Would You Still Go To These Places?

[Barsel]

Knowing we are probably under threat from terrorists, does this determine where you go i.e where you shop,which film you would go to watch? I'm a bit of a coward really and haven't shopped in Manchester City Centre since the atrocities there. I would also avoid places like the Trafford Centre in Manchester and any cinema showing films that might lead to a bomb being left under a seat.What about you? I suspect a lot of people would think, 'Nobody determines what I do or where I go', or are you like me, and prefer not to take the chance.x

[mccfluff]

doesn't even occur to me to think about it..... i don't go to the cinema but that's because its bloody expensive, i work in a massive retail park so it would be tricky to avoid coming here.....

i am convinced that two of my colleagues are plotting to kill me but i don;t think that's a terrorism issue

[sandyRoe]

I was talking with a taxi driver who told me his parents were in Sharm el Sheikh when the bombs exploded there. They went back the next year. Foolhardy or thinking lightning wouldn't strike twice in the same place?

[ummmm]

I was in Egypt when the bombs went off. Luckily not in Sharm. Would I go back there....NO. Especially after being called a sl ag by a kid that looked about 10 years old.

[jd_1984]

There are a few posts relating to IRA terrorism but the biggest risk surely is from muslim extremeists at the moment.

[Peter Pedant]

// The original car bomb killed an eminent and skilled surgeon who was walking his dog and noticed a suspicious package under the car of a resident who was a govt minister for whom the bomb was intended.//

poor old Gordon Hamilton Fairley - Prof of Haem at Barts.
He might have seen it under a car and may have poked at it.

The perps were the Balcombe st gang who also 'fessed up to Guildford but this was taken as disinformation whilst Molly Maguire et al were er framed by People who Should Have Known Better.

I was a student then and you are quite right we just went on going out and er getting plastered as tho there were no tomorrow.

Forty y later altho Caroline Kennedy was touted as the desired victim it was pretty obviouseven then the IRA wouldnt blow to smithereens a Roman Catholic Kennedy. and a , certain Master of the Rolls Sir JOhn Donaldson lived just around the corner.

Hamilton Fairley ( his father described the liver cycle of the malaria parasite wh ROnald Ross hadnt worked out ) was just the wrong person at the wrong time piking the wrong package

[Barsel]

Thanks for your interesting and sometimes comic answers. Those of you who say that if we were to stay at home then they have won, are right in a way but I don't look at it like that. I just think that if I can avoid the places that may be targeted then I am more likely to stay alive so I can spend more time with my loved ones. xx

[dekkypoo]

According to statistics if you bought a lottery ticket every week for ten years you would 'statistically' be more likely to be a BIG lotto winner than being blown up in a shop, cinema e.t.c.

[Old_Geezer]

On a day to day basis it never has changed my decisions. But on the other hand I don't temp fate by booking holidays in war zones. The thing is to not be inconvenienced, but not foolish either.