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Do you think I am over reacting?

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noogles · 22/12/2006 12:14

Just read that terror attack in Britain over Xmas is highly likely. I am working at bluewater and am starting to get a bit paranoid as working xmas eve. I mean very paranoid to the point where I want to cry! Am I being silly?

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hulababy · 22/12/2006 12:26

I think they have these same threat story out every year. I don't think you are any more likely to be involced or caught up in a terrorist attack this Christmas Eve as any other day TBH.

Molesworth · 22/12/2006 12:28

noogles, I am feeling nervous as well and tbh I think it is irresponsible of the govt to announce that a terrorist attack over Christmas is almost certain

I shall be using the tube and overland train over Christmas and I am definitely feeling more nervous than usual.

Sorry not to be reassuring but I know how you feel!

MerryMellowmas · 22/12/2006 12:29

I heard this last week,I was a bit stressed as he was working last Saturday and was told by another mum on the school run that something was going to happen in Edinburgh or Glasgow.

I think they do it every year though.

MerryMellowmas · 22/12/2006 12:29

dh was working

Molesworth · 22/12/2006 12:30

I don't remember hearing that an attack was "almost certain" last Christmas though?

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noogles · 22/12/2006 12:31

Im glad Im not the only one then. I just keep getting really stressed out about it,so much so I want to ring in sick. I know its silly as I have worked ther 7 years!! and they definitely do say it every year, but now we have ds its more of a worry iykwim!!

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hulababy · 22/12/2006 12:41

But where has this warning come from? Has the Government actually given out this information? I can't find anything on the BBC to tell me.

Bekks · 22/12/2006 12:44

I am pretty sure that Radio 4 (Ian Stevens?) said this morning that no attacks were expected over Christmas

pooka · 22/12/2006 12:44

They announce that an attack is almost inevitable and nothing happens. People are cross. they don't announce that smething may happen and it does. People are outraged.
Think it's a no win situation for the authorities. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

hulababy · 22/12/2006 12:46

I remember the Christmas after 9/11 and after the London bombings there were the same threat stpries about. I remember being told that our local, large, shopping centre had stock piled their body bags just in case. But these rumours seem to have been passed about for years TBH - I remember them from the IRA times.

NAB3 · 22/12/2006 12:48

I had read that an attack at Bluewater had been foiled. Of course you aren't being silly. This first time I went on a tube after the July bombings I was looking at everyone, wouldn't sit near anyone with a rucksack and was very jumpy. It is only natural in the world we currently live in.

I was at Bluewater on wednesday. maybe you served me?

BlueDaisy · 22/12/2006 13:00

The Home Office website says threat level is severe, which it has been for months - but the highest level is the next one up - critical. Which means an attack is imminent.

Know how you feel tho, I have last minute shopping to at Bkuewater and would much rather not go

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noogles · 22/12/2006 13:04

NAB3 I wasnt working weds but was shopping over there!!!! And had dinner at Nandos!! Maybe our paths crossed tho? i wonder how many mnetters I have actually served tho? Now theres a thought?

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noogles · 22/12/2006 13:08

hulababy I read it on The mirrors website it had a link to reuters news about it.And on another site,cant remember the other one sorry!

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doyouwantfrankincensewiththat · 25/12/2006 21:58

shopping centres keep stocks of bodybags???

FestivelyFoggyFloss · 25/12/2006 22:00

Seems unlikely to me. They would surely come from paramedics etc - after all a qualified person would need to check that the person was actually dead?

MerlinsBeard · 25/12/2006 22:01

the risk of threat is the same as it has been during the year its justthat the powers that be decided to tell ppl at xmas to make them more aware of say bags left unattended for eg

mummytosteven · 25/12/2006 22:02

I am so naive it wouldn't even have crossed my mind that a shopping centre would be a risky place! I am sure that being on the roads is far more dangerous statistically speaking than working at bluewater.

Judy1234 · 25/12/2006 22:41

Sadly most people in the UK are hurt in their own homes by people who know them. Never forget that statistic. It's where children are most at risk too. There is probably a political purpose anyway in making people afraid. It helps you pass stupid laws which make our legal system as bad as those countries we're supposedly defending ourselves against and thus we get Saudification by the back door I suppose which is appalling for a Cabinet stuffed with lawyers. We need Ms Booth to exercise more influence.

NappiesGalooooooooooooria · 25/12/2006 22:58

why do people always say they look at all the other passengers really closely when they feel the threat is high? whats looking at them sposed to do for you? do they think bombers will be dressed in bomber costumes? or carrying a sign perhaps? its flippant of me, but i have wondered that for some time... esp on airplanes. like, half way to somewhere, you decide the bloke in front is def dodgy, what you gonna do? get off??

to the OP - im sorry you feel tearful and afraid. i hope you can find a way to get the (really quite minimal threat) into a perspective you can handle

pantomimEdam · 25/12/2006 23:12

Hey Xenia, that's the second time I've agreed with you in as many days!

I always think public warnings about threat levels are pretty bloody useless unless they actually tell us what we are supposed to be looking for and what we should do about it if we spot it.

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