Wimbledon station commuters flee train in 'Bible' panic

[vetran]

spooter you are a sad twunt!

[scooterscot]

fear is the real enemy, insults the forfeit of a lost argument

[glebe digital]

It isn't funny, anyone extemporizing religious hoohah on public transport is clearly deranged already, and could just as easily be about to press a button that poofs everyone in the vicinity. I'm surprised he wasn't clubbed senseless TBH.

[chopper]

I've seen bigger flames on my uncle's pipe:

The photo you see is taken after the event. It shows a few flames in a bucket which didn't even appear to burn the bloody plastic bag it was in.

However, the device was significantly larger than the device which killed 22 at Manchester Arena. The shrapnel wasn't just a few screws and nails, the device was also surrounded by knives. Had that detonated properly, it would have been devastating on that carriage.

As it was, the device failed to detonate, but that doesn't mean there was just a minor fire in a bucket. There was a flash fire, a wall of flame. Severe enough to injure 30 people, injuries ranging from singed hair and missing eyebrows to a woman who remains in hospital with life changing burn injuries. There are still people in hospital even now from the Manchester Arena attack, it doesn't bear thinking of just how bad it would have been had this device gone off properly.

So to compare Parson's Green to your uncle's pipe is rather unfair to the victims, don't you think?

[SueEllen]

Honestly, has there ever been so many attempts to jump on the bandwagon to look self righteous.

Panicing costs lives. There's nothing wrong with saying that you numpties. The story today could easily have been hundreds decapitated on the 6:22am to Euston.

Dumbass

[SueEllen]

fear is the real enemy, insults the forfeit of a lost argument

Feckwit

[NotAllThere]

Maybe they thought he was quoting from another book.

[WTFH]

Maybe they thought he was quoting from another book.

Poetry by Kipling?

[NigelJK]

Have a read of Nicks Monday post about the Estonia it has some very real insights to how panic kills people, but it also shows up how human nature can take over, as those traits which would get you interred for a very long time in normal circumstances are also some of those that would mean you survive a disaster.

[northernladyuk]

Have a read of Nicks Monday post about the Estonia it has some very real insights to how panic kills people, but it also shows up how human nature can take over, as those traits which would get you interred for a very long time in normal circumstances are also some of those that would mean you survive a disaster.

Panic first.