The Register: Beavis and Butthead in London jihad
Oh, the Piccadilly fireball would have blown the car’s windows out, and popped its doors open, and sent various bits like mirrors and so forth into the air at velocities possibly fatal to people nearby. It would have looked really cool, that’s for sure. But an explosive event…a detonation? Not in a million years. Sorry lads: you failed car bombing 101; you did not attend a single lecture; you did not even open the textbook.
Some stupid people did a stupid thing. Yes, they might have injured or killed one or two passers-by, but any body count would have come in spite of them, not as a product of their efforts. You and I are more likely to have been killed accidentally by the lousy driver than intentionally by his Beavis and Butthead car bomb.
(Via Tim)
Posted on June 30th, 2007 at 12:45pm under Chicken Nuggets, T.W.A.T., The home front
As it happens I was once knocked unconscious and was examined in Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital by two medical students who were the closest thing to Beavis and Butthead I’ve ever met in real life. Or maybe looking at my head just makes people snicker, though actually finding the patient’s head was almost beyond these lads.
Did the car contain any orange pips?
Who’s playing who here? Blair or Brown?
[...] badly throught-through the attacks were and the very limited damage they were likely to cause (via Chickyog). That indicates this wasn’t some worldwide coordinated attack planned meticulously for [...]
We must thank our government for dumbing down the science curriculum to a bunch of mult-choice questions about global warming. Awarding marks for incorrect answers is another cunning way of keeping the terrists essentially harmless. Long term outlook for the knowledge economy isn’t good though.