London Hit by Power Cuts
Thu August 28, 2003 02:21 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Power cuts hit transport services across London on Thursday, causing travel chaos for thousands who had to abandon trains and take to the streets.
Street lights went out in scenes reminiscent of the blackout that hit North America earlier this month.

A British Transport Police spokesman said some of London's mainline stations were closed.

"Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, London Bridge are all closed because there are no trains and no power."

"There are trains trapped in Underground tunnels. But we have police at most locations."

No injuries have been reported so far. "It's obviously a wider problem than a local power problem."

A spokesman for the London underground railway system told Reuters: "It appears to be affecting the majority of the London underground.

"Trains in stations are being evacuated. We're trying to get alternative power sources started," he added. He said a majority of the network was affected and blamed a National Grid power failure.

But a spokesman for London Energy, which supplies the British capital, said: "We have no information about this at the moment."

Earlier this month, one of the largest power outages in North American history blacked out New York and other major U.S. and Canadian cities overnight, disrupting life for millions of people and trapping thousands in lifts and on crowded subways.

Sequels blow. :| (N) :nape:

;)

i wonder if there is a reltion between the 2 blackouts? the us gov. said it wasn't done by terrorists though.

Originally posted by Rochester Rhino
i wonder if there is a reltion between the 2 blackouts? the us gov. said it wasn't done by terrorists though.
Unless... it really WAS caused by aliens! And this one is caused by the same aliens, and this is all part of their grand plan to... piss people off. :| :confused:

Damn copycats. First the war, now blackouts. Get a life :rolleyes:


:crazyboy:

haha, feel what it is like in Iraq etc.

hey, thats what everyone expects, right.

There's a lot of things i hate more than the blackout and Bob Saget standup is one of them. The difference between here (canada) and Iraq, is was only a few days here. It's a dangerous Iraq out there; Saddam, Bombimg, Killing, no electricity,deadly chemicals and Apes.

Apes? :confused:

Bob Saget? :confused:

:(

DAMN! Canada are good. How can they take out power across the ocean? All bow down to CANADA!:rockman: :crazyboy:

I demand to know about the Apes in Baghdad! Has the UN been informed? Are they armed? Do they have links to Al Queda? 9/11? Are they hiding Saddam? Are they removing WMD from Iraq as we speak? Are they a distraction, planted by the CIA? Are they sabotaging the oil pipelines? Does Rupert Murdoch know anything about these Apes? Is there a new twist about to be seen, are the APES PLANNING A TAKEOVER?!? Are we about to become the Planet of the Apes? Does life mimic art? Or B-grade movies? Has the War on Terror inadvertantly opened a new front? Has evolutionary science found a new subject matter? Are they civilised? Are they terrorists? Are they gorillas, chimpanzees, or orangutans? Have they been 'sexed up'? Or is the claim based on false evidence? Did Bush deliberately leave them out of his State of the Union address? Are they the REAL reason the US invaded Iraq? Are there any confimed sightings in Afghanistan? Does Bush look suspiciously like an Ape to anyone else? Is this the unravelling of the REAL conspiracy?

Most importantly, WHOSE SIDE ARE THE APES ON???

Where there any games going on in London 2day?? Did they get cancelled?? Anywayz all this black out stuff sucks, but luckily I wasn't hit in the first one:crazyboy:

Amika strike again... :evil: this time my UFO break down in London, so i've to recharge it... :junior:

now you all know the power of the Apes! since you know about the power, maybe you should know about the army! GO! ATTACK MY ARMY OF FLYING, FIRE-BREATHING, METAL CHIMPS! KILL EVERYONE! ........except for that bad guy from Tron... and leave some hot chicks... and get me one of those coconut chocolate bars

... I take it I should leave this thread before the **** literally starts to fly?:crazyboy:

Originally posted by rony31
now you all know the power of the Apes! since you know about the power, maybe you should know about the army! GO! ATTACK MY ARMY OF FLYING, FIRE-BREATHING, METAL CHIMPS! KILL EVERYONE! ........except for that bad guy from Tron... and leave some hot chicks... and get me one of those coconut chocolate bars

Man, I was talking about the apes from Planet of the Apes that can break-dance. The delectable ones. The very dangerous, mouth-watering wild Ape. MMM... I could sure go for some Ape now.

Originally posted by Hugo-45-Viana
DAMN! Canada are good. How can they take out power across the ocean? All bow down to CANADA!:rockman: :crazyboy:

You should mostly thank Ohio, the 11th province of canada. It all hapend cuz of terrists and the worst of their kind, Apes from Iraq (country) sent to kill Pres. Bush (moron). These Apes weren't your ordinairy Ape, they were Apes that spoke english like brit (people) and Mongolian like an Austrian (???). Instead of these apes killing Bush, they went cuckoo and killed 80 employees at a powerplant. Since nobody was alive, all the powerplants supply of energy had vanished. Aww screw this, I'm out of here.

I wanna know what Robert Fisk has to say about these Apes before I say anything further.

Originally posted by Limberopoulos21
Man, I was talking about the apes from Planet of the Apes that can break-dance. The delectable ones. The very dangerous, mouth-watering wild Ape. MMM... I could sure go for some Ape now.

Dr Zaious is my army's leader

Guard Ape: help! The human's about to escape!

Troy McClure: get your paws off me, you dirty ape.

Guard Ape: *gasp* he can talk!

Guard Ape, Apes #1-3: he can talk ! He can talk! He can talk! He can talk! He can talk! He can talk!

Troy McClure: I can siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!

Female Nurse Ape: ooh, help me Dr. Zaius.

Apes #1-3: Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius! Oh, Dr. Zaius!

Ape #1: Dr. Zaius! Dr Zaius!



Troy McClure: I hate every ape I see,

From chimpan-A to chimpanzee,

No, you'll never make a monkey out of me!

(Statue of Liberty rises)

Oh my God! I was wrong!

It was Earth, all along!

You've finally made a monkey,

Apes: Yes we've finally made a monkey,

Troy McClure: Yes you've

& Apes: finally made a monkey out of me!

:monkey: :o

Ah... good times. :)

that Dr. Ziaus was the greatest Simpsons scene of all time... except of course

"Why don't you change your name to Homer Junior? The kids can call you HoJu!"

yeah...... the electricity went out. so what? the media here talks about it like its a worldwide disaster........ its not like anyone else heard about how sydney was without power for 3-4 days last year, or even the blackouts some sections of greater sydney over the past week :confused:

That's sydney, the only that misses electricity there are kangaroos, down in north america we've got wallstreet fat cats and bananas in pajamas.

Originally posted by Limberopoulos21
That's sydney, the only that misses electricity there are kangaroos, down in north america we've got wallstreet fat cats and bananas in pajamas. but would the ape eat the bananas in pajamas

Originally posted by Limberopoulos21
That's sydney, the only that misses electricity there are kangaroos, down in north america we've got wallstreet fat cats and bananas in pajamas.

DOWN in north america?

i guess im going to have to hop to an atlas and learn my geography :rolleyes:

What about the five o'clock news, what about the Sunday paper? Every day's just like the one before, everytime I turn the page I...

BLACKOUT.