[kermitology]

My cousin was in London during the bombings, and having just spoken to him he had some interesting things to say about being there.

First, he was at Kings Cross, about 24 hours before the bombers and noticed a few things during the days before the attack. There seemed to be an increased police presence on the streets of London with officers carrying semi-automatic weapons, and strangely that there were no garbage cans around. Anything remotely resembling a garbage can was either removed or sealed. At one point after having something to eat him and a friend, on their way to the Tower of London, couldn't find anywhere to put their garbage. They stopped and asked a police officer where they could find somewhere to throw the stuff out and the officer told them they had to keep it with them. After explaining that the Tower of London probably wouldn't want them to have the garbage on them the officer took it from them.

Seems to me that the British tried to do something to prevent something centred around leaving a bomb in a garbage can or something of that ilk..