After spending a day in London, Beloved and I were heading home, spending the next hour on the rickety-clackety old trains that traverse the grid that lines the city. We'd just been having lunch in Leicester Square, specifically, the Burger King that overlooks the square. We sat on the bar stools and watched the numerous unmarked vans and taxi's roll by. Anybody could have driven in. We watched them conduct their business, couriers and delivery boys alike.
We eventually led ourselves back towards home. Despite being under the biggest terror threat since 9/11, the city still conducts itself just like normal. London is being bombarded by the media, telling us all that the sky is falling and that mysterious cloaked men are all out to kill us. Out to kill us in the most painful and torturous way possible.
On the way home, on the London Underground, I read the Underground newspaper, "Metro".
"Terrorist Alert Error!"
Oh here we go again, says I. Another foiled plot?
In it, were the detailed plans of a so-called terrorist who had ambitions to blow up a major London venue to kingdom come. The site specifically listed in the article was none other than the Leicester Square Burger King. Cue worried glances between Beloved and myself. Not only was the plan laid out in front of us in bold courier font, but the article also listed how the suspect had escaped capture by luring the police into the biggest radio-free zone in the city: The London Underground.
You see, police radios seem to have difficulty transmitting while they're 200m underground.
That thought scares the living shit out of me. I don't want to be here the day the terrorists use that idea to their advantage. Nuh-uh.
Today's plot was believed to involve detonating a combination of explosive and a chemical called osmium tetroxide, unleashed on the London Underground. Such an attack is both chilling and thought numbing in the imagined effects it would have on the city. Such an attack would cause devastation along the lines of the WW2 blitzkrieg.
I think I want to move to the middle of Australia where the biggest terrorists are the redback spiders.
