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Camden Underground Graffiti
Mr R wrote: How stupid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm I agree - does the Underground have no security whatsoever?! It must have taken HOURS to do that amount of damage. And, not one single staff member on patrol throughout that time? It beggars belief. Returning to a neighbouring thread, I see that the Underground has had to abandon its ban on photography of vandalism! Marc. |
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Mr R wrote: How stupid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm Stupid indeed, but unfortunately in the eyes of the crew responsible for this graffiti it'll count as a big success. One can only guess that some amount of planning went into this. I fear this incident will prompt others to attempt similarly audacious endeavours. I agree - does the Underground have no security whatsoever?! It must have taken HOURS to do that amount of damage. And, not one single staff member on patrol throughout that time? It beggars belief. Quote from the BBC news story: "The vandals are thought to have entered the station by walking along the tracks when the network was shut down on Christmas Day. [...] One theory is the gang walked in from Finchley Road or Golder's Green Tube stations." (Presumably they mean East Finchley station, not Finchley Road.) Do remember that this happened on Christmas day when the whole network was closed, so I presume there were hardly any staff about. The failing is that this wasn't picked up by anyone monitoring the CCTV - the crew would have had to walk a substantial distance through the tunnels, passing through stations en route before spending quite some time at Camden Town station spraying this all on. When I was in Paris recently I did note with interest that some of the tunnel lining between Metro stations had been daubed with graffiti (on line 4). I must admit I don't know Paris well some I'm not au fait on the graffiti situation over there. Back to the London Underground - I'm interested to know if the electrical current was on or off during the Christmas day closedown. |
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Mr R wrote:
How stupid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm I'm all for banging up the asbo generation, however "The attack came after pre-emptive arrests were made by British Transport Police in an attempt to prevent major vandalism attacks." Either they were arrested because they might commit a crime, which is awful, or they were arrested because they had committed a crime -- in which case why wait until christmas? |
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Mr R wrote: How stupid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm I'm all for banging up the asbo generation, however "The attack came after pre-emptive arrests were made by British Transport Police in an attempt to prevent major vandalism attacks." Either they were arrested because they might commit a crime, which is awful, or they were arrested because they had committed a crime -- in which case why wait until christmas? I took that report to mean that the police had discovered plans for a major graffiti attack over Christmas (i.e. a criminal conspiracy), but didn't manage to detain all the conspirators. The lack of effective surveillance perhaps suggests that they thought they had in fact got the whole gang. I wish the BBC hadn't published the photo, which is giving these vandals the publicity they were seeking. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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"Richard J." wrote in message .uk... Paul Weaver wrote: Mr R wrote: How stupid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm I'm all for banging up the asbo generation, however "The attack came after pre-emptive arrests were made by British Transport Police in an attempt to prevent major vandalism attacks." Either they were arrested because they might commit a crime, which is awful, or they were arrested because they had committed a crime -- in which case why wait until christmas? I took that report to mean that the police had discovered plans for a major graffiti attack over Christmas (i.e. a criminal conspiracy), but didn't manage to detain all the conspirators. The lack of effective surveillance perhaps suggests that they thought they had in fact got the whole gang. I wish the BBC hadn't published the photo, which is giving these vandals the publicity they were seeking. -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) They should have left the current switched on. |
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In message . com,
" writes Mr R wrote: How stupid http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm I agree - does the Underground have no security whatsoever?! It must have taken HOURS to do that amount of damage. And, not one single staff member on patrol throughout that time? It beggars belief. Yep, Al Qaeda could get a sodding artillery piece onto the underground in the time these guys must have had. It makes a mockery of any kind of security on the Underground System. -- Edward Cowling London UK |
Camden Underground Graffiti
Yep, Al Qaeda could get a sodding artillery piece onto the underground
in the time these guys must have had. It's not a very practical place for an artillery emplacement though, is it? ;-) -- Adam |
Camden Underground Graffiti
In message , Adam Cameron
writes Yep, Al Qaeda could get a sodding artillery piece onto the underground in the time these guys must have had. It's not a very practical place for an artillery emplacement though, is it? ;-) Yuk it up, then really think about the implications of what was done at Camden Town. How much of the network is wide open at nights and holidays ? Someone in the Met should be wearing bicycle clips today :-) -- Edward Cowling London UK |
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