Take the Tube, Get Arrested

Excellent article: A blow-by-blow account about being arrested on the Tube as a would-be bomber, for wearing unseasonal clothes (during unseasonal weather)…



“A London underground station was evacuated and part of a main east-west line closed in a security alert on Thursday, three weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 people on the transport network, police said. (Reuters)”
This Reuters story was written while the police were detaining me in Southwark tube station and the bomb squad was checking my rucksack. When they were through, the two explosive specialists walked out of the tube station smiling and commenting: “Nice laptop.” The officers offered apologies on behalf of the Metropolitan police. Then they arrested me.

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