On monday, 14.40 hrs, a conductor on the local train that had been going back and forth between Aachen and Hamm in western Germany since 04.40 hrs, found a piece of luggage and no owner in sight. At Dortmund central station, along the way in the Ruhr area, he dropped the luggage off at the lost and found center.
People there opened the luggage to check for an owner and found a professional bomb with timer, wires and bottles of gas and butane. The police closed the station and started to evacuate the people.
Today, tuesday, at Koblenz in the Rhine valley, a second bomb was found. It had been deposited in the station on monday. It was off the same construction as the one in Dortmund. Terrorism is heavily suspected but blackmail is still possible. There was a similar case in Dresden in 2003.
Now, what would you do if you were a conductor on a passenger train?
Would you go to the nearest station with a lost and found center? Or would you stop the train and start evacuating everybody on board?
greetings,
Marc Immeker
marcimmeker wrote: On monday, 14.40 hrs, a conductor on the local train that had been going back and forth between Aachen and Hamm in western Germany since 04.40 hrs, found a piece of luggage and no owner in sight. At Dortmund central station, along the way in the Ruhr area, he dropped the luggage off at the lost and found center. People there opened the luggage to check for an owner and found a professional bomb with timer, wires and bottles of gas and butane. The police closed the station and started to evacuate the people. Today, tuesday, at Koblenz in the Rhine valley, a second bomb was found. It had been deposited in the station on monday. It was off the same construction as the one in Dortmund. Terrorism is heavily suspected but blackmail is still possible. There was a similar case in Dresden in 2003. Now, what would you do if you were a conductor on a passenger train? Would you go to the nearest station with a lost and found center? Or would you stop the train and start evacuating everybody on board? greetings, Marc Immeker
I would think, that he would probably need a fresh uniform to change into upon receipt of the information about the bomb in the bag. The reality of today's world is that there is always a potential to find a bomb in a dropped bag in a public place. It would be best to err on the side of caution than to have to be a victim of a bomb, or to try and explain away an individual's inaction in regards to a suspicious bag in a public place. We are in WWIII, and the fighting is live in the Middle East, with indiscrimanent acts of violence capable of popping out anywhere, globally; ie., New York, Madrid, London, for starters. It is time we took this kind of thing seriously.
First, they broke the first rule of unattended luggage. You don't touch it. You assume it's a bomb. Evacuate everyone and let the police terrorism and/or bomb guys take care of it. Being this occurred in Europe, I'm surprised it didn't happen this way.
If it happened on the train, stop the train away from the station and other populated areas and evacuate everyone. Once again, you let the police handle it...literally.
Mark
samfp1943 wrote: marcimmeker wrote: On monday, 14.40 hrs, a conductor on the local train that had been going back and forth between Aachen and Hamm in western Germany since 04.40 hrs, found a piece of luggage and no owner in sight. At Dortmund central station, along the way in the Ruhr area, he dropped the luggage off at the lost and found center. People there opened the luggage to check for an owner and found a professional bomb with timer, wires and bottles of gas and butane. The police closed the station and started to evacuate the people. Today, tuesday, at Koblenz in the Rhine valley, a second bomb was found. It had been deposited in the station on monday. It was off the same construction as the one in Dortmund. Terrorism is heavily suspected but blackmail is still possible. There was a similar case in Dresden in 2003. Now, what would you do if you were a conductor on a passenger train? Would you go to the nearest station with a lost and found center? Or would you stop the train and start evacuating everybody on board? greetings, Marc Immeker I would think, that he would probably need a fresh uniform to change into upon receipt of the information about the bomb in the bag. The reality of today's world is that there is always a potential to find a bomb in a dropped bag in a public place. It would be best to err on the side of caution than to have to be a victim of a bomb, or to try and explain away an individual's inaction in regards to a suspicious bag in a public place. We are in WWIII, and the fighting is live in the Middle East, with indiscrimanent acts of violence capable of popping out anywhere, globally; ie., New York, Madrid, London, for starters. It is time we took this kind of thing seriously.
TOO SERIOUSLY? Does "Madrid" mean anything to you?
Yes, I would prefer not to have to take some precautions that have become commonplace, but to ignore the reality of the world situation is insane.
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