Police have cordoned off the road, and the Twitter rumour is a man threatening to blow himself up
https://twitter.com/#!/search/goodge%20st
fuck.
Watching on Sky News atm.
Wow. Crazy brits.
The news streams seem to infer he has taken an HGV training office hostage due to failing his HGV Exam twice.
bbc's take...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17869815
#tcr Video interview of staff member who saw spoke with "bomber" http://bit.ly/IDjkeH
just saw there here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/27/tottenham-court-road-evacuated-bomb-threat_n_1458437.html
Sounds like it happened in the building shared with the Huff Post / AOL. Its about 100 yards or so up the road from our office.
Wow!
Reminds me of the time the guy across the street initiated a standoff....
http://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/my-gun-is-drawn-i'm-surrounded-by-police-they-shut-down-my-street-emt-is-here/
...real life in your face drama. It's what's for dinner.
I remember that happening with you mate.
This was a touch less dramatic. He threw some paperwork out of the building. I also understand he lit up a Capstan full strength, which led to the snipers being deployed on local rooftops.
Ultimately he was simply arrested though!
>> Crazy brits?
He had just come back from Norway :-)
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