of thing.
Sorry... my inner Beavis took over...
Seriously... these are troubled times we live in. I think we better get used to seeing more and more of this sort of thing.
Goblyns Hoard
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S'mon - glad to hear you're OK and sorry to hear that Tooting is such a focus in current events. I'm glad that I moved when I did - I haven't used a tube since though I've no reason to believe that the trains won't be considered a target soon. Hope you and Ingrid (I hope I've remembered your wife's name correctly) are doing well and don't get too stressed by everything going on around you.
For everyone else - I used to live about 10 minutes bike ride from S'mon and played a couple of games at his house. That area of London does have a large proportion of muslims and so was always likely to be an area under scrutiny because of what's happened recently. I read the original post and started thinking "which take away is that?" because I probably used to walk past it on my daily commute through Tooting Broadway and it's given me the creeps reading about it. I also walk past where the first bus bomb went off and where one of the tube bombs in the second attack failed to go off on my current commute. Like S'mon I lived with IRA car bombs as a child (in Germany when the IRA was targetting British forces abroad not in the heat of Northern Ireland where S'mon grew up). The point I'm trying to make - I can say that it is very different seeing something on TV and walking past the remnants the day after.
I think S'mon was just expressing his concern and wanting to let everyone know about his current feelings - similar to some of the posts we get around here from new parents, bereaved friends, recent graduates or home movers.
Dragging critiques of his meanings or intentions is not called for... a friendly pat on the back and a 'hope things go well for you in the coming weeks' is.
For everyone else - I used to live about 10 minutes bike ride from S'mon and played a couple of games at his house. That area of London does have a large proportion of muslims and so was always likely to be an area under scrutiny because of what's happened recently. I read the original post and started thinking "which take away is that?" because I probably used to walk past it on my daily commute through Tooting Broadway and it's given me the creeps reading about it. I also walk past where the first bus bomb went off and where one of the tube bombs in the second attack failed to go off on my current commute. Like S'mon I lived with IRA car bombs as a child (in Germany when the IRA was targetting British forces abroad not in the heat of Northern Ireland where S'mon grew up). The point I'm trying to make - I can say that it is very different seeing something on TV and walking past the remnants the day after.
I think S'mon was just expressing his concern and wanting to let everyone know about his current feelings - similar to some of the posts we get around here from new parents, bereaved friends, recent graduates or home movers.
Dragging critiques of his meanings or intentions is not called for... a friendly pat on the back and a 'hope things go well for you in the coming weeks' is.
DungeonmasterCal
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Goblyns Hoard said:
Agreed.
Queen_Dopplepopolis
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Double agreed!DungeonmasterCal said:
S'mon - you and your wife are in my thoughts and prayers.
Zander
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Some of you guys have been a pretty hard on poor old S'mon. I'm pretty sure that he understands the concept of innocent until proven guilty (he's a professor of law) and that he didn't mean to be prejudiced.
I want to wish S'mon, Ingrid (Mrs S'mon) and all the Londoners on ENWorld all the best during these troubled times. I know I'm nervous: I have to travel on the Underground into the West End of London today, i.e. a Thursday - the day of the week on which most Al Qaeda attacks occur. :\
I want to wish S'mon, Ingrid (Mrs S'mon) and all the Londoners on ENWorld all the best during these troubled times. I know I'm nervous: I have to travel on the Underground into the West End of London today, i.e. a Thursday - the day of the week on which most Al Qaeda attacks occur. :\
There's a report from The Times here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1711729,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1711729,00.html
Thanks Goblyns Hoard, Zander (I agree, they were hard on poor old S'mon) 
and all other well-wishers, I feel rather better now. 
diaglo
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S'mon said:Sorry - just to be clear, your post read like you were high on cannabis.
yeah, that too.
my point was even in my short time on this planet... well not that short but i like to think i'm still young at heart... Londoners have known terrorism. and the British Army in general. starting with their occupation of Israel following WWII. and then their continued war against the IRA.
but in that time, well it wasn't like they... shot someone 8 times for jumping a fare... well maybe they did, but i wasn't reading about it or seeing it on the News in the colonies like this.
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