i't a work of art honest guv'ner - the bomb scare in west london

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i dunno whetehr it affected any of you guys on the way into work in london,

big area of hammersmith and shepars bush closed off, cue women walking into police station claiming it were her packages and it was a 'work of art'

exciting stuff

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:13 (twenty years ago)

she's going to be popular.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:31 (twenty years ago)

might've affected me if i hadn't been here at 8:10 this morning... but probably not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4945764.stm

why anyone would target hammersmith / the bush for bombs, or indeed, for art is beyond me. we're too busy going after after each other with cleavers...

yeah, what a numpty.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:32 (twenty years ago)

she obvivously thought it were something to be proud of poping into the police station and fessing up so she could get the credit

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

She'd better start writing her Edinburgh Festival show now.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

"poping into the police station"

IRA was it?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:08 (twenty years ago)

One of these days I'm going to plant an actual bomb in every art college in the Greater London area.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:09 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if her parents are proud of her

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:12 (twenty years ago)

i blame damien hurst

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

They probably financed it out of their seven-figure family trust fund (xpost).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what she'd have said if someone had died in a house fire while the emergency services were busy poking and prodding her "art works"...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:30 (twenty years ago)

has anyone actually seen them?

i can't find pictures online someone at work saw them on news 24 and are apparently just drainpipes with nails super glued them

i wanna see

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

> drainpipes with nails

ouch, bad choice of media given that bombs come in both 'pipe' and 'nail' varieties.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:57 (twenty years ago)

and bad choice of area given the bbc bombs, hammersmith bridge bombs, shepherd's bush 21st july bombs.

i hope she fails her course.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

One of these days I'm going to plant an actual bomb in every art college in the Greater London area.

Way to get raided at 4 am!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

(xp myself. um, she's 36 so unlikely to be a student)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41603000/jpg/_41603162_suspect_kacages203.jpg

ominous

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

hey she's made a valid and thought-provo... twit.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

I hear her next work will be an installation featuring herself engaging in gnashing/wailing marathons for up to 12 hours a time in a room bearing a strong resemblance to an prison cell.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:01 (twenty years ago)

well I had a dull morning :-( taking the cat to the Vee Ee Tee i had to get off at Acton and go back home again. not interesting, but 100% relevant

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:10 (twenty years ago)

"if you can draw pictures of mohammad i can put some soft toys with nails on them in hammersmith" etc.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I hadn't heard about this. I take the bus to Hammersmith and was wondering why the traffic was so bad on my way to work this morning.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Here's the lady behind it all:

http://www.sflink.net/events/artgallery/planet_fresh.htm

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I've seen her on The Armstrongs.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh. My. God. I "hate" to pick on what a doctor would call a Grolie, but that artist really ought to fuck back off to Middle Earth.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:40 (twenty years ago)

Alan! spookily enough i did the Vee Ee Tee run yesterday morning also! (apparently Mr Chang has "the heart of an ox" - a vet said this, and i presume she's familiar with oxes' hearts)

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

From the City of London contingency planning mailing list:

Suspect Packages being sent to Businesses - Please inform Mail Handling Personnel

Information from SO13 that a number of businesses ( no specific type of business) in the South East have been targeted with a suspect Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's). These have been in the form of a Jiffy Bag, contain a bottle with a black substance. The most recent was sent on the 2nd August to a political premises in Cambridge, It had 8 first class stamps and a Cambridge post mark.

When examined by an explosives officer, it was confirmed as an IED. Please make all mail handling staff aware of this message, and should they suspect any such package sent to their premises please ask to contact police immediately.

Has there been anything about this on the news at all?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

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