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Travelled on the Piccadilly line for a few of stops this morning.

It seemed as if virtually every man and his dog (and cat for good measure)
waiting on the platform was toting a rucksack!

Just as well I'm not of a faint heart or prone to paranoia otherwise I'd
be
digging a foxhole in my back yard!

Encouragingly though the volume of passengers on my Piccadilly line tube
into Central London from Heathrow looked at normal Saturday levels. I
remember that shortly after 9/11 the Piccadilly line tubes into Central
London looked like ghost trains.

I think it's something to do with (bear with me on this) *putting* things
inside them. I haven't really investigated it very much, but as I understand
it, if you wear a 'ruck sack' you can carry lots of things in them. I'm
still at the stage of carrying individual items in my hands, and really, it
is a bit of a pain, particularly when one of them has to be a tube ticket...

Nick

Nick Drew wrote:


I think it's something to do with (bear with me on this) *putting*
things inside them. I haven't really investigated it very much, but
as I understand it, if you wear a 'ruck sack' you can carry lots of
things in them. I'm still at the stage of carrying individual items
in my hands, and really, it is a bit of a pain, particularly when one
of them has to be a tube ticket...

Oh I appreciate fully well the practicality and ubiquity of rucksacks.
Indeed the first store I went into after exiting the tube was doing a
prominent special on rucksacks! LOL!

BTW I'm not calling for a ban on rucksacks - don't get me wrong. On Friday,
one of the presenters on Talksport Radio was suggesting that rucksacks be
banned on the Underground! I don't think he fully appreciated the
practicalities (and futility) of introducing or enforcing such a ban. Won't
terrorists simply switch to suitcases or carry-on bags?

My point (in a tongue in cheek way) was that one would quickly become a
paranoid wreck if one fell into the trap of stereotyping every person (or
more to the point -every "Islamic looking" person) toting a rucksack as a
potential suicide bomber.

I'm yet to experience the joys of a rucksack. I've always tended to use a
carrybag for small stuff or a small carry-on bag for larger items

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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:41:13 +0100, "Trust No One®"
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Nick Drew wrote:


I think it's something to do with (bear with me on this) *putting*
things inside them. I haven't really investigated it very much, but
as I understand it, if you wear a 'ruck sack' you can carry lots of
things in them. I'm still at the stage of carrying individual items
in my hands, and really, it is a bit of a pain, particularly when one
of them has to be a tube ticket...

Oh I appreciate fully well the practicality and ubiquity of rucksacks.
Indeed the first store I went into after exiting the tube was doing a
prominent special on rucksacks! LOL!

BTW I'm not calling for a ban on rucksacks - don't get me wrong. On Friday,
one of the presenters on Talksport Radio was suggesting that rucksacks be
banned on the Underground! I don't think he fully appreciated the
practicalities (and futility) of introducing or enforcing such a ban. Won't
terrorists simply switch to suitcases or carry-on bags?

Or bomb belts. At least you can see a rucksack!

Trust No One® wrote:


m has to be a tube ticket...


Oh I appreciate fully well the practicality and ubiquity of rucksacks.
Indeed the first store I went into after exiting the tube was doing a
prominent special on rucksacks! LOL!

Eh?

BTW I'm not calling for a ban on rucksacks - don't get me wrong. On Friday,
one of the presenters on Talksport Radio was suggesting that rucksacks be
banned on the Underground! I don't think he fully appreciated the
practicalities (and futility) of introducing or enforcing such a ban. Won't
terrorists simply switch to suitcases or carry-on bags?

I think rucksacks should be banned in restaurants and cinemas.

My point (in a tongue in cheek way) was that one would quickly become a
paranoid wreck if one fell into the trap of stereotyping every person (or
more to the point -every "Islamic looking" person) toting a rucksack as a
potential suicide bomber.

Only if they look Asian.
I'm yet to experience the joys of a rucksack. I've always tended to use a
carrybag for small stuff or a small carry-on bag for larger items

Try a wheely-bin. They're very useful for carrying 'stuff' around.

In article ,
"Trust No One®" wrote:

On Friday,
one of the presenters on Talksport Radio was suggesting that rucksacks be
banned on the Underground!

How about backpackers then?
:-(
TA