'Strange smell' in London tunnel causes uknown illness
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[B]The cause of illness in seven pedestrians at Greenwich Foot Tunnel in south-east London is unknown, the fire brigade and police have said.[/B]
The patients were checked by London Ambulance Service after becoming unwell shortly before 19:30 BST on Friday.
The foot tunnel, which goes under the River Thames linking Greenwich with the Isle of Dogs, was shut for more than an hour and reopened at 20:53.
[B]The Metropolitan Police said there had been reports of an "unusual smell".[/B]
An ambulance service spokesman said the pedestrians were assessed at the scene and did not require hospital treatment.
London Fire Brigade attended the scene between about 19:30 and 21:00.
A fire brigade spokesman said: "We carried out a sweep of the area with our detection, identification, and monitoring equipment.
"Once we established there were no elevated readings we left the scene."
[B]He said after getting the reports an ambulance crew, a cycle responder and a hazardous area response team were sent.[/B]
The Met spokesman said: "We had reports just after 19:00 BST of an unusual smell in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
"A number of people reported difficulty breathing, but we are not aware of any casualties.
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"The cause of the smell is unknown."[/B]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Inside_Greenwich_Foot_Tunnel.jpg[/img]
[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19379352[/URL]
zombies
The zombie apocalypse is upon us lads
Get your dosh out quick like!
Bet it's dead people hidden in the walls and under the pavement.
Bloody hell, close off the underground and weld those doors, you muppets!
reminds me of miasma
someone farted
mystery solved
It's the Dark Ones, better nuke that shit soon. :tinfoil:
I smell SCP
I remember I once accidentally ripped out a quiet one on the tube, and as soon as the doors opened at the next stop the carriage I was in became unusually empty
[QUOTE=a-cookie;37402175]reminds me of miasma[/QUOTE]
Urist McWanker has been taken by a strange mood!
Call in the fringe division.
Metro 2033
[QUOTE=0mighty_K;37402222]I smell SCP[/QUOTE]
I INSTANTLY thought of that as well.
Kind of sad actually...
[QUOTE=a-cookie;37402175]reminds me of miasma[/QUOTE]
Tantrum spiral inbound.
Oh shit the exact same thing happened in Stockholm last month!
[url]http://www.thelocal.se/42110/20120719/[/url]
I love that tunnel it's so cool when you walk down it. I'd love to cycle down it.
[quote]The foot tunnel, which goes under the River Thames linking Greenwich with the [b]Isle of Dogs[/b], was shut for more than an hour and reopened at 20:53.
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I think I found the problem.
obviously the Martians have resorted to chemical warfare
[QUOTE=Reds;37402163]Bloody hell, close off the underground and weld those doors, you muppets![/QUOTE]
That'll allow the foul smell to materialize into a foul organic mass.
[QUOTE=SCopE5000;37402435]That'll allow the foul smell to materialize into a foul organic mass.[/QUOTE]
So it'll become a H.P. Lovecraft monster?
It's probably far fetched but I hope it's not a biological attack
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;37402502]It's probably far fetched but I hope it's not a biological attack[/QUOTE]
if it is, whoever did this either used an undetectable, slow-working substance or they had no idea which chemicals they were using and just used something foul-smelling instead of something deadly. I'd say there's nothing to worry about, unless one of the people exposed has to check into a hospital any time soon.
[QUOTE=0mighty_K;37402222]I smell SCP[/QUOTE]
It was probably another █████████, like what happened in █████████
it's just a concoction of burger king, piss and sweat.