loch Lomond blast.

[locum76]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11794376

Which one of you lot has been experimenting with new stoves then?

 

[Shewie]

Not guilty your honour

Sounds a bit dodgy, I wonder if it's something left over from the war ?

 

[_mark_]

there were a few 'suspicious devices' whatever that means?

 

[BorderReiver]

there were a few 'suspicious devices' whatever that means?

Nowt suspicious at all; just some silly bushcrafter who ate too many beans and sat too close to the fire.

 

[andybysea]

The first thing that sprung to mind when i heard about this last night was that someone had put a gas canister in the fire after they thought it was empty, as in few lads gone up there for a laugh had a few beers and thought it would be funny, but now the Police are saying a few suspect devices?,still think its was just idiots messing around in all likely hood.

 

[British Red]

Heck of an over reaction for messing about.....how come the local plod needed to draft in people from the Met' for that?

 

[EdS]

Any anti terrorism related stuff is co-ordinated via Met

http://www.met.police.uk/so/counter_terrorism.htm

Like a few other crimes - the Met acts as a National force rather than just a London one. The co-ordinate at a national level that should be.

Due to the size of the Met they also act as a reserve for man-power ie off duty office get pulled in etc, where extra man power is needed anywhere in the country. I remember having a run in with Met officers at Stonehenge.

 

[Highbinder]

Not there this weekend. Have to say tho' sounds like they're making a big deal out of nothing at all. From that story whats' the indication of terrorists?

 

[Bigfoot]

Not there this weekend. Have to say tho' sounds like they're making a big deal out of eff all. From that story whats' the indication of terrorists?

Anything that the media highlight as "explosion" or "blast". And we all know that's what terrorists do, right?

 

[Highbinder]

The media are a bunch of belthering eejits. It drives me nutty how they try and cause waves out of nonexistent stories. Start reporting when something newsworthy has actually happened !!

 

[bojit]

This happend in the same week that the ark royal dropped of all its munitions
at loch long , not that far from loch lomond .
I wonder if one of the guys was trying to make a few pound for xmas ,
selling a few pound of c4 down the pub lol.

 

[Shewie]

Quite an interesting read ....

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/features/Out-of-Nowhere-Blast-shocks.6633845.jp

In November 2007, in the wake of the airport attack, it was reported that two Muslim al-Qaeda recruits - who had since defected - had claimed that ten-day courses aimed at recruiting Islamic extremists had been held in the area. One was near Drymen, a few miles from Gartocharn, the other was close to Aviemore in the Highlands. "Everyone thought Scotland wasn't a target," one was reported as saying. "They were wrong. For some time more and more extremists have moved up here and have been recruiting people to the cause."

It's very coincidental wouldn't you say

 

[Toddy]

Ross Priory is a kind of private playground estate for the staff and students for Strathclyde University.

cheers,
M

 

[Sniper]

You have to remember that this story would be written from an official police statement, one that would not want to start a panic or a local witchunt against anyone with a middle eastern look or background as has happened in the past. If they are carrying out a fingertip search that would indicate the liklyhood that they have found evidence perhaps of a practice blast using some form of homemade IED. They ain't gonna spend a fortune in manpower and helicopters unless they are pretty sure of finding something.

 

[Barn Owl]

You have to remember that this story would be written from an official police statement, one that would not want to start a panic or a local witchunt against anyone with a middle eastern look or background as has happened in the past. If they are carrying out a fingertip search that would indicate the liklyhood that they have found evidence perhaps of a practice blast using some form of homemade IED. They ain't gonna spend a fortune in manpower and helicopters unless they are pretty sure of finding something.

Aye, something fishy abounds.

Unless it was extra terrestial,(the locals thought it was like a firework),so there is some sort of 'official premise' about the matter.

How many times have the Police attended your fire after you've chucked the hairspray tin in the embers?...hmmmn..

 

[Wallenstein]

Could be kids mucking about with a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook.

Or could be a gas canister on a fire.

Or could be terrorists trying out IEDs.

I reckon it's the first or second, but the police would get slated if they didn't at least check for the third.

 

[Gill]

Aye, something fishy abounds.

Unless it was extra terrestial,(the locals thought it was like a firework),so there is some sort of 'official premise' about the matter.

How many times have the Police attended your fire after you've chucked the hairspray tin in the embers?...hmmmn..

maybe kids wae flares or the like thunderflashes ,it is just past guy falkes.

 

[Shewie]

I think I read somehwere about a tree being blown in half by the blast, could've been a sapling though I suppose.

 

[Dormouse]

Although some members of the public assumed it was just fireworks, others thought it loud enough or 'different' enough to report it to the police and they can't possibly just disregard it as kids mucking about.

Home grown would-be Jihadis have been known to use remote woodland for training (there's even vids on YouTube of them playing insurgents) and the attack on Glasgow airport was known to have been rehearsed in Scottish woods. The anti-terror chaps have to investigate - just in case.

 

[Wallenstein]

Plus I bet the police like a nice day out in the woods as much as the rest of us