Tackling subway bombers.....
The is old news now but it is as ironic today as it was 9 days ago when I read it on Wizbang. One of the failed bombers in the second London attack tries to get away and from the Sun in London:“But the bomber tried to get away and some men — I think about three of them — tried to jump on him and stop him getting away. They were trying to hold him down but couldn’t.
“The bomber ran up the escalator — but the one that was for people coming down to the platform — and got away.”
From Wizbang:
Yo know- We Americans consistently get belittled as being too willing to use force. And I'm not trying to insult our British friends... But (genuinely) do you see this guy getting away in New York????
Maybe my arrogant American side is showing but I wouldn't have wanted to be him for that 20 seconds before the door opened if that were here in the States. I don't know the layout of the train etc but I just think in my gut that this guy wouldn't have made it out the door except on a stretcher in this country. We would have killed the guy. I'm not saying the Brits did anything wrong - I just think it is a cultural difference. YMMV
We play American Football, they play soccer? This could happen in Boston or Montreal but certainly not NY, Chicago, Detroit,.... The British special forces are some of the most esteemed fighting men in the world. The Tornado pilots are insane and do things our pilots don't consider trying. But the average Brit lives in a culture so passive that 3 guys couldn't manage to tackle one guy and hold him down? They have no experience being aggressive so they don't know how. In the NY subway the cops would have found little pieces of him left. I would also like to see him try this in Sydney where they play Australian rules football.
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