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Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« on: November 15, 2021, 10:13:49 AM »
Taxi driver got suspicious about a passenger in his cab heading to a veterans parade and took action. Turned out the guy had a bomb belt on.
Details are fluid at this point.

Edit: Forgot to add. The guy then went boom in the taxi

Taxi Driver Thwarts Attack on Veterans Parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOk5yq-pGP0

Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion declared a terror incident
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-59291095
« Last Edit: November 15, 2021, 11:00:47 AM by WLJ »
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2021, 10:41:33 AM »
Obviously a Trump supporter angry about CRT...
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2021, 10:44:55 AM »
On the ball and brave taxi driver there.
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2021, 11:00:54 AM »
Forgot to add. The guy then went boom in the taxi
« Last Edit: November 15, 2021, 11:19:06 AM by WLJ »
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2021, 11:38:10 AM »
Forgot to add. The guy then went boom in the taxi


Tragic. Just tragic.

What a shame for that poor taxi.
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2021, 12:07:44 PM »
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2021, 12:11:49 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUtE3QlTpKI
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2021, 12:12:50 PM »
On the ball and brave taxi driver there.

Locked the terrorist in the cab against his will?
HAs the driver been charged with kidnapping/false imprisonment yet?
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2021, 12:28:41 PM »
Locked the terrorist in the cab against his will?
HAs the driver been charged with kidnapping/false imprisonment yet?


They're still trying to find enough of the complaintant to make a complaint.
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2021, 12:33:38 PM »
They're still trying to find enough of the complaintant to make a complaint.

Heard he's been seen all over the place
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2021, 01:45:16 PM »
Locked the terrorist in the cab against his will?
HAs the driver been charged with kidnapping/false imprisonment yet?
How about a hate crime for stereotyping?

Too bad the taxi wasn't a Volkswagen.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnL-7x4n4d8&ab_channel=JohannesTripolt

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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2021, 05:42:56 PM »
Did the taxi driver get away safe and sound?
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2021, 06:44:26 PM »
Did the taxi driver get away safe and sound?

I was worried about that too.
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2021, 06:54:25 PM »
I was worried about that too.

I understand that he's alive, but in serious condition in the hospital.
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2021, 07:30:53 PM »
At 0:33 you can see the driver get out of the taxi. Yeah, he was in the taxi when it went off.

Liverpool taxi bomb blast caught on camera shows harrowing scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2mePtHP9E

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Leanne Johnson
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Taxi driver has been discharged today from hospital. He suffered burst eardrums, a back fracture, shrapnel and part of his ear was stitched back on. #Hero #GetWellSoon
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2021, 07:36:22 PM »
Bomber was a refugee from Syria

Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion: Police name suspect killed in blast
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-59298586
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2021, 07:43:46 PM »
Confirmed, he's out of the hospital.
Man needs to go buy a lottery ticket.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital explosion: Taxi driver David Perry 'lucky to be alive'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2mePtHP9E
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2021, 08:23:40 PM »
Bomber was a refugee from Syria

Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion: Police name suspect killed in blast
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-59298586

Unpossible.  Next thing you'll be telling me he was one of that boy lover mohamed's acolytes.
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2021, 10:14:35 PM »
Not much of a bomb.  If the car was a VW, it would have been fine.

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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2021, 09:46:42 AM »
^^ now that’s a funny stupid video…

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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2021, 12:17:35 PM »
^^ now that’s a funny stupid video…
I was waiting for a few more people to post it.   =)
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #21 on: November 16, 2021, 12:19:20 PM »
I was waiting for a few more people to post it.   =)

Three times is enough  :rofl:
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Re: Looks like Britain dodged one yesterday
« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2021, 12:35:20 PM »
I was waiting for a few more people to post it.   =)

Whoops.  In my defense: I'm an idiot.
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