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

 

[west didsblue]

The footage seemed to show that a lot of the main blast for the first tenth of a second went through the rear nearside window which possibly reduced the explosive pressure within the vehicle enough to save the driver. He was very lucky.

 

[DrBlueBob]

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

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

:-)

 

[SWP's back]

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

I certainly do, it’s because they’re in nearly all our homes and we traverse them without fear several times a day.

 

[west didsblue]

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.

Unless you live in a bungalow.

 

[paulchapo]

The footage seemed to show that a lot of the main blast for the first tenth of a second went through the rear nearside window which possibly reduced the explosive pressure within the vehicle enough to save the driver. He was very lucky.

They seem to think that only the detonaters exploded and not the explosive material like in the failed tube terrorist attack in 2007.

 

[Scottyboi]

One of his family members has confirmed it went off with him inside and he's extremely lucky to somehow escape the car as it engulfed in flames. They are playing down the hero element.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

They seem to think that only the detonaters exploded and not the explosive material like in the failed tube terrorist attack in 2007.

Some detonator if that's the case. More likely to be a partial detonation if anything.

 

[west didsblue]

They seem to think that only the detonaters exploded and not the explosive material like in the failed tube terrorist attack in 2007.

That seems quite likely. The vehicles parked nearby looked unscathed so although it looked dramatic, in actual fact the explosive force was thankfully not too great.

 

[ganganvince]

Unless you live in a bungalow.

With a cellar?

 

[nellyonthewing]

If the offender turns out to be a Liverpool fan Merseyside Police will say it was the engine backfiring.