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[odycee]

Strange day eh? I've just been speaking to my friend who lives and works in London. She's fine, though she's had to walk home. She was saying it was very bizarre there this afternoon. Helicopters, police horses, police sirens, people milling around, shops shut. I think at where she works people were most upset about the shops being shut and not being able to get any lunch!

It's all been handled very well by the emergency services. They're prepared for it in London (and everywhere else here) - there's been no shortage of bombs in the past. And they were only just starting to put plastic dustbin bags back in train stations!

But what a pointless attack. What will a bomb or two do to us? How's terrorism in Britain ever intimidated us before? It's been a horrible, horrible thing but everything will still carry on as normal. G8 will carry on. Nothing will change, London won't change.

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[niennah.livejournal.com]

Nothing will change, London won't change.

That's true. London is more prepared now than New York was four years ago. And London has dealt with similar before.

I had no idea you didn't have bins in train stations there.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

London and the people that live there have survived a lot worse than this over the years. I know most people will be going about their everyday business as much as they can be tomorrow.

I think we discovered a while ago that bins in train stations are a little bit too convenient for dropping bombs into! Then again, so are post boxes, and cars and bags and ...