Bedbugs have been reported in cinemas, trains, hospitals and schools amid national panic over the issue in France, with many cases focused on Paris. BBC News - Bedbugs: Luton Council deals with 86 bedbug incidents in a year https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67055275 Drastic action in closing the airport?
Is it a cunning plan by Luton Town to make visiting teams uncomfortable? Judging by the clip of most of their fans down there, they'd not notice if they had any fleas...
Be funny if it was a battery powered car that started the fire on the day that electric car insurance went up by 70%. Eeeeeh! I wish I’d bought one
Very few diesel cars explode spontaneously, if that is what they are suggesting but maybe this one somehow did. EVs however do. And if its the battery, they won't be easy to put out. 24 - 48 hours for just one sometimes, ( my mate is a fireman and has shown me some amazing pics of an EV fire still raging hot well over 24 hours after their first visit). Maybe it was the diesel, but its a very bad story if it was an EV and you see little of this issue, caused by thermal runaway in the lithium batteries, in the press
I know of one particular instance of an EV which was sitting on a drive, family at home. Several hours later the thing burst into flames, house evacuated, whole front of the property scorched, 24 hours to extinguish, another 24 to try and cool it down. In the US you are advised not to keep an EV in a garage attached to your house. And they want everyone to have one of these things?
After a Luton away game they herded us onto old buses for the train station. They didn't move for twenty minutes and it was roasting. We eventually chugged away and ended up stuck in traffic on the High Street. It's all Halal butchers, sari shops and Indian restaurants. One drunken lad woke up, looked out the window and said .... ... "Fkn hell, how long have I been asleep!"
Maybe they need a sprinkler system in airport car parks... Andy Hopkinson - Chief Fire Officer, Bedfordshire
BREAKING: Plans are believed to be in place for Luton Town to start playing their home games from the burned out remains of Luton Airport car park. A club official explained "It is a massive upgrade on Kenilworth Road" I, too, suffer from Luton intolerance
Not sure it's possible to " hate" an inanimate object. But EVs are extremely expensive, extremely heavy, have limited mileage, are very expensive indeed to insure, require an almighty amount of destructive mining to make the lithium batteries, which really are prone to thermal runaway if they catch fire. They may be the choice for some, and that's fair enough. But in the round, they are anything but eco friendly, and the power still has to come from somewhere. When I see Sunak, Starmer, Johnson and Milliband using them as their sole means of transport, I'll give them another look. One day down the line, ( well down the line I imagine), they might well be ubiquitous. But they will be lighter, with decent, new tech batteries instead of lithium,( which is a forty year old tech), possibly even self driving in places. In other words I'd say, more like a computer on wheels, which if all the others are the same will be safe enough possibly. But as they are now, they are just economic madness.
