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Old 07-10-2017, 17:20   #1
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Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

Several people have been injured after a car hit pedestrians near the Natural History Museum in London, police say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41538762

Lets hope everybody will be okay.
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Old 07-10-2017, 21:11   #2
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Re: Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

Thankfully not terrorism related it seems with no serious injuries.
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Old 08-10-2017, 14:32   #3
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Re: Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

wAY TOO MANY POLICE IN lONDON.
DID YOU SEE HOW MANY POLICE THERE WERE?
THEY SHOULD SPREAD SOME OF THEM TO OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

SORRY ABOUT CAPS I WAS SHOUTING AT SOMEBODY IN ANOTHER FORUM.
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Re: Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

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Thankfully not terrorism related it seems with no serious injuries.
I do think news companies should stop treating any incident that might be terrorist related with such force if the circumstances are otherwise unremarkable. Yesterday this car crash was broadcast across the world. Nigel Farage was straight on Fox News to vent about the danger of living in London, Katie Hopkins was telling tourists (well any tourist sad enough to read her Twitter) that's it's unsafe to come, news channels were broadcasting BREAKING NEWS. It was a traffic incident and people did the terrorists job for them, spreading fear and terror, without them needing to do anything.

An act of violence committed with terrorist intent does add an additional dimension to it but I am not convinced it adds so much more to turn a relatively common crime/accident to an international news story.

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Re: Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

Having darker skin, and having a car accident like this, is becoming scary. The driver was obviously bleeding, but he was forcibly held down until the police arrived.

Better safe than sorry perhaps, but civil-rights lawyers will be queuing at his door I suspect.
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Re: Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

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I do think news companies should stop treating any incident that might be terrorist related with such force if the circumstances are otherwise unremarkable. Yesterday this car crash was broadcast across the world. Nigel Farage was straight on Fox News to vent about the danger of living in London, Katie Hopkins was telling tourists (well any tourist sad enough to read her Twitter) that's it's unsafe to come, news channels were broadcasting BREAKING NEWS. It was a traffic incident and people did the terrorists job for them, spreading fear and terror, without them needing to do anything.

An act of violence committed with terrorist intent does add an additional dimension to it but I am not convinced it adds so much more to turn a relatively common crime/accident to an international news story.
I agree and have said this many time before. The media has no interest in playing anything down, quite the reverse in fact since they need to fill their pages and airtime with something - true/accurate/reliable or not. What we're seeing increasingly is the media tending towards the lowest common denominator and having a direct interest in reporting and sensationalising stuff before any facts are known, whether it be incidents such as this or the hearsay surrounding our politicians. I'm increasingly finding the clamour for a 'story' to be as unedifying as it is unprofessional.

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Re: Car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum

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I do think news companies should stop treating any incident that might be terrorist related with such force if the circumstances are otherwise unremarkable. Yesterday this car crash was broadcast across the world. Nigel Farage was straight on Fox News to vent about the danger of living in London, Katie Hopkins was telling tourists (well any tourist sad enough to read her Twitter) that's it's unsafe to come, news channels were broadcasting BREAKING NEWS. It was a traffic incident and people did the terrorists job for them, spreading fear and terror, without them needing to do anything.

An act of violence committed with terrorist intent does add an additional dimension to it but I am not convinced it adds so much more to turn a relatively common crime/accident to an international news story.
I agree with you to an extent but here we had a car running into and injuring 10+ people outside of a likely terrorist target so it would be headline news whether terrorist related or not.

If this had happened at a bustop in Bolton then, I agree, we would have wanted a different media response.
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