Re: Getting mistaken for a terrorist.

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Xyberpix wrote:

> Now this really gets to me!
>
> When I go through to London, I usually take/wear a think coat, as most the times
> I've been to London I leave really early in the morning, and I usually have a
> backpack with a laptop, GPS device, MP3 player, wireless antenna, and some spare
> batteries for my Mac. So yeah, this could happen to most people I know.
>
> http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
 
When a city comes under attack by rucksack-bombers (Thursday 7th July) 
killing 52 people, and then there's a further attack (failed) by four more 
rucksack bombers (Thursday 21 July), you have to understand that on 
Thursday 28 July people are going to be more careful than usual.

I'm a Londoner, and believe me, it gets to me too that we've been attacked 
like this - twice, in the same way, and although we're not going to let it 
change our way of life, we are, for a long time, going to be a bit more 
careful about possible terrorists on the underground.

> From the account of the guy arrested, he was stopped, detained, arrested 
and checked out very carefully. He was released several hours later, 
having had to ask *twice* for a glass of water. He had to agree to turn up 
at a police station a month later, he did so, and was told that the case 
was closed, no further action.

If this had happened to me, I'd be mildly annoyed, of course, but I'd 
understand what the reason was.


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