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Did they over-react?
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This is regarding a bus on which a passenger saw smoke coming from a fellow passengers bag and contacted the police.
The bus was stopped on the M6 toll motorway, and surrounded by Armed officers, troops, fire-fighters, ambulances and bomb disposal experts.
This was discussed this morning on the Nick Farrai show LBC radio who seemed to think they had over-reacted, and he nearly burst a blood vessel when a caller disagreed with him.
He attempted to shout the caller down by shouting "IT WAS JUST A HARMLESS ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE FOR GOD'S SAKE" and that the police could have sent along a patrol car with a couple of officers, one who could have entered the bus and approached the passenger and say "excuse me sir do you mind telling me what you have in your bag"?
Yes that would have been all right if they had knew it was only a harmless electronic smoking devise, but they didn't, and if it had been something more sinister the lives of the buses passengers, along with the police officer could have been at risk if not immediately, but certainly by the time all those emergency response teams had finally arrived at the scene.
All very well to be wise after the event, Mr Farrai.
But what do fellow ABers think?
The bus was stopped on the M6 toll motorway, and surrounded by Armed officers, troops, fire-fighters, ambulances and bomb disposal experts.
This was discussed this morning on the Nick Farrai show LBC radio who seemed to think they had over-reacted, and he nearly burst a blood vessel when a caller disagreed with him.
He attempted to shout the caller down by shouting "IT WAS JUST A HARMLESS ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE FOR GOD'S SAKE" and that the police could have sent along a patrol car with a couple of officers, one who could have entered the bus and approached the passenger and say "excuse me sir do you mind telling me what you have in your bag"?
Yes that would have been all right if they had knew it was only a harmless electronic smoking devise, but they didn't, and if it had been something more sinister the lives of the buses passengers, along with the police officer could have been at risk if not immediately, but certainly by the time all those emergency response teams had finally arrived at the scene.
All very well to be wise after the event, Mr Farrai.
But what do fellow ABers think?
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It does seem over the top, but in fairness they did not know what they were dealing with and would have caught a lot of flak had a coachload of passengers been blown up because they asked to look in the bag and a detonator was pushed. It's just a pity some feel the need to use these taunting smoking toys. Not sure why they have to have realistic fumes anyway.
Over reaction by the passenger ---- NO
Over reaction by the police ---- NO
Is Nick Farrai being a bit stupid ---- YES , without a doubt. There has been cases when someone has tried to detonate a bomb and it has not exploded but has smoked.
I wonder how Nick Farrai would have reacted if he had been on the bus .
Over reaction by the police ---- NO
Is Nick Farrai being a bit stupid ---- YES , without a doubt. There has been cases when someone has tried to detonate a bomb and it has not exploded but has smoked.
I wonder how Nick Farrai would have reacted if he had been on the bus .
