Police withdrawn for own safety

[NorthernRaider]

[Devonian]

When I saw this on the news late last night, my gut feeling was that they had received intelligence about extremists possibly wanting to carry out another beheading of a Solider/Policeman.

But as you say, no one knows where this could be going and it could easily spill out onto the streets affecting any of us....

[bigpaul]

stay out of city centres because that is where it will happen for maximum effect= terrorism is all about the terror bit.

[Devonian]

stay out of city centres because that is where it will happen for maximum effect= terrorism is all about the terror bit.

But there again if they did it in the provinces, surely that would an ever bigger terror effect as no one would feel safe anywhere in the country, plus they would stand a better chance of escaping....

[NorthernRaider]

Yup theres nowt to stop them hitting an out of town Mall or Liesure or Tourist site , hmmm food for thought.

[bigpaul]

yes but they do it for the maximum effect that's why they do it in the cities, no point in doing it in a village or small town with low population numbers, what would be the point? I think its very telling that the current threat is in the West Midlands .

[NorthernRaider]

What makes me think more on this is how the government, NFU and Police say that thanks to concerted efforts by the police, government anti crime initiatives, the huge increase of CCTV systems in towns and cities that many criminals are changing to doing ONLINE crime and RURAL crime, So if town centres are getting to hot from crinimals it could be to hot for nasty terrorist rotters and they could seek easier targets...................... Oh my god the Jam Butty mines and Nutty Slack works, or even Alberts Donkey skinning works could be next !!!! . Seriously though I don't think any of us on this little island can afford to be even slightly complacent any more.

[bigpaul]

nobody said anything about being complacent, anybody who has spent any time living in a city knows about "watching your back" and being situationally aware, these days you probably wouldn't last long in a city if you didn't.

[Devonian]

yes but they do it for the maximum effect that's why they do it in the cities, no point in doing it in a village or small town with low population numbers, what would be the point? I think its very telling that the current threat is in the West Midlands .

But surely if they attacked someone Cheshire or Market Drayton or Northampton or some Oxfordshire Market Town, then the shock would be equally as great, but then the people living outside of the Cities (as well as those inside) would be thinking this could literally happen anywhere........

[bigpaul]

i'll tell you where an attack is most likely and that's Wootton Basset where the coffins used to come through, now an attack there would be just the sort of place these people would pick for that very reason.

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I suppose in theory it could happen anywhere even my back end of nowhere but there isn't much we can do about it apart from being aware of what is going on around us, mind you the smaller the place the more any stranger is going to stick out like a sore thumb.