The Brit officials are really downplaying this one — heard a quote on FNC that they blew up the car out of an abundance of caution....
I’m probably a bit naive about these things, but, to my way of thinking, blowing up a car is a bit more drastic than an ‘abundance of caution’....
More here than meets the eye??
blowing up a car is a bit more drastic than an ‘abundance of caution’....More here than meets the eye??
Hopefully, it is the way the British cops etc have decided to counter the false and dangerous complacence that has infected media and much of the populace....IOW the more “incidents” in quick succession, the better......
“The Brit officials are really downplaying this one — heard a quote on FNC that they blew up the car out of an abundance of caution....
I’m probably a bit naive about these things, but, to my way of thinking, blowing up a car is a bit more drastic than an ‘abundance of caution’....
More here than meets the eye??”
Not sure if American law enforcement approach things differently to ours here, but a controlled explosion of a potential threat is not at all unusual, especially at times of high alert. I was in a traffic jam approaching the Severn Bridge last week while the motorway was closed whle police blew up a suspcious package.
This is nothing new, I remember getting into conversation with some rather distraught American tourists at Victoria Station about 20 years ago who, straight from the plane at Heathrow, had left their cases and went off to get something to eat. By the time they returned their luggage had been exploded.
A controlled explosion of a car is when they put a small detonator on the explosive payload in the car and blow it in place. It is too dangerous to try to defuse the explosive in the car as a trigger can be placed inside the blocks of explosives themselves. Removing the explosives will detonate them.
The small charge will not destroy the car, at best, blow out the windows. If the goes up with a big bang, it was a car bomb. I have heard several trigger charges go off and they sound like a shotgun blast.