Car driven into Glasgow airport terminal

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:23 pm

Can't help but think that if it was a serious terror attack, once the car was on fire, it would have lots of explosives, and would have gone up big time.

Wondering if it's local small time group having a half cocked stab at some sort of attack.

Only in Glasgow would the locals take on the attackers... go on the weegies

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:56 pm

Dominic wrote:Can't help but think that if it was a serious terror attack, once the car was on fire, it would have lots of explosives, and would have gone up big time.

Wondering if it's local small time group having a half cocked stab at some sort of attack.

Only in Glasgow would the locals take on the attackers... go on the weegies

Dominic you are so right .A quote from the sky news website http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,, ... html?f=rss:

James Edgar told Sky News: "There was a lot of anger - if the crowds had got hold of this gentleman it would have been the end of him."

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:01 pm

Mental.

£10 to anyone who can spot a good news story on the news at the moment.

woody · Post by **woody** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:01 pm

Dominic wrote:Can't help but think that if it was a serious terror attack, once the car was on fire, it would have lots of explosives, and would have gone up big time.

Wondering if it's local small time group having a half cocked stab at some sort of attack.

Only in Glasgow would the locals take on the attackers... go on the weegies

If only it'd happened elsewhere in the city.... then at least there would have been plenty of tooled-up weegies to deal with them

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:10 pm

FFS sitting in the lounge after finally getting another boarding pass today thinking nothing couldstop us from going on honeymoon.....

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:39 pm

No luck mate...just heard ther's unconfirmed reports of an explosion at Heathrow too.....

CSK_423 · Post by **CSK_423** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:40 pm

dezzy wrote:
james wrote:Are we safe anywhere these days?
I've been up and down from Glasgow Airport to Heathrow twice this week and got another couple of visits the week after next. Starting to think this jet-setting thing ain't all it's cracked up to be when sh*t like this happens! I always assumed we were not important enough for anyone to give a toss about doing anything to Glasgow or Glasgow Airport.

I guess we still don't know full story though . . .

I though the same dezzy !!

Having just returned from my honeymoon and finding out about the london incidents I mentioned to the father in law that I wouldn't ever think they would target scotland, how wrong was I less then 24hrs later this happens !!

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:51 pm

Oh well, that'll be me and every other airport worker treated like the worlds worst terrorists again!!

The two guys must be the terroristâ€™s version of the chuckle brothers. They didn't do very well, thankfully! To me, it looks like an amateurish copycat attempt, 2 idiots watching the news about the London attacks and thinking they want to change the world.

Surprised how long it took to get in the news. I found out just after 3, from our Ops dept, put on BBC news 24, it was well over half an hour before anything was reported about it.

Must admit, you lot down there aren't very good at setting fires. We had an aircraft damaged through an arson attack at Glasgow airport a couple of years ago. The guy place a jerry can on top of the wing. He didn't do very well either, a delaminated panel, a couple of melted windows and some paint damage. The worst of it was water damage from the fire service. Tenkfeet, I think it was a couple of your guys that disturbed the bloke and nearly run him over. Donâ€™t think they ever caught the bloke.

meatball · Post by **meatball** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:33 pm

Dominic wrote:Can't help but think that if it was a serious terror attack, once the car was on fire, it would have lots of explosives, and would have gone up big time.

Wondering if it's local small time group having a half cocked stab at some sort of attack.

Only in Glasgow would the locals take on the attackers... go on the weegies

When people try to get hold of explosives or their ingredients the authorities usually catch them.......hence the use of petrol at Glw and London.....or so me thinks????
Search dogs can detect explosives....but not petrol!

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:56 pm

meatball wrote:
Dominic wrote:Can't help but think that if it was a serious terror attack, once the car was on fire, it would have lots of explosives, and would have gone up big time.

Wondering if it's local small time group having a half cocked stab at some sort of attack.

Only in Glasgow would the locals take on the attackers... go on the weegies
When people try to get hold of explosives or their ingredients the authorities usually catch them.......hence the use of petrol at Glw and London.....or so me thinks????
Search dogs can detect explosives....but not petrol!

Ah... makes sense!

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:16 pm

Kev wrote:Oh well, that'll be me and every other airport worker treated like the worlds worst terrorists again!!

The two guys must be the terroristâ€™s version of the chuckle brothers. They didn't do very well, thankfully! To me, it looks like an amateurish copycat attempt, 2 idiots watching the news about the London attacks and thinking they want to change the world.

Surprised how long it took to get in the news. I found out just after 3, from our Ops dept, put on BBC news 24, it was well over half an hour before anything was reported about it.

Must admit, you lot down there aren't very good at setting fires. We had an aircraft damaged through an arson attack at Glasgow airport a couple of years ago. The guy place a jerry can on top of the wing. He didn't do very well either, a delaminated panel, a couple of melted windows and some paint damage. The worst of it was water damage from the fire service. Tenkfeet, I think it was a couple of your guys that disturbed the bloke and nearly run him over. Donâ€™t think they ever caught the bloke.

You are correct it was a couple of my collegues who disturbed him ,if he had even an ounce of common sense it would of been a different story .When it came down to it running somebody over was against their instincts. I heard they know who he was and he may have left the country.

Just now a military chinook has just past over my house in the direction of the airport . Wonder who is flying round in that on a Saturday .

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:41 pm

I can't see what this attack was actually meant to achieve (if it was real terrorists). I mean, from the pics I saw on TV the car has barely breached the front doors of the terminal... with no explosives on board or projectiles to be used in the occurance of an explosion.

Surely it's not much worse than a fire in a bin in the terminal !!

Maybe the post earlier about conspiracies earlier isn't far off the mark... something to keep us on our toes going in to the holiday season?

Edin430 · Post by **Edin430** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:11 pm

considering the doors at Glasgow airport are bomb proof these guys clearly never put much thought into this one.......... f***ys..

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:26 pm

They're now saying the guy taken to the RAH had a "device" on him. Speculation again, but could have been suicide device. Not sure how likely that is, because surely he would have just used that instead of letting himself burn to death when he caught on fire!

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:32 am

Shouldn't have arrested them, either throw them back into the car or let the passengers sort them out

They will now spend several years getting fed and clothed by the taxpayer.

They must have been watching too many movies: petrol explodes when a car crashes, they always do on telly....

The Oklahoma bomber used mostly diesel, fertilizer and a bit of know how. As meatball says you can buy 100 gallons of diesel fuel and steal half a ton of fertilizer without alerting the authorities too much, you nick a couple of blocks of C4 on the other hand and you get shot at.