[AnotherAmerican]

Originally Posted by PDLM

Just to put this in perspective, anyone you know in the UK is about 100 times more likely to die in a normal land transport accident this year as to have been involved in this incident.

But one is the result of bad luck. The other is a result "indiscriminate hatred."

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by AnotherAmerican

But one is the result of bad luck. The other is a result "indiscriminate hatred."

Why does that matter? When you're dead, you're dead.

[nivantj]

Originally Posted by PDLM

Why does that matter? When you're dead, you're dead.

Strange!!!.. Accidents and assassinations are equal!!! Well then, those died in WTC were somehow supposed to die one day and those dying in Iraq too... Cause matters a lot..

[KnowItAll]

>> Why does that matter? When you're dead, you're dead.

PDLM, obviously you don't have anyone in life that you care about or cares about you.

[goodfood]

Happened to be in London and found myself in the thick of everything yesterday. I'm staying at the International Hall near the Russell Sq tube station, just metres away from the bus explosion at Woburn Place/Travistock. Also King's Cross station - which is badly affected - is pretty close. And a few major hospitals behind us, so the scene all around yesterday was chaotic. We weren't allowed out of the building for a greater part of the morning so sat glued to the TV and the internet. Saw ambulances and police cars whizzing past our window every few minutes.

Managed to get out in the evening and found most roads closed and barricaded as crime scenes. Thousands of commuters were walking home as the transport network was shut down. People were thronging the pubs not so much to drink beer but to watch the news on TV. King's Cross station was barricaded from miles away. Saw the double-decker bus in a dreadful ripped-apart condition.

This was an insane, terrible act, right in the heart of London. But the city is slowly getting back to normal this morning with limited operation of tubes and buses. The London Emergency Response team has done an incredible job.

[Anne]

@PDLM
aren't statistics comforting (!) either you come from somewhere so ridiculously dangerous that you are inured to collective tragedy, or a backwater so unimportant that you can be completely blase about the possibility of attack...
funnily, normally I don't have to worry about hundreds of friends and acquaintances possibly being murdered or intentionally injured on the way to work!
nuff said.

[jaykay]

Today has been a kinda surreal experience for a lot of Londoners here like myself. After seeing the news last night I was trying to phone my family and friends to make sure no-one was involved. Luckily no family involved, although one friend was injured and will hopefully leave hospital today. I'm still waiting to hear back from a couple of people.

Although my heart has dropped at the news I also feel great pride in the way the people involved handled the whole situation. Whatever these terrorists tried to do they failed. I'm no great fan of Ken Livingstone but for once he spoke for us all.

[PDLM]

Anne,

I lived and worked in London for 10 years of my life; I missed the IRA bomb in the Sussex by a couple of days. Jaykay's second paragraph summed it up. I'm not blase, but I'm not going to let the terroists win by letting this affect my life in any significant way.

[kombuchakid]

The minute London won I was on the phone to my friend there to congratulate him, and he insisted on putting us up for the duration of the games in the mansion he is planning to get by 2012.
24 hours later it took many attempts to finally reach him , thankfully safe and sound, but mad as hell at the carnage; but not I think as pissed of as this fellow

http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php