The chod of the troubles

[Jim Bell]

There are no winners.  Only Losers.

A moment of silence for some of the fallen.

 

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[Supernaut]

Hmm... last one a bit close to the bone maybe?

[Felly Magic]

I have a book called Buses Under Fire, which is about this era in Norn Iron, and it's a bloody good read

[sierraman]

The last one unless I'm mistaken was the actual car bomb wasn't it. Omagh?

[Supernaut]

The last one unless I'm mistaken was the actual car bomb wasn't it. Omagh?

 

Indeed it is.

[Jim Bell]

Nice looking car if you can discount all of the associated death and suffering. Which I suppose is a lot to expect.

[Urko]

I watched a documentary on the Bomb disposal guys.  I was surprised how little animosity they bore for the bombers - they were all about getting the job done.

 

One thing that really stuck in my mind was the counter-intuitive "disrupter" they used on the early car bombs.  It was a modified shotgun - so the idea was, one of them walked up to the car bomb and fired the disrupter straight into it.  Because the early bombs weren't very sophisticated, the disrupter destroyed the entire detonation machinery and rendered the bomb safe.  I must say it'd take a lot more balls than I've got to fire a shotgun into a car full of explosives.

[rantingYoof]

I suspect a few of these are probably simply aftermath shots of people trying to start a GOONA on a Friday, or something.

[Urko]

In another part of the documentary one of the ex-army guys was recounting how he got called to a report of a bomb in Austin's in (London)Derry and, concerned that the bombers might still be there, one of them saw something move in the dark and shot it.  It turned out he'd shot one of the clothing dummies.

[Cavcraft]

Fair play to those coppers trying to push the Viva estate nearer to the fire.

[Brodders]

The last one unless I'm mistaken was the actual car bomb wasn't it. Omagh?

I don't know if it is just me, but I feel very unnerved when I see that picture of the Cavalier.

[Cheggers]

No, it's not just you. I was caught up in the Ealing bomb and I find all the pictures pretty unsettling

[Jim Bell]

Cavalier pic removed.

 

Mods feel free to delete the lot if the thread is causing unease. Does seem to be.

[Brodders]

Cavalier pic removed.

 

Mods feel free to delete the lot if the thread is causing unease. Does seem to be.

Don't worry about what I said, it's just me being a bit odd about seeing things like this (like the fact I felt a bit funny whenever I saw the "infamous shite from history" thread, even though it has some solid gold shite)

 

In my opinion you can carry on as usual, if you want.

[sierraman]

I thin it's unnerving as you know the horror of what was about to happen minutes later.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I haven't looked for a picture of it, but there was a Mk1 Cortina used to take one of the victims of Bloody Sunday to hospital that often crops up on TV. It's a 4 door, don't know what colour because I've only ever seen it in b&w. But it's got a Lotus type flash and because of this car I hate Lotus stripes on 4 door Cortina's.

Maybe I should save this shit for my therapist.

[PiperCub]

I watched a documentary on the Bomb disposal guys.  I was surprised how little animosity they bore for the bombers - they were all about getting the job done.

 

One thing that really stuck in my mind was the counter-intuitive "disrupter" they used on the early car bombs.  It was a modified shotgun - so the idea was, one of them walked up to the car bomb and fired the disrupter straight into it.  Because the early bombs weren't very sophisticated, the disrupter destroyed the entire detonation machinery and rendered the bomb safe.  I must say it'd take a lot more balls than I've got to fire a shotgun into a car full of explosives.

 

They've got more balls in their little fingers than I've got in total. You couldn't pay me enough to do that job. True guts.

[Tamworthbay]

I watched a documentary on the Bomb disposal guys.  I was surprised how little animosity they bore for the bombers - they were all about getting the job done.

 

One thing that really stuck in my mind was the counter-intuitive "disrupter" they used on the early car bombs.  It was a modified shotgun - so the idea was, one of them walked up to the car bomb and fired the disrupter straight into it.  Because the early bombs weren't very sophisticated, the disrupter destroyed the entire detonation machinery and rendered the bomb safe.  I must say it'd take a lot more balls than I've got to fire a shotgun into a car full of explosives.

my father in law did two tours as a bomb disposal officer (Explosive ordnance disposal or EOD as he would say, I would get a look if I called it bomb disposal). He has spoken about it a lot but I don't get the feeling there is any great animosity. It's fascinating to hear about the technical side of things and sometimes easy to forget the suffering on all sides caused by it.

[Faker]

Carnage

[Station]

@Iceland "fucken deluvery late agin." #icelandrtwats

[michael t]

Good thread this, needless to say every picture has a sad and morbid tale behind it and the lives of those lost and the actions of the perpetrators should never be forgotten.

 

But there were some truly superb cars blown to pieces, funny how if we saw a new Astra or Mondeo blown to pieces we wouldn't batt an eyelid but looking at the equivalent cars 40 years ago is quite saddening. Imagine the value of them in parts alone   

 

I agree that the Cavalier picture is really eerie and quite distressing to look at simply due to the appalling events that were to take place a few moments later

[sierraman]

I used to drive an Iceland van like that. In fact it did a pretty good impression of that when the fuse box caught fire outside work. Those red crates you can see used to be the fucking bane of my life. Full of Cider, sausage rolls and Gateaux's to deliver to some of the ghastly customers they had.

[trigger]

I must admit, it seems a bit of a morbid subject for a thread and i can understand why some people don't like it.