SamNichols
New Member
- Location
- Colne, Lancs
Due to some family issues, I am currently at home.
Anyway, to cut to the long and the short of it: today I was searched by the police under the terrorism act (it's not the first time, by the way, it's the second). Anyway at first I was bemused as I witnessed, for no apparent reason, a police officer rummaging through my undies and toiletries. Then, as the train wandered from Manchester to Watford, I started to feel a bit strange.
Firstly: what is the efficacy of the system? It's basically a more formal equivalent of yelling: 'is anyone a terrorist?'
Secondly: what would they do if they actually found a bomb? It's not as if two random members of the British Transport Police are particularly well qualified to take down a terrorist.
It just strikes me as really pointless.
On the plus side:
1) I now have a pink slip to suggest that I am, at least at the moment, not a terrorist.
2) On the slip it lists my build as 'slim'. Checked at home and I've lost over a stone over the last 2 months. Woo.
Anyway, to cut to the long and the short of it: today I was searched by the police under the terrorism act (it's not the first time, by the way, it's the second). Anyway at first I was bemused as I witnessed, for no apparent reason, a police officer rummaging through my undies and toiletries. Then, as the train wandered from Manchester to Watford, I started to feel a bit strange.
Firstly: what is the efficacy of the system? It's basically a more formal equivalent of yelling: 'is anyone a terrorist?'
Secondly: what would they do if they actually found a bomb? It's not as if two random members of the British Transport Police are particularly well qualified to take down a terrorist.
It just strikes me as really pointless.
On the plus side:
1) I now have a pink slip to suggest that I am, at least at the moment, not a terrorist.
2) On the slip it lists my build as 'slim'. Checked at home and I've lost over a stone over the last 2 months. Woo.