While rushing to work this morning, I wondered how they found the London car bomb
It turns out some medics rushing to treat someone at a nightclub noticed a car filling with smoke, Time reports.
Savvy bomb-makers know to use cars with tinted windows, I suppose.
Seriously - I've seen one photo of the car so far, and you can clearly see from the rear passenger window through the rear window. No tint.
It'd be a stretch to think that this stroke of luck would lead government officials to ban all tinted windows in a vain hope for a repeat of this luck. But then again, they banned nail clippers from airplanes.
Ridiculous.
At least there's a new argument to use on co-workers who believe coming to work in the downtown core is somehow dangerous: some recently arrested plotters were recorded saying that they were justifying their attacks on nightclubs by arguing that they're dens of vice and immorality, therefore they 'deserve it', according to their twisted logic.
So clubbing is more dangerous now, terrorism-wise, then going to work. How oddly reassuring.
It'll be interesting, though, to see whether London's ubiquitous network of CCTV cameras will help the cops capture their suspects.