Terror In The City
Cop: Oh, something's happened in one of the building.
Me: This one?
Cop: Can't tell you which one.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Cop: Oh, something's happened in one of the building.
Me: This one?
Cop: Can't tell you which one.
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typical. sounds like the response we get over here in New York City, my friend.
"sorry sir, that's all the infomation I can give you... but... you can't go in that building... yeah... that one..."
completely ridiculous.
Well, at least you wouldn't have had to work it out from a process of elimination. Let's see, the news cameras are all pointing at that building, so...
You have to remember that this is Perth. Radical Islamics (and just about everyone else) laugh when it is included in the list of possible terrorist targets. There's a joke that if Perth was bombed it would take the rest of the world a week to notice if they ever noticed at all. But back to my point: the cop probably didn't know anymore than TP.
Also, the terror in the city was in fact a bag that somebody left unattended for more than 30 secs. It just happened to be in the Stock Exchange building so they HAD to block off the main street in Perth for a couple of hours. If it had been anywhere else it would have probably been ignored.
BTW, it was so unimportant that it didn't even rate a mention in the local news that I saw an hour after everything had been wrapped up. I don't think it was even mentioned in the local rag (yes we only have one which is just as well because it's barely good enough for wrapping fish and chips) - which isn't surprising because it didn't involve Kate Moss. See Not The West for a parody of it.
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