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Subject: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Ireland Date: 02 Nov 02 - 02:17 PM I'll probably get yapped at for mentioning this but any way. My wife is at work and some brave ass hole has decided to leave a lorry outside a petrol station he was seen walking away from the vehicle. The PSNI are now examining the lorry as they think it contains a bomb, my wife and other workers cannot evacuate as the area is jammed with traffic,law abiding people out shopping are now at risk of being murdered. Police and soldiers are putting their lives at risk to protect us all, some poor person will have to try to defuse the device, if there is one, hopefully not. Needless to say I'm worried for my wife and others safety, does this do any thing to promote peace in N.Ireland as usual its the innocent who are at risk and once again we all feel the anguish and fear. The thread prefix says it all,it really is BS that we have to go through this again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,David M Date: 02 Nov 02 - 02:34 PM Where in NI are you located Ireland, and where is the lorry located exactly? From your/your wife's description of the scene, it appears as if it is in a city centre? Which one? This is truly terrible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Eire32 Date: 02 Nov 02 - 02:34 PM Dear Ireland, I am very sorry you and your wife are having to go through this right now. I agree that things are just racheting up more and more in Belfast and the lack of action to quell the violence coming from the loyalists is going to explode in a far more dangerous way than it has been for the last year. The constant attacks on the residents of Short Strand, the girls at Holy Cross, the attacks that go uninvestigated, none of this inaction by the police is helping and the political climate (the suspension) is just lending this type of "bravado" to the thugs that have been edging towards this all along. It amazes me that when there is even a hint of suspicion that a nationalist might be involved the police exhaust themselves to find the culprits, but when they have names and photos of loyalists that are committing these acts there are no arrests. Very strange. My prayers and good luck to you and your wife. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Ireland Date: 02 Nov 02 - 02:39 PM Lisburn PCworld roundabout,the lorry is at the Prentice petrol station. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Ireland Date: 02 Nov 02 - 02:47 PM eire 32, I'm not interested in cheap point scoring, the fact is some hero no matter what colour has put the lives of people at risk, I do not appreciate your attacking the police at this point when they are out putting their lives at risk trying to contain the situation. Your comments at this time are very offensive and better made at a later time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,David M Date: 02 Nov 02 - 02:57 PM Ireland, does your wife work at PC World then? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Ireland Date: 02 Nov 02 - 03:09 PM My wife works around that area, why do you want to know? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST Date: 02 Nov 02 - 03:19 PM Because I didn't recognize the roundabout by the name "PC World roundabout" which is how I read what you wrote above. If it is the roundabout in Lisburn I'm familiar with, I know it as the Sprucefield/M1 roundabout, so I thought perhaps you meant that your wife worked at PC World on the Sprucefield roundabout. Do locals refer to the Sprucefield roundabout as the PC World roundabout? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,David M Date: 02 Nov 02 - 03:22 PM Blast it! Sorry, above was me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Ireland Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:15 PM Sorry your right,I was just worried and could not remember the name of the place if you know what I mean. Thankfully my wife is home and others are too, apparently the bomb squad are checking things out with the robot, my wife heard two small bangs, maybe trying to open the lorry doors. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:26 PM What no music query yet, c`mon leave it to the PSNI to sort this out, and please a music thread, thats what this Sites all about, allegdely. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Big Tim Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:26 PM Ireland, I think you're for real. Hang in there, with your wife. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,David M Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:31 PM I'm from Chicago, but my mother's people are from Lurgan, and we have relatives there. I'm listening to Radio Ulster right now, but I haven't heard any news reports of this incident yet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha. Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:40 PM Had a look at the news BBC Northern Ireland are the only Station to report that a Lorry has been left at the Sprucefield Roundabout. This is by no mean uncommon, the Nationalists Short Strand has been day and daily been under attack from the end of the so-called ceasefire, and it has become so commonplace that seldom if ever it makes the News. So David M worry not, as Lurgan at the moment is being blasted by a force 9 gale accompanied by lashings of rain, we will survive. Ard Mhacha |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:55 PM Thanks putting this all in proper perspective Ard Mhacha, and Ireland, I'm glad your wife is safe, and hope she wasn't terribly inconvienced by the traffic jams. And Ireland--considering the alarmist nature of your posts, could it be possible that just because someone parked a lorry in Lurgan and walked away from it, that Saturday shoppers in Lurgan might not be at risk of being murdered at all, and that you may be guilty of sounding an hysteria alarm? I mean, if I thought MY loved ones were in harms way, I wouldn't be posting about it here in Mudcat as it was happening. You do like to stir the mud up about the North, don't you Ireland? You might want to take a page from Ard Mhacha's book of Mudcat etiquette on discussing the Troubles here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,David M Date: 02 Nov 02 - 04:57 PM Sorry, me again. Back to lurking now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Big Tim Date: 02 Nov 02 - 05:28 PM {Uncompromising}Guest: go back to fucking sleep. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha Date: 03 Nov 02 - 02:23 AM Just had another look at this mornings TV NEWS nothing to report, the BBC Northern Ireland News had dropped it, and my local Sunday papers had nothing on it. The arrest of another 6 Loyalists with a car loaded with weapons, was reported. Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Big Tim Date: 03 Nov 02 - 06:11 AM Guest; sorry about the language used in my last post. I'd had a few drinks last night and got a bit carried away. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: Ireland Date: 03 Nov 02 - 09:42 AM What are you trying to say Ard I should not have been worried? I remember being in Lurgan one night where some volunteers decided to chop down a telegraph pole so it would fall across the railway lines. These two brave men managed to get themselves stuck under the pole when it fell,boy did we laugh that night,that did not make the news either. I was in Lurgan one night just up from the railway station,when firemen were trying to put out a blazing building started by some volunteers, just happened to be a protestant business, which employed Catholics. The good citizens came out that night and among them the ass holes that attacked the fire fighters, sending two to hospital,we had to stand and protect the firemen from the very people that the fire threatened most. The fire made the news not the attacks nor the fact the firemen had to be protected. Just because it is not news worthy does not diminish the threat the incident poses. One good thing six less terrorists running about and more weapons to be put beyond use. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Bombs in N.I. From: The Pooka Date: 03 Nov 02 - 10:36 AM Very glad all is well, Ireland -- with this particular incident I mean, obviously. Gentlemen, may I gently note that over here in the States (uh-oh, now I'm askin' for it ain't I?), where we do have our own Troubles also in case you hadn't noticed (yeah yeah, sure sure, we're askin' for it with our fascist imperialist War Against the World, we know, skip it fellers), when a suspiciously-parked or -driven truck or van (as we like to call lorries) is observed, people are quite supportive of its being given a nice little once-over by the authorities. Including the usually-innocent driver, owner, etc., who if (s)he has any brains, knows it's for the protection of all. Uncompromising Big Tim, not to worry. They're askin' for it ain't they? Have another one boyo, and just spell it "fookin'". That sortof Decommissions it y'see. :) Ireland, re the 6 Loyalist para goons arrested - "One good thing six less terrorists running about and more weapons to be put beyond use." *Right on, man*. Back to the H-Blocks with the whole bloody lot of 'em sez I. "Another-Man's-Freedom-Fighters", please note. Your cause -- *our* cause, dammit!! -- is just. But murder is murder. We need to flip the equation. Peace is a precondition of Justice. Without peace, nothing can be fairly done. Nothing. |