# More explosions on London Underground

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-explosions-on-london-underground/313468>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 21, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-explosions-on-london-underground/313468 "2005-07-21T14:09:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-explosions-on-london-underground/313468/1 "2005-07-21T14:09:46Z")

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From accounts they don’t appear to be ‘serious.’ BBC are reporting they may be detonators only and dummy bombs. A bus also has top deck windows blown out. No casualties, except possibly someone holding a rucksack that exploded.

Seems odd. Faulty bombs? Botched attempt to just cause panic.

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**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-explosions-on-london-underground/313468/2 "2005-07-21T14:12:45Z")

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> [@tagos](#):
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> From accounts they don’t appear to be ‘serious.’ BBC are reporting they may be detonators only and dummy bombs. A bus also has top deck windows blown out. No casualties, except possibly someone holding a rucksack that exploded.
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> Seems odd. Faulty bombs? Botched attempt to just cause panic.

didn’t see post in BBQ pit. Can this one be closed?

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-explosions-on-london-underground/313468/3 "2005-07-22T02:17:21Z")

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Don’t dismiss these attempted, botched, copycat, etc. bombings out of hand.  
The explosive is quite unpredictable if not made just exactly right.  
Wait for the experts analysis.