Mall Closed

bdave262000

Does anyone know whats going on the Mall, its been closed since 5am this morning and lots of police around?

dhope

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13409831

Jay dubbleU

Roads around Northumberland Avenue were also closed while a bag was destroyed in a controlled explosion. The roads have now reopened.

Police said the bag was no longer deemed suspicious. :?:

Kieran_Burns

Whaaa? Mental manhole cover causes security alert?

I dunno, some people don't half over-react :roll:

rick_chasey

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Whaaa? Mental manhole cover causes security alert?

I dunno, some people don't half over-react :roll:

You don't know what they know.

For all we know this could be very similar to something they might be expecting...

TheStone

Rick Chasey wrote:

You don't know what they know.

They know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

(I'm not saying they should ... it's nearly impossible, but wish they'd stop pretending they do)

dhope

Rick Chasey wrote:

You don't know what they know.

For all we know this could be very similar to something they might be expecting...

Hang on, we don't know that they might know that it's almost kind of like a thing they thought might happen, at some point, somewhere.

Sounds like they don't know what they know either.

sketchley

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Roads around Northumberland Avenue were also closed while a bag was destroyed in a controlled explosion. The roads have now reopened.

Police said the bag was no longer deemed suspicious. :?:

I think most things cease to be suspicious once they've been "destroyed in a controlled explosion"

Pufftmw

But if you check the front page of news.bbc.co.uk at this moment, it says

"BREAKING NEWS: Bomb threat warning received relating to central London, Metropolitan Police say, but with no specific location or time"

Perhaps they do?

Pufftmw

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13412871

sketchley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13412871

Bomb warning received in London

"A police statement said officers have been advised to be highly vigilant."

Quite pleased about that, I did think for moment that having received a warning they would simply make a cup of tea and read the paper.

rick_chasey

TheStone wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

You don't know what they know.

They know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

(I'm not saying they should ... it's nearly impossible, but wish they'd stop pretending they do)

A bomb warning has been received relating to central London, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13412871

See :P

kurako

I went past that this morning. The Mall was closed at the Buck Palace end and there were police cars and a cordon. I thought it must have been an accident TBH.

Jay dubbleU

Sketchley wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13412871

Bomb warning received in London

"A police statement said officers have been advised to be highly vigilant."

Quite pleased about that, I did think for moment that having received a warning they would simply make a cup of tea and read the paper.

They drink coffee instead - this makes them highly vigilant

TheStone

Rick Chasey wrote:

See :P

Ahh, maybe.
Doesn't this mean it's the IRA (or whatever the latest version is)?

bails87

"At some time, somewhere in Central London, there may be a bomb". Thanks for the heads up guys!

SimonAH

I was at Imperial in the heart of Embassy Land in the late 80's, it used to be almost weekly for bomb threats for a while.

mroli

Asked a policeman this morning what was going on (he was on a motorbike).

He said "There is an incident. I can't (as in won't) tell you more than that".

Have a feeling he meant: "There is an incident. I can't (as in don't know what on earth is going on) tell you more than that" !