I read on the internet a few weeks back, a news story about how basically, terrorists, generally speaking, are a bit rubbish. What inspired that news story was the sending to jail of some wannabe terrorists who thought they'd blow up JFK airport, armed with a monkey wrench, a French dictionary and some fine leather jackets1. They failed, because, well, it's actually quite hard to blow up an airport with those three items. It seems that it's quite common for people not to do their research before they attempt to do blowing up stuff.
Take in point, these car bombs (by the way, thanks to everyone who asked if I was okay in all this (hi Raych)). First, they crash one of the cars into a lamp-post in one of the busiest parts of the entire country, though they do it at 2am when the place is considerably emptier (though not completely so). If they were hoping it would go off then, well, they obviously weren't very good at the whole making a car bomb concept. If they were hoping to leave it there till it blew up in the morning (more likely, given the other bomb found) then they probably shouldn't have crashed it into a lamp-post in a part of town that would still have people in at that time of the morning and where someone was bound to report it to the police. Which they did. But then they left the other car parked at the side of a busy road in central London. And this is where their poor planning really shines through. Westminster has ridiculously low council tax, something like the second lowest in the country. The reasons for this are many; the high proportion of tourists with lots of money, all the big businesses, all the rich folk, all the shopping, the relatively small size of the city. But if you ask a resident why council tax is so low, they'll tell you it's because of parking tickets. Westminster Council employs a ridiculously large number of parking wardens, fines at the drop of a hat, and makes it nigh on impossible for you to complain. And given the number of rich folk living in the borough who just have to drive everywhere, it makes them a lot of money.
And so, if you'd asked a resident or worker in Westminster what would happen to a car parked at the side of the road without the correct permit displayed or meter paid or badge in place, the answer would be "they'd get fined in about five minutes and towed within the hour". Which is exactly what happened. Terrorists; generally a bit rubbish.
1 Imagine life was as simple as Monkey Island. You wouldn't do work, you'd just have to use pen with paper. Mind you, getting the paper would probably involve your stapler, the hair of a goat and giving Phil from accounts a mild diarrhetic. Simpler times.
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