Boy Wander
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What goes on in some people's heads that they think it's appropriate or somehow cool to post such completely stupid things?
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22 dead, 59 injured in Manchester Arena explosion (Being treated as an attack)
- Thread starter E-phonk
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What goes on in some people's heads that they think it's appropriate or somehow cool to post such completely stupid things?
what a fucking sociopath
You Are Viewtiful
Member
I hope those people get out of there safely. As for the rest, RIP. 
Little Old Man
Member
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Stop doing this.
BBC Radio Manchester was reported by some caller as well, sorry don't wish to alarm
EDIT:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....6507/Oldham-hospital-closed-gun-armed-man/amp
Daily Star article up as well, only posting this as precaution for people in area, please be cautious even if Daily Star is shit
Spaced Harrier
Member
Or you could just ignore morons and trolls.
Boy Wander
Member
From BBC:
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit is treating the incident in Manchester as a possible terrorist incident, sources said.
Senior national Counter-Terrorism officers are assembling in London and are liaising with the Home Office.
Early estimates put the number of fatalities in double figures, but these are very early stages.
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit is treating the incident in Manchester as a possible terrorist incident, sources said.
Senior national Counter-Terrorism officers are assembling in London and are liaising with the Home Office.
Early estimates put the number of fatalities in double figures, but these are very early stages.
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
CNN finally decides to cover this.
Crazy and very sad.
TheLionsDen
Member
Why even tweet something like this?
Same. I use this station everytime I go Manchester via train. I was at the station last week.
Simply Sami
Member
Hope David Leavitt is blacklisted by every gaming media. Can't be arsed putting the cunts sick tweet up.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
I've got a tweet that says half of you guys are just spouting a bunch of hot fucking garbage click bait and should shut the fuck up with it until its a confirmed source.
Anyone else get that one?
Anyone else get that one?
FFS. I know him, and that Tweet is disgusting. Fuck him.
Yes, I removed the link to the Tweet because he doesn't deserve the attention for his disgusting and shameful act of uncaring. And so everyone knows...he doesn't work for CBS or any of the sites he links in his Twitter. He contributed to them once or twice.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
yea I got one too!
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
They've been covering it for an hour now though. Like I said before, the only difference is that they were giving intermittent updates on the situation whereas now it will be 10 consecutive hours of panelist musings.
NYCmetsfan
Banned
People are stupid and think they are funny
Audioboxer
Member
If it ends up being a bomb in the entrance to an arena this size it'll probably sadly be quite high. Fucking kids as well. Sadistic. Someone very early in the thread mentioned it is the anniversary of a terrorist attack in the UK today (or technically yesterday now). It's most likely a case of targeting a massive event and probably purposefully choosing to go after kids.
Brexit in full effect...
Why wouldn't they give a shit tho?
Shooter outside of the hospital not true, as expected:
https://twitter.com/OldhamCouncil/s...Update_7b2d7d8a-3f4a-11e7-a04f-0ede4b4c6978/0
Great source mate
God forbid channels like CNN and NBC with not so good or at all local UK contacts have to wait for more info and hired talking heads with contacts so they don't spread false info and bs like some false social media posts.
Kadin
Member
oh Jesus... I really hope that's someone's sick joke and not real.
BBC World News:
This. Second image is showing the stairs many go up from the train station (pictured) to the arena just above.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
So long? It seems very recent with the man that ran some people over with his car.
Yeah, there really should be rules for crisis threads. No random tweets/lack of source. No "they're saying ____" without specifying who "they" is.
Gabriel_Logan
Member
I'm surprised a nail bomb can kill upwards of 20 people.
People need to be responsible with what they post. I'm sure I'm not alone in following this thread in the hope that it'll filter out and not just regurgitate a lot of the worst of social media.
Edit: here's the link to the local newspaper: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-arena-explosion-evacuated-ariana-13075807
Edit: here's the link to the local newspaper: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-arena-explosion-evacuated-ariana-13075807
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I reported and moved on. Let him go into oblivion with little attention
News channel in France basically sleep after midnight. Everyone is gone at that time.
No, do. Screenshot and retweet that shit. The cunt deserves to be jobless.
CaptainRizla
Member
Partner and daughter are back home.
They were there when the explosion went off. Was a huge explosion that set people off running and screaming. They were right near the exit so got out sharpish.
Was noted that bag search wasn't very thorough, with only 1 person per entrance.
They were there when the explosion went off. Was a huge explosion that set people off running and screaming. They were right near the exit so got out sharpish.
Was noted that bag search wasn't very thorough, with only 1 person per entrance.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Some of the injured and dead may be attributable to the crowd panic.
There's an entrance though. That is a prime target area.
Probably most of them, actually.
ElRenoRaven
Member
What a disgusting piece of shit. That is just flat out disgusting on every goddamn level.
Charlie0108
Member
the concert was over, the blast went off as people were leaving, probably not that many people filming then.
Gabriel_Logan
Member
Ok that makes more sense, especially if it was a really packed concert.