In case PopGAF was worried, Ariana is okay
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https://t.co/RqbWDUmXW8
jesus, talk about fucking priorities
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22 dead, 59 injured in Manchester Arena explosion (Being treated as an attack)
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kaiju
Member
Agreed, no concrete evidence of any injuries so far is a good sign.
Those gunshot sounds in the video is starting to look more like balloons popping, at least I hope.
SomedayTheFire
Member
The police have to treat it as a "serious incident" if there's even 1% chance it was a bomb/terror attack. They would have to deploy anti terrorism measures etc.
She's a person. She's alive. That is a priority either way. Take your cynicism elsewhere.
WhateverItTakes
Banned
Yeah that's what's odd about this.
Hoping it was just some kind of stage/event malfunction with no great damage.
ratcliffja
Member
She's a person too so it's good that she's ok and fine for people to be worried about her well-being. With that said, I hope just as much that everyone else is ok.
Well, a crush caused by panic following a loudspeaker blowing would also be classed as a "serious incident" I think
SomedayTheFire
Member
That too! Definitely looked like there was some form of crush in the twitter video from inside the arena.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
this sounds massive. good to follow the posted rules about twitter until we learn more, though.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
I had just visited Manchester last year
fuck
fuck
Hale-XF11
Member
I've been to one arena concert in my lifetime where a speaker blew and it sounded like a massive bomb going off. This was before 9/11 and most people responded by just looking around before realizing what it was. Unfortunately, I could see how that would cause mass panic nowadays.
So sorry
Weird. Usually this is all over social media 5 minutes after it's happened.
Seems weird there would be so many ambulances and they would shut down the train station for a exploding speaker.
Little Old Man
Member
Hopefully the emergency response was more for precaution, rather than necessity. Stay safe Mancgaf.
The police don't speculate. Whether something nefarious has happened or not they won't use anything other than vague terms until they know with atleast a decent degree of certainty what the 'incident' is.
Especially due to the large number of young fans and parents with young kids there.
No clue what it is though. The police won't say and absolutely nothing has come out at all. it's worth noting that if people think it's a bomb, even if it's a blown speaker, they're going to shut down tubes and deploy anti-terror measures.
"'Reports of blood and people injured'"
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/22/manchester-arena-evacuated-reports-gunshots-explosion/
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/22/manchester-arena-evacuated-reports-gunshots-explosion/
Herr Schwarz
Banned
It was probably like a car back fire sample that got piped through the speaker and blew it up and everybody shat themselves creating a mass panic (i hope!).
If it was an armed dude going nuts we would of heard about it sooner than an hour, think about the last times a terrorist incident happened it came out really fast.
If it was an armed dude going nuts we would of heard about it sooner than an hour, think about the last times a terrorist incident happened it came out really fast.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
If there were masses of people trampling each other to run away or there was a crush then the ambulances are necessary. The station situation is also likely part of a protocol. Either way, the point of the initial response is to do too much and it end up being too much than doing too little when more is needed.
Certainly in the UK, phone signal is awful when capacity is overloaded (e.g. at big events/venues)and especially when something like this happens.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Manchester police confirming fatalities.
If it's not immediately known what caused the sound/panic, the authorities aren't going to wait it out. Better to be safe than sorry - they have to be ready in case it turns out to be something really bad, but I still think/hope the worst part is the panic itself, and that the sound itself is something relatively harmless. I think we'd know more if it was something more.
Fuck, maybe I was wrong.
plagiarize
Banned
That knot in my stomach isn't going to go away.
CaptainRizla
Member
Oh fuck. My partner and daughter are there and can't get hold of them
Edit: managed to contact them on phone. They are safe but daughter (9) is understandably upset. Should be home in an hour. Thoughts go out to those that weren't so lucky.
Edit: managed to contact them on phone. They are safe but daughter (9) is understandably upset. Should be home in an hour. Thoughts go out to those that weren't so lucky.
| Praxis |
Banned
That's because they were running around the streets with AK's or running people down in trucks and cars. An explosion of any kind in such a crowded place is going to be confusing initially.
Shit man...
Little Old Man
Member
Just on Sky News. RIP.
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
CBS was covering it. There's some video of the audience running out of the arena.
Oh fuck
kaiju
Member
Dammit
Pinch of salt here, but seems like there is a dashcam video that catches whatever it was. Look to the left at 7 seconds. You can hear it too.
And yes, the dashcam timestamp says 9:30, but that could just be the camera hasn't adjusted for daylight savings, it was reported around 10:30.
edit: forgot the link https://twitter.com/JoeAaronGregory/status/866784565821677569
And yes, the dashcam timestamp says 9:30, but that could just be the camera hasn't adjusted for daylight savings, it was reported around 10:30.
edit: forgot the link https://twitter.com/JoeAaronGregory/status/866784565821677569
onken
Member
McMoneyman
Member
So sad to hear about fatalities. RIP 