Breaking News:....car accident in Glasgow

[spanone]

this is all cnn has on this story.

[RufusTFirefly]

1. I think you mean Glasgow airport...

.. and that the terminal has been evacuated. Normal car accidents aren't breaking news.




Car on fire crashes into airport

A car on fire has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport, police have confirmed.

Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath.

[spanone]

2. yes, the airport is in Glasgow. and the car wreck was there.

that's the news...CNN desperately trying to tie this to London autos....

they are 'speculating' this and that.

Report: Cars Crash Near Glasgow Airport
~snip~
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Two cars crashed outside Glascow's international airport Saturday, with one of them bursting into flames, police said.

The cars collided outside the main terminal at Glasgow International Airport, Strathclyde Police spokeswoman Lisa O'Neil said. She did not confirm media reports saying the motorist tried to drive into the terminal building. ''One car is on fire, but it is not clear if it went inside the terminal building,'' she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Britain-Airport-Crash.html

[aquart]

5. Oh, that al Qaeda graduating class of 2007.

Busy, busy, busy.

GLASGOW? They're hitting people who HATE the British?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

54. Glasgow is in Britain

[kurth]

6. "Driver blames bad brake job for airport crash while waiting to pick up passenger

And the fuel in the back was for his lawnmower..."

[mediawatch]

19. no he is friends with yesterday's barbecue guys

just look the other way:beer:

Although I am starting to wonder if those who are doing this and keep failing are getting pissed? Assuming "those" know each other and this is not just a huge coincident

[malaise]

3. MSNBC is hysterically not

funny. Scottish Prime Minister -Benz were stolen in Scotland. Asian looking - could be Brazilian then...they did kill a Brazilian man thinking he was Asian? And of course every five minutes someone says we are speculating.


Why the fugg is this British man blinking like this. Is this some signal?

Add.

[rocktivity]

4. Maybe the car was being driven at high speeds

because the driver knew there was something wrong with the car, AND HE WANTED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF IT!!!

:eyes:
rocknation

[spanone]

7. Until then, we'll asume they are terrorists, preferably Al Qaeda

[RufusTFirefly]

8. Yes. Let's bomb Iran now. Before it's too late. n/t

[spanone]

9. CNN just said it must be some sort of terrorist attack

and they said this based on nothing....

they said due to conflicting stories, it must be a terrorist attack of some sort.
WTF?

[KharmaTrain]

10. Fear Fear Fear...They Can't Get Enough Fear

They've already suspected Al Queda and the immediate question is "are we next?". I've seen a bunch of the usual suspect talking heads already projecting how many people would be killed and how easy it would be to happen in our major cities. The CNN execs must be extactic...ramping up fear for ratings.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

44. It's become so damn easy to control minds, these days.

Of course, there's been quite a bit of political fallout lately.

:eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

11. Oops

Nevermind...

[malaise]

16. For the record BBC has no live coverage

while MSNBC is taking as gospel any rumour anyone is willing to spread. Why are they pushing this fear nonsense again? Why as July 4th approaches? Why as Bush and Cheney are on the rack? WTF is going on?

[spanone]

17. Ministry of propaganda is in full out mode. CIA welcomes new brit Prime Minister.

[KharmaTrain]

22. This Coverage Is Shameful

They keep looping the same few snippets of video over and over. Yes, this looks terrible, but the leap to conclusions by these "pundits" is astounding.

Now I hear another "newsbabe" ask for the umpteenth time "what's this attack mean to the United States". Game On!

Ain't it something this stuff is happening on a Friday and Saturday...sure to be ramped up on tomorrow's talking head shows...and right after Gordon Brown became PM. That's what I'm wondering about.

:hi:

Enjoy the weekend!

[malaise]

24. Meanwhile several civilians were slaughtered in both Iraq

and Afghanistan today. No coverage of that - just terra, terra, terra. How many US military people died this month? No coverage - terra, terra, terra.

[spanone]

26. 99 Soldiers so far this month.......

[KharmaTrain]

27. Now If This Were A Truck Bomb In Iraq

What's the old line about a bear shitting in the woods?

How ironic the wingnuts are dying to play up these bombings, but if this were a Mosque or bridge in Baghdad and 100 people perished...well that's "biased" news.

[spanone]

29. just a note.....there were NO bombings.

[KatyMan]

36. Actually, for the record

BBC News 24 is running with it, as is Sky News. It's not shrill or scare mongering, mostly just information and witness interviews (at least on the BBC, I tend to not watch Sky News).

[spanone]

38. CNN & MSNBC were on this story hours before BBC. FYI

[WritersBlock]

40. That's highly suspicious in itself then, since happened less than three hours ago.

;)

1515 BST; it's 17.59 as I type.



(Edit because I can't add.)

[spanone]

43. CNN reported this almost two hours ago..... bbc just chimed in.

highly suspicious??? maybe

[malaise]

55. Yep I watching BBC now but they are reporting not speculating like the lunatics

on MSNBC and CNN.

Sp.

[kurth]

12. NEXT: British goverment orders camera in every car to monitor terrorist activities

[MADem]

13. Well, you know what THIS means, don't you?????

You go to the airport to pick someone up, you'll have to just give the fuck up--pay the exorbitant parking, and get out of your car and wait; or get harassed if you do the "Let the eagle soar" technique of circling the airport access roads repeatedly as you frantically eye the sidewalks and the distant doors, slowing down to a dead crawl at the terminal where your intended target should be exiting...you juggle your cellphone and the steering wheel..."Where the hell are ya? I'm IN FRONT of Terminal Whatever!!! Oh, fachrissake, why didn't you TELL me you were on the DEPARTURES level!!! Jeeeeeeeeeesus!!!"

And for those of us returning home, looking for that good friend or relative doing the "Let the eagle soar" routine, we'll likely have to hump our mangled, inspected, picked over (with anything good stolen from our checked bags) belongings even further, winding around Jersey barriers, stepping off unreasonably steep curbs, prancing across walkways where circling, angry drivers aren't even bothering to look to see if there's a hapless air traveller in the road....

Ah, yes...another clusterfuck in the making, courtesy of your friends at BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID Productions!!!!!

[spanone]

14. cnn reports......reports are sketchy at best

yet they definitively reported that this is a terrorist attack.

these people are in terror spin mode grande!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

speculating how 'this is gonna change the London investigation'

'if you just take this accident at 'face value' it's frightening'

[kurth]

15. Exactly, TSA is drafting orders

another step toward 100% protection of der Homeland.

[MindPilot]

45. You are absolutely correct... n/t

[spanone]

18. Ex-Scotland Yarder says.......it MAY be connected to London.

and then again....it may not be.

[spanone]

20. MSNBC is wondering why this (Scotland TERRORIST attack) hasn't occured here.

It's already a terrorist attack regardless of the outcome......

..and it may be, but we should respond to truth, not speculation.

[blitzen]

21. It's the Amateur Terrorist Hour! n/t

[spanone]

23. MSNBC just reported; IT MAY BE AN ACCIDENT!

NO SHIT.

then the talking head goes on to point out all the OTHER POSSIBILITIES.

The London cars were from Scotland?.....reported by MSNBC BUT NOT CONFIRMED

[malaise]

25. Mind-blowing crap coverage

This can only be deliberate. They don't care how many times they've been expsoed. But why now just before the July 4th holidays.

[kurth]

28. Patriotic Americans: Cars on fire are a sign of TERROR!

Stay away from them things.

[MGKrebs]

49. If you mean "deliberate" in terms of government sanction, then I disagree.

This kind of story is perfect for the new age of news. It's entertainment now, facts don't matter, repercussions don't matter, responsibility doesn't matter. Only DRAMA matters. They can call themselves "news" but it doesn't have to mean anything like what we are used to having it mean.

We don't have to like it, and we can try to resist it, but attributing a conspiracy to it based purely on a completely predictable media reaction...not credible.

[spanone]

30. CNN reports cars don't catch on fire without detination.......really????

I see them burned out on the side of the road occasionally....didn't realize these were failed terrorist attacks.

[Cerridwen]

32. My S.O. calls them carbeques -

he heard it on the radio one time.

We've both lived in the desert and seen our fair share of carbeques.

[POAS]

33. Wow that means I witnessed

a terrorist attack in progress on my way home from work Wednesday!

[kurth]

34. Freakin' morons

Gasoline is extremely FLAMMABLE. That's how cars work.

[MindPilot]

47. Okay that is more than wrong...it's stupid

I speak from the experience of 20 years as tech at a car dealer.

Cars catch fire. All it takes is an oil leak, a fuel leak, a hydraulic fluid leak, an electrical short or an overheating catalytic converter. I've restored many, many burnt vehicles to like new condition courtesy of the owner's insurance. Crashes cause fires too, but cars don't explode like they do in the movies, they just burn.

[MGKrebs]

53. Maybe a little bit...

http://www.wsbtv.com/slideshow/slideshowcentral/13526401/detail.html

[spanone]

31. CNN said they WON'T call it an accident.....

what if they are wrong? oh, I guess that doesn't really matter.

[spanone]

35. oooooh......... the idiot in chief has been briefed

[spanone]

37. MSNBC London & Glasgow has to be connected cause it's too coincidental....

what the fuck kind of 'news' reporting is this????


So two stories are related because they are too coincidental? fuck me

[WritersBlock]

39. BBC says Whitehall says it's *NOT* BEING TREATED AS A NATIONAL SECURITY INCIDENT.

(Thought I'd best type in all caps so as to shout over the CNN fearwhores.)

At least according to the blurb I saw on the BBC a little while ago, Whitehall's saying the incident isn't connected to national security, and is being treated as a criminal incident.

You could hear the disappointment in the anchor's voice.

[spanone]

41. MSNBC is currently speculating WHO DID IT and why....

such utter bullshit should not be treated as 'breaking news'. IMHO

We don't even know 'what they did'!!!!!

[mediawatch]

42. Why did they anchor

have disappointment in his voice? Was he being force to say it was not connected to national security?

[WritersBlock]

48. My take on it is that if it's not considered to be related to national security, then it's not ...

... considered to be related to terrorism. And the disappointment was because there's just not as much sensationalist fear value in a plain ol' vanilla crime (:sarcasm:)


I live less than 20 miles (as the crow flies) from that airport. But I'm not going to live in fear. :shrug:

[Beelzebud]

46. Breaking News: Buy an iPhone!

In other news: TERROR TERROR TERROR

This just in: The iPhone is totally cool and you should all go buy one now. Who cares if the 600 dollar price tag, and the contract with AT&T, just go buy it! It's COOL!

Now back to our top story: BE AFRAID when standing in line for 72 hours for your iPhone. Terrorist may strike with gasoline powered high explosives!

[MGKrebs]

50. "the green SUV barreled toward the building at full speed"

“The car came speeding past at about 30 mph. It was approaching the building quickly,”

Both quoted from the same story.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19522388/

[spanone]

51. they should hold a press conference and stop all this speculation bs

[malaise]

52. Uh Oh

Jack Jacobs has stretches this all the way to Guantanamo. Damn - terra, terra, terra.

[spanone]

56. cnn now reporting 'authorities' are calling it a 'terrorist attack'

[yurbud]

57. Brutus MacGregor aged 84 choked on his haggis this morn' aer the terrist ta blame?