Car hits pedestrians outside Natural History Museum
Source: The Guardian
Several people have been injured after a car reportedly drive into people outside Londons Natural History Museum.
Scotland Yard said a number of pedestrians have been injured in an incident in Exhibition Road in South Kensington shortly after 2.20pm on Saturday.
A Metropolitan police spokesman said: Officers are on scene, and the London ambulance service have been called. A man has been arrested at the scene.
More details soon
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/07/car-hits-pedestrians-outside-natural-history-museum
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Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Make it stop.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I'm surprised we haven't been able to both invent warp drive AND bring Jesus back to Earth.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)they can't give any thought towards anything else. They must conserve their thoughts of course. Same with prayers
ret5hd
(20,564 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,418 posts)which is right across the street from the Natural History Museum--one Saturday in
January 2016-- when we were in London. My husband had gone off on his own day trip.
I was amazed at the number of families--people with little children and babies/toddlers in strollers--that were
waiting in line to gain entrance to the Natural History Museum.
There could have been a lot of small children who might have been victims if this was indeed a terrorist attack.
Orrex
(63,291 posts)"Cars are as dangerous as guns. If we get rid of guns, people will use cars."
Three... Two...
christx30
(6,241 posts)Before guns, we had swords. Before swords, we had rocks. Take away guns, you'll have knives, cars, fertilizer explosives. Guns just make the killing easier for the murderers. Because guns are not the problem. Humanity is the problem.
It's never going to end. I believe after the apocalypse, there is going to be a time where there are just 2 people left in the world. And one of them is going to kill the other.
sarisataka
(18,926 posts)and is why focusing solely on guns is myopic. If nothing is done to address the causes, the means simply shifts to other weapons.
Why acid attacks are on the rise in Britain
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/27/acid-attacks-rise-united-kingdom/100739780/
Lokilooney
(322 posts)Hangingon
(3,071 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)I'm anti-humanity. I honestly don't care about guns. Gather each of them up and put them in a huge fire. Throw them out into space. Make possessing one punishable by death. Sounds good to me.
Someone's going to pick up a sharp rock and split the skull of another person. Murder will never go away. It'll just take a little more skill.
Coventina
(27,224 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)who should be ignored. As can be seen by them retweeting Tommy Robinson, or the approving tweet of "Romanian patriots destroy Muslim call to prayer in opera by singing national anthem" (a few Romanians in an audience tried to sing their national anthem, extremely tunelessly, over a section of a choral work, written in 2000, that features a Muslim call to prayer). Look at their Twitter page, and it suggests you follow Tommy Robinson, a far right English agitator, or Paul Joseph Watson, the British employee of Infowars. Best not to give them any links.
From the BBC:
The Metropolitan Police said one person had been detained following the incident at 14:20 BST in Exhibition Road in South Kensington.
Video footage that emerged on Twitter showed a man being restrained on the ground.
A BBC reporter at the scene said she had been told by police that the injuries were minor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41538762
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)A car mounted the pavement outside the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, at 14:20 BST.
The Metropolitan Police earlier said one person had been arrested and video footage that emerged on Twitter showed a man being restrained on the ground.
An update from the force said the incident was now being treated as "a road traffic collision".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41538762
Denzil_DC
(7,290 posts)Link to tweet
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The moment accident happened Farage was on Fox talking up terrorists and talking down Britain. A complete shower #Quitling #SouthKensington
Nigel Farage ✔ @Nigel_Farage
We have 3,000 suspected terrorists living in the UK & 23,000 people known to security services who could do us harm.
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Life comes at you fast @KTHopkins pic.twitter.com/m5hsas4nyv
Otto English @Otto_English
In one hour this afternoon @KTHopkins sent nine inflammatory tweets about a terror attack at #NaturalHistoryMuseum then deleted the lot pic.twitter.com/QWEKYviZws
It looks like it was an Uber cab, which is raising all sorts of other issues.
JI7
(89,289 posts)hoping it was some minority or liberal .