MacB
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But if attacks only ever happened where you would expect them to then they would be failing to create terror amongst the maximum audience.
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But if attacks only ever happened where you would expect them to then they would be failing to create terror amongst the maximum audience.
How many deaths on the tube over the last 10 years form terrorism. How many cycle deaths in the last 10 years.
They are stopping them all of the time.
TwickenhamCyclist
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You were planning to get to the pub for 8:15am???
Racing roadkill
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Attacking Parsons Green, is akin to playing 'flaming sh1t bags' at a remote cottage. Not really very effective.
Racing roadkill
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I wouldn't have been there till midday, if I'd have left my place at about 07:00, only to find I couldn't get to the pub for a Pilsner Urquell, and a scotch egg, the b***tards, stopping me getting my scotch egg. I'm outraged.
MacB
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I didn't say Parsons Green was the target but the clue is in the name, terrorism, if you know it'll never come to you then the terror bit is removed.
TwickenhamCyclist
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[QUOTE 4957648, member: 45"]Nonsense.
The risk of being blown up on the tube is tiny. I'd be interested to know how it compares with the risks associated with cycling in London.
And there is plenty being done.[/QUOTE]
As a regular tube user I am more worried about the real threat of catching a cold or a bug of some inconsiderate tosser who decides to sneeze all over me without covering their face (has happened a few times now) than any sort of attack... I should think if one divides the number of journeys taken by the number of people killed or injured by a terrorist attack on the tube it comes out at a pretty insignificantly low risk...
The risk of being blown up on the tube is tiny. I'd be interested to know how it compares with the risks associated with cycling in London.
And there is plenty being done.[/QUOTE]
As a regular tube user I am more worried about the real threat of catching a cold or a bug of some inconsiderate tosser who decides to sneeze all over me without covering their face (has happened a few times now) than any sort of attack... I should think if one divides the number of journeys taken by the number of people killed or injured by a terrorist attack on the tube it comes out at a pretty insignificantly low risk...
jefmcg
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And you are much more likely to be killed by a car (or a bicycle) walking to or from the tube than you are to die of a terrorist attack on the actual tube.
Tin Pot
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[QUOTE 4957648, member: 45"]Nonsense.
The risk of being blown up on the tube is tiny. I'd be interested to know how it compares with the risks associated with cycling in London.
And there is plenty being done.[/QUOTE]
Well statistics and lies, but here's a partially helpful answer. Ymmv.
125 died while cycling in the UK last year
https://beyondthekerb.org.uk/casebook/cycling-fatalities-2016/
9 died from terrorism in the Uk last year
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain
The risk of being blown up on the tube is tiny. I'd be interested to know how it compares with the risks associated with cycling in London.
And there is plenty being done.[/QUOTE]
Well statistics and lies, but here's a partially helpful answer. Ymmv.
125 died while cycling in the UK last year
https://beyondthekerb.org.uk/casebook/cycling-fatalities-2016/
9 died from terrorism in the Uk last year
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain
No only that, those that did die weren't on the tube. And cycling through London Bridge or Westminster, had your timing been unlucky, would have been more dangerous form terrorists than being on the tube.
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Tin Pot
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Agreed.
But bear in mind hat @User46386 's response is hardly unusual. We are pretty much hard wired to react to perceived threats this way, and elevate threats based on a breach of social rules (e.g. Murder, terrorism) because of our conditioning to conform to society (which is itself a good thing).
It's really hard to abstract risk, and deal with it objectively.
Drago
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Yesterday or tomorrow the risk is probably very low.
However, today, on that train, in that carriage...
One simply can not reasonably gauge the level of risk. This is why the government security level does not usually change until after something has happened.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
When was the last tube attack like this?
How many cyclists have been maimed or killed since that last tube attack.
It's you that is talking nonsense.
Also "They can't stop them ". It's all of our responsibility to be vigilant it's not just down to the Police and security services.
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As such an irregular tube user I was more worried by the fact I had no idea where Parsons Green was or which line it was on.
Actually I didn't even know there was a station called Parsons Green.
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