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There are some plans to introduce X-ray scanning and searching at train stations. Commuters will be very frustrated. I'm wondering whether the lives saved by the prevention of a possible terrorist attack will be greater than the fraction of everone's life that's sliced off by being zapped with X-rays twice a day, five days a week throughout their working lives. Plus the increased road rage as people take the car instead.

I was pretty busy today. I had to saw up a strip board into five pieces to solder circiuts on to them. Estates finally moved the lights in my room; it's about three times brighter. I was walking around when I felt this great stab of pain in my toe. I took off my shoe and sock to see a piece of copper wire, the core of a cable, sticking into my toe. Ouch! I have no idea how it got through my shoe.

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[leeflower.livejournal.com]

ouch stabbing!

re: x-ray machines: That would indeed really slow things down. They haven't gone that far in DC yet-- they do, however, have posters up all over the place warning of the dire consequences of leaving bags unattended.

...why can't terrorists just wear warning labels? It would make life so much easier for the rest of us.

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It isn't a thing that they're doing everywhere (yet), just on a few trains as far as I know.
Here in NI the most danger is that someone leaves a bomb, or, indeed, a car on the permanent way, rather than blowing the train up from inside. Still, bombs to Belfast, it's like coals to Newcastle. This patch belongs to the paramilitaries.

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

::nod:: I just wish there was a better solution than metal detectors.

There was a group of artists in new your recently that got the brilliant idea to put a Mac Mini and a projector inside a suitcase to project a series of images on a wall. Which is kind of cool, except that they got the bright idea to bolt it to the side of a public train without talking to anyone. ::facepalm::

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Er...ooops!

[muffinbutt-.livejournal.com]

xray machines, that sounds pertty dumb. but i am very against this "ID" card bullshit, becos that will really help identify a terrorist, when fellow citizens are terrorists, its just grr :@

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Well, at least it may make the victims' mangled corpses easier to identify...

[muffinbutt-.livejournal.com]

oh, YAY!

[crazy-vasey.livejournal.com]

Gonna be interesting to see where they'd put those things on some of the local train stations around where I live. They're not much more than glorified bus stops some of them! There's no staff there anyway at places like Seaham so God only knows what would happen if the detectors actually went off. At a guess, not a lot of use.

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I don't think that there are plans to do this at every station, just some of the big/important ones.