Yeah, but there is a 100% chance that if somebody wanted to get a bomb into an Olympics venue, they could easily. (Likewise on any aeroplane.) They just need to insert the bomb rectally, and they can bypass virtually any checkpoint security system.

All this money being spent on security in London is just a waste of time, designed to make us all afraid.

Are they genuinely that incompetent, or are they intentionally letting stuff through during the tests for whatever reason?

Isn't there a 50-50 chance for everything in life?

Just sayin.

Serves our government right by cutting cost on everything, only in England would be cut corners on the biggest event in years and try and get security on the cheap, makes me sick.

Just just had a vision of a false flag happening at the olympics, and the media saying something like "The terrorists got into the Olympics, that was the most heavily secured buildind in the UK, they can get any where and everywhere, action must me taken now!"

Haven't though much about the Olympics, I've raised an eybrow or two at G4S (who incidently also secure the Court houses in Birmingham also, my mate who works there told me yesterday) and the OTT missile and air defence, and of course all the other slobby tragedies regarding it.

Only now am I considering, have they just gone OTT? Or have they gone OTT for a reason? Surely the budget is important? *Why* would they go OTT?

Originally posted by amongusJust sayin.

...YOLO
#just sayin..

theres more than a 50/50 chance that everybody hates these words

#said*

I have a security job currently, and I'm familiar with the company G4S. I'm not surprised as such a situation happened very recently with my employer. They won a contract, and ended up getting into a bind in terms of the number of employees they needed to have by opening day. They essentially hired EVERYONE who applied. No interview process at all. If you showed up you had the job. What ensued was a ton of people quitting, unreliable, getting fired, some with obvious personality issues, and the list goes on. One of the guys in training actually was on probation- which means they didn't even ask/mention that you can't get a security license in this state if that's the case.

Given my personal experience as to how this sort of thing goes down, I would be VERY concerned about the security of the Olympics for sure. This kind of thing is not what you want to have happen, because there's not going to be much trial and error process when it comes to the Olympics. With my company, weeding out the rotten apples took some time, a couple months even. They won't have such a luxury when it comes to an event like this where from day one somebody could be looking to engage in terrorism. In fact, I'd be a little concerned as to the security employees intentions. This company is trying to fill a quota, cuts corners, and hires the wrong individual because they didn't dig deep enough- image the ramifications.

I'm still right on the fence about this. On one hand, we've been hearing that terrorists want to kill us all, and that they will do so at the next best opportunity, for years now. On the other hand, we keep hearing all these stories about a lack of security.

Either way, does anyone consider the fact that this whole thing might be a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Is it so strange to think that, if everyone is talking about how easy it would be to blow up a stadium or two if someone were to attempt it, someone might be encouraged to do just that? I'm not suggesting that we keep silent about shoddy security such as this, don't get me wrong. But if I were someone planning to kill a large number of people at some point, would this whole debacle not make the Olympic Games more interesting for me?

There's no room for 50/50 in events like this, you either do it right, no corners cut, or people are going to die.

Originally posted by n00bUK

Originally posted by amongusJust sayin.

...YOLO
#just sayin..

theres more than a 50/50 chance that everybody hates these words

#said*

Derp, derp...herp, derp.

Is saying 50/50 someone's attempt to make it look like they have some sort of hard data or numbers from which this 50/50 came from. To me it sounds like some a-hole is just saying "maybe someone might do it"

Originally posted by DavidWillts
Is saying 50/50 someone's attempt to make it look like they have some sort of hard data or numbers from which this 50/50 came from. To me it sounds like some a-hole is just saying "maybe someone might do it"

Bingo......that's my point.

They are just stirring the pot, and covering their asses in case something does happen.

Imagine how many contracts G4S could lose if something does happen. Perhaps they're only providing one layer of security here.