I’d also considered this, also don’t taxi doors lock automatically to prevent non paying runners offf?? Are the media trying to invent the hero story?? TWT
Once things settle down it may be that the taxi driver simply had a lucky escape. It looks like a LEVC tx taxi, I think the doors lock when the wheels are turning. It also has a huge bulkhead that separates the drivers compartment from the passenger area. This started with one of his mates and carried on with others like the Mayor.
The earlier reports stated that the driver had diverted the attack. I think he had a very lucky escape. My mate received a minor bravery award some years ago. He was said to have heroically driven his truck in front of a line of traffic preventing a loose mobile home from crashing into the queue. In fact he was pissed off with waiting and was driving round to the front of the queue to barge in. He said to me “The Police said I was a hero, so I didn’t want to disappoint them or my family” every time he played it down, other said he was being modest. Actually he was just a Pratt.
I think you're right about the lucky escape although I thought the car looked more like a normal Nissan Quashqai/Honda CRV or similar.
In a word, yes. Save for the taxi driver categorically stating that what they have printed / said is untrue, the truth will only emerge following any inquest / public inquiry. That is what the media rely upon. MoH
The inquest should not be to determine whether the taxi driver/suspected hero was an actual hero or only a fabricated hero by the media?
To be clear, none of this is the taxi driver’s fault. The media are all too quick to label someone a hero in this scenario when the likelihood is that he was just very lucky that his passenger in the back did not put his IED together properly. As an example, look at how Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III was portrayed. He was a pilot doing his job - he said as much himself. MoH
get a grip man! We are discussing the press role in making the driver a hero. No one is dissing the driver
Exactly, part of the discussion is the rapid response nowadays, fire arms officers are extremely quick to respond which gives front line members of the public both protection and mere minutes to react themselves often in heroic ways, anything that helps contain the terrorists, protect others, even filming can all help the police who you know now won't be long in responding, for example these things never end up in sieges anymore, we have lots of heroes amongst ordinary people thank god.
AFOs / SFOs / STFOs are all trained to respond (and suitably equipped). They do their job. I’ve worked alongside them. They do not see themselves as heroes. MoH
Anyone who describes themselves as a hero isn’t. The bloke in the hi vis who ran towards the car and the bloke who stepped in to help the driver. ****ing hero’s end of.
That’s my point. If an individual does something they are not trained to do / not paid to do… heroes. MoH
