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[RedDwarf]

CNN: DEVELOPING STORY

Birmingham, England, police evacuating the city after intelligence suggested some type of threat, the switchboard operator said.

 

[CabbageRed]

Evacuating a city?

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Ugh, not again

BBC reporting the same

Police in Birmingham are evacuating large parts of the city centre

 

[Particle Physicist]

this is so fucked. :/

 

[midnightguy]

Evacuating a city?

just the city center


they're evacuating and taking precautions. I don't expect anything seriously bad to happen THIS TIME.

 

[COCKLES]

http://www2.b3ta.com/birmingham/

 

[radioheadrule83]

Sky News have uncomfirmed reports of controlled explosions,
no cars allowed past city's ring road.

Worrying. I'm just about to go into Liverpool..

 

[midnightguy]

30,000 people have been or are being evacuated.

 

[Particle Physicist]

http://www2.b3ta.com/birmingham/

that song is damn catchy.

 

[Diablos]

Dammit...

 

[Lakitu]

Oh not again, I hope everything's okay, I don't think anybody could handle yet another attack.

 

[radioheadrule83]

Press conference in 15 minutes? They said this quite a while ago.. nothing yet.

My taxi isn't coming assholes. Gonna be midnight by the time I get into town. Thats two hours at the bar, 1 hour after that then home.

 

[Fifty]

that song is damn catchy.

Yeah really.

I hope everything turns out ok there

 

[shuri]

Zombies. It's finally happening, folks.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Zombies. It's finally happening, folks.

Which one?

 

[gofreak]

Seems fairly serious. Homes have been evacuated now too, and the area of evacuation is reportedly widening.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4668313.stm

I guess it's better to be safe than sorry - hopefully nothing will come to pass.

 

[Matlock]

hang the dj
hang the dj
hang the dj

 

[cbrotherson]

Yeah, the city centre is blocked off. It's 20 mins from my house (I'm a B'ham hometowner), so things are a little freaky. Being the second city things are a little skittish since Thursday obviously, so this sort of thing was sadly inevitable
Hopefully its just a scare... my sister's just outside of town right now... :-s

C.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Well Birmingham is Britain's second city, so a likely target. What's next? Manchester? Edinburgh? The former's a little too close for comfort for me.

 

[Prine]

 

[boredJonathan]

That article on the BBC says that the controlled explosions were of items that ended up being non lethal. So I guess they found a bookbag or something, contained it, blew it up, and all that was in there was books, for example. Is this evacuation still going on then? Meaning there might be more "threats" that they are looking for?

 

[Ghost]

Hopefully this is just an idiotic hoax.


And if that turns out to be the case i hope they find the git who did it and phone his house saying "GET OUT OF THE HOUSE, THERES A BOMB" then club him in the face as he tries to leave, drag him back into the house, and repeat until he can no longer count to 10 without the aid of flipcards.

 

[cbrotherson]

It's all still blocked off -- but I'd imagine they're still searching the place high and low, even if it's a hoax they'll be very very slow in pulling out the police and unblocking the area. Things were bad after Thursday, now it's going to be a lot worse because of tonight.

 

[Macam]

I thought this was in regards to Birmingham, Alabama in which case I was about to celebrate.

 

[EdLuva]

I thought this was in regards to Birmingham, Alabama in which case I was about to celebrate.

I thought the same thing because of hurricane Dennis (or whatever it's called). I have to head back to Huntsville in a couple of days.

 

[Nerevar]

I thought this was in regards to Birmingham, Alabama in which case I was about to celebrate.

yah, misleading thread title. I thought it related to Birmingham, AL due to the hurricane. The reality (Birmingham England) is a much more severe scenario.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Jesus, evacuating an entire city due to a scare of terrorist attacks? This is serious shit.

 

[Keyser Soze]

I wake up @ 5:00am...

SKY NEWS: Second suppect package "with wires" city center still shut...