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Old 19-12-2016, 21:29
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Why would I watch that?
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:31
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Lets hope all the maimed and injured pull through ok at the hospital . Our thoughts are with them
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:31
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Why would I watch that?
You have a choice, like I have not watching it.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:31
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How about you try to be a little less rude then?
I wasn't the one who made personal comments about another FM. And I do try to be polite, but I don't suffer fools gladly.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:33
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Lets hope all the maimed and injured pull through ok at the hospital . Our thoughts are with them
Yes, just imagine the complete contrast between before where people were enjoying the run up to Christmas with wine, music and a nice atmosphere and then the sound of screaming, sirens and the vision of blood covered pavements, those scenes will never go away even for the people who were not hurt.

Truly shocking.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:35
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Scumbags. I hope people like this are wiped off the face of the Earth. I can't imagine the horror for those involved.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:36
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Guy on Sky suggesting driver may well have been killed and his truck taken....found dead in the cab.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:37
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I'd be helping people not going around filming it, but it does look like the death toll will be much, much higher.
Depends how seriously injured, the 50 injured are, whether the death toll will be higher or not.

It happened a while ago now and it hasn't risen from nine yet.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:37
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They may not give full story either, as their aim will be to keep the public calm...try not to anger locals into protesting etc
Hence why they ask people not to spread rumours or post videos. Unfortunately where social media works for the police, it also sometimes 'works' against them!
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:37
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Bbc just been queried over their terminology- the newscaster just read out online that they are using the German reported terminology ' attack'
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:38
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Yes, just imagine the complete contrast between before where people were enjoying the run up to Christmas with wine, music and a nice atmosphere and then the sound of screaming, sirens and the vision of blood covered pavements, those scenes will never go away even for the people who were not hurt.

Truly shocking.
Their poor families left behind
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:39
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Guy on Sky suggesting driver may well have been killed and his truck taken....found dead in the cab.
Thats what I was surmising..
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:39
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Lets hope all the maimed and injured pull through ok at the hospital . Our thoughts are with them
Goes without saying ian, thoughts to their loved ones too. Horrible to think what many are going through right now.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:40
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I wasn't the one who made personal comments about another FM. And I do try to be polite, but I don't suffer fools gladly.
Oh give over with your whining . There are people dead in Berlin . They went out to enjoy a beautiful city , to see the wonder of Ku 'dam at Christmas , to wander the market . Now they are dead and injured and lives shattered .
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:40
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Goes without saying ian, thoughts to their loved ones too. Horrible to think what many are going through right now.
It is all just horrendous.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:41
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Thats what I was surmising..
Don't surmise, follow this instead.

https://twitter.com/PolizeiBerlin_E?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:42
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The passenger of the truck, who drove to the Christmas market at #Breitscheidplatz, died on the spot.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:43
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I did watch the video, and all I can say is well done to all those people who stopped to tend or comfort those that were injured - it was an horrific situation
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:43
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I'd be helping people not going around filming it, but it does look like the death toll will be much, much higher.
I'd like to think I'd be helping but there's a good chance I'd be running away. I certainly wouldn't be standing around filming it.

It seems that some people's reaction to anything is to take out their phones and start recording. You even see video from inside planes when they have crash landed and are being evacuated. If I was in a situation like that creating a video for Twitter or YouTube would be the last thing on my mind.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:45
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Oh give over with your whining . There are people dead in Berlin . They went out to enjoy a beautiful city , to see the wonder of Ku 'dam at Christmas , to wander the market . Now they are dead and injured and lives shattered .
I'm not whining. Just because people are dead doesn't mean that I don't have a right to reply. If you'd rather stay on topic I suggest you don't make posts like the one above.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:48
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Sky news reports that the police have blocked roads round Xmas markets in Birmingham. They're using vehicles. I got the impression this was done as a precaution before the Berlin attack although I may have picked that up wrongly.
I think they were on alert last week for that.

Horrible events. And a shooting in Zurich as well.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:51
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I'd like to think I'd be helping but there's a good chance I'd be running away. I certainly wouldn't be standing around filming it.

It seems that some people's reaction to anything is to take out their phones and start recording. You even see video from inside planes when they have crash landed and are being evacuated. If I was in a situation like that creating a video for Twitter or YouTube would be the last thing on my mind.
I don't understand it either but then I use my phone as a phone. It seems that many people, especially the young, use their phones as an extension of their life and comment on, or record even the most minor things. A different mindset. I guess
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:54
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Some things need to filmed to record the true atrocities that go on in this world.
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:56
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What is the point of these people doing this, they must be mentally ill?

If they are really doing it for isis, then why, it doesn't achieve anything, a solo attack isn't going to wipe out germany...

No it won't, but if and when normally law abiding Germans unlawfully, but understandably, crack and begin to kick Muslim ass because of this, it plays well to the folks back home, who are told, "see, this is what the West does to our brothers and sisters, come get measured for your suicide vest, or take HGV driving lessons."
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Old 19-12-2016, 21:57
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Is that really the first thing you think about.
this would have been the first thing a great many people will have thought ...especially in Germany itself.
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