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Two years since Plymouth terror plot

22/05/10 - 0 comments

Today marks the two year anniversary of Plymouth sending Muslim mentalist Nicky Reilly to blow up our newly refurbished city centre.

Fortunately the only casualty of the day was the would-be suicide bomber himself, who only managed to make a mess of the toilet stall he was prepping his device in, his own face, and very probably his trousers.

When the explosives were later examined by CSI, they said that the outcome could have been considerably different, describing the device as 'viable', meaning it could have blown a honking great hole in the centre of Exeter, had it not been given to an imbecile to set off. As it was, witnesses described the explosion as sounding "like a lightbulb exploding".

So we're all still here. We survived what may go down in history as the most interesting and confusing day Exeter has ever had. Better still, we have a much nicer city centre than Plymouth, even if no-one local can afford to shop there. Who cares. At least it doesn't smell of wee.

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