[IceFire]

Definately not something to trifle with.  These sorts of things need to be dealt with rapidly.

I've seen the photos and read the survivors reports from the Halifax explosion.  Two ships, filled with explosives, collided and their cargos exploded.  It flattened half of what was then Halifax.  The devastation was second only to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan during WWII.

I find the subject of WWII fascinating and this goes to show that despite it having occured 60 years ago, its legacy still remains in one fashion or another.

[Blue Lion]

The wreck is 60 years old. I don't think this is classified stuff.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I was just being cynical BL but if you have ever seen British tabloids you'd understand.
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[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Hunt Smacker
It seems a bit wreckless.

No, the problem is that there is a wreck.

Of course what I don't get is the slow response by Britain. "OMFG we could all die from a wreck full of explosives...Quick action is needed! Let's conduct an investigation to discover what solutions are possible,  then form a commitee to discuss what solution to take, then form another commitee to decide whether or not to take action, then elect representatives to decide what action to take, then open the bidding to take a solution...oh crap, turns out there was a mistake in deciding the members of the original commitee."

I can almost see some fisherman setting off the explosives by accident while Parliament decided to reveal the existence of the wreck. Anyone want to bet that they knew about it 20 years prior to the investigation/discussion in 2001?

[Rictor]

I say you evacuate the city and send Tony boy down there to disarm it. Its a win/win situtation.

[Night Hammer]

If it goes off this will just be another thing to blame on the U.S. ,make everyone hate us more.......great

[Rictor]

..what? Thats makes no sense, what does this have to do with the US?

[Bobboau]

doesn't realy matter...
though didn't it say the bombs were from the US?

[Ford Prefect]

Originally posted by Rictor
I say you evacuate the city and send Tony boy down there to disarm it. Its a win/win situtation.

Folks, this is a man with good ideas.

And if he sends a distress call then we send Bush to rescue him. Heh heh, can't you just see them both bumbling around in the dark, rusty corridors in environmental suits, crashing into stuff and falling over?

[StratComm]

It's inspecific, but that can be surmised from the fact that it was an American freighter.  For the purpose of its cargo at the time of its sinking, the distinction is basically irrelivant.  Of course, since it hasn't really been US property in the last 60 years, and since I doubt many Britons would have wanted the US to not get involved 60 years ago, Night Hammer's statement makes little to no sense.

[Night Hammer]

a US cargo ship that lies half-submerged on a sandbank in the Thames, only two kilometres from the Kentish town.

Kiss my ass, thats what it has to do with the US

[Bobboau]

I do beleve his comment was sarcasticly directed at the tendency to blame anythng bad that happens in the world on America.

[Bri_Dog]

So.....why wasn't it removed in the last 60 years?

[Ford Prefect]

By "America" I assume you mean either "terrorism" or "El Nino."

[Night Hammer]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I do beleve his comment was sarcasticly directed at the tendency to blame anythng bad that happens in the world on America.

Thanks Bob

[Fineus]

Meh, that'll teach the British government to leave weapons lying around for 60 years in their own capital - while trying to play bulldog around the rest of the world with the real global powers.

A case of "we need to clean up our own country, then worry about other peoples" at its most literal!

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I was just being cynical BL but if you have ever seen British tabloids you'd understand.
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"HIDDEN TIMEBOMB OF WW2 CARGO TO DESTROY LONDON!!!"

Nah....needs a poor ryhming / alliterative pun

"DERELICT DISASTER DUE!"

And to blame the Germans

"DERELICT DISASTER DUE! - THANKS, FRITZ"

Couple that with a Daily Mirror 'crusade', half-bake and you're done.

EDIT; actually, need to blame asylum seekers as well

DERELICT DISASTER DUE AS ASYLUM SEEKERS THREATEN THAMES WRECK
The Daily Moro...Mirror exposes how the Krauts 1939 warmongering was all a plan to doom London to disaster in 2004!
Plus!  Robert Kilroy Silk explains how we can blame the EU and Arabs for our own civic ineptitude. And how you can help by raising our sal....joining our campaign!

[Hunter]

LOL, I can see it now. So much effort into stopping terrorism, and in the end we blow ourselves up

[Janos]

Sucks to be you!

[Petrarch of the VBB]

York might regain its position as the rightful capital of England, so it can't be all bad.