Liverpool terror attack

[M18CTID]

He didn’t, you can see that from the video. Thankfully he got very lucky though.

I'm not sure we can ascertain that from the video - we can't exactly see what's going on inside the cab.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I'm not sure we can ascertain that from the video - we can't exactly see what's going on inside the cab.

It would have been a hell of a mess. I don't envy the people having to deal with that. Certainly a smell that never leaves you.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Impossible to stop every single attack without destroying every single civil liberty in the country and even then they can’t stop lone wolf attacks.

Let’s face it, you’re 100x more like to die falling down the stairs than you are being killed in a terrorist attack.

Is your new business venture some sort of device for catching people at the bottom of a flight of stairs by any chance?

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

confirmed terror attack

 

[BobKowalski]

It doesn't help when people in official positions say things like this (from bbc.co.uk) ...

"Joanne Anderson, the mayor of Liverpool, confirmed to BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the taxi driver involved prevented an "awful disaster" through heroic actions.
She said it was known he had got out of the car and locked the doors before the explosion happened - but she did not want to get drawn into further speculation."

Think this was the message from police on the scene. It‘s also a good narrative - ‘plucky taxi-driver foils attack’. It works on many levels. It’s immediately reassuring and it will stick with many people irrespective of what comes out later. It also sends a message that if an attack isn’t foiled by the security services, then it will be foiled by the public, so what’s the point in trying.

It also diminishes the people carrying out the attack. The guy dies trapped in the back of a Liverpool mini-cab. It’s almost a punch-line and who wants to die as a punch-line? It undercuts the recruitment message.

 

[Gray]

Can a Taxi driver lock the rear doors independently from the front doors? Suspect the glass screen between him and the rear helped save his life. Hope he is recovering well but fear for his hearing.

 

[dozzie26]

IRA wannabe?

 

[borassic]

Not getting any virgins is he, pathetic attempt!

 

[Craig]

I'm not sure we can ascertain that from the video - we can't exactly see what's going on inside the cab.

Ok, we’ll wait and see what comes out down the line but you can certainly see the device has gone off before the taxi driver gets out.

 

[inchy14]

Impossible to stop every single attack without destroying every single civil liberty in the country and even then they can’t stop lone wolf attacks.

Let’s face it, you’re 100x more like to die falling down the stairs than you are being killed in a terrorist attack.

You love that falling down the stairs stat…. I’m sure you’ve done it on more than one occasion lol