Apparently One Can Now Be Arrested For Possessing A Faulty Drill Battery.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/southgate-tube-station-explosion-man-arrested-terror-fault-drill-injured-a8407576.html

[jim360]

Misleading headline much?

[dannyk13]

He was not arrested for possessing a faulty battery.
//arrested on suspicion of doing an act likely to cause an explosion to injure or damage property, and endangering safety on the railway.//

[Mamyalynne]

Heck of a shock for the passengers, hope the injured soon recover.

[Neveracrossword]

One can't.

[Spicerack]

They told us it was nothing to do with terrorism.
So AOG's headline would appear to be correct to me.

[Spicerack]

dannyk13 He was not arrested for possessing a faulty battery.
//arrested on suspicion of doing an act likely to cause an explosion to injure or damage property, and endangering safety on the railway.//

^or terrorism, for short......

[dannyk13]

Spicerack, see my post at 14.39.

[dannyk13]

How you come up with terrorism one can only imagine.

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13

He was not arrested for possessing a faulty battery.
//arrested on suspicion of doing an act likely to cause an explosion to injure or damage property, and endangering safety on the railway.//

Well it is reported that it was the faulty drill battery that set off the explosion, pretty severe from a single battery I would have thought.

[dannyk13]

AOG, It depends what he might have been doing with the drill at the time.

[anotheoldgit]

Ah! got it he was unlawfully drilling through a gas pipe for some reason and his drill's battery short circuited, caused a spark and created a gas explosion.

Am I close?

[Sipowicz]

Was he charged? ;-)

[Spicerack]

PC Danny, 'Hello, hello, hello, what have we got here then? Aha, a drill blew up in this chappy's bag. Move along, move along, nothing to see here'.

[dannyk13]

AOG, No idea. I prefer to wait for a further official announcement,

[dannyk13]

Spicerack, You are a comedian.Not.

[237SJ]

Probably a lithium ion battery. They can be dangerous if they are damaged as thermal runaway occurs. Interesting that the station staff tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher as that's not the way to extinguish a lithium battery fire.

[sp1814]

AOG

No, you cannot be arrested for possessing a faulty drill battery.

The person was arrested was on suspicion of doing an act likely to cause an explosion to injure or damage property, and endangering safety on the railway.

That could mean that he was arrested because he took the faulty drill battery and dropped it from a great height on to the escalators.

[Peter Pedant]

[ takes a deep breath ]
hi you sweet old man

//Well it is reported that it was the faulty drill battery that set off the explosion, pretty severe from a single battery I would have thought.//

arrest on suspicion - "suspicion is anything that is not fanciful"
this is a low bar - (R v Shah - works for money laundering but is also the law for other areas)
and explains why for example the stabber of the gypsy in the kitchen ( but it was in his liver I hear you say ) was arrested on suspicion of murder
dead body+ man holding knife admitting he had stabbed him
is MORE than enough.

see also Netflix
The lost Honour of Christopher Jeffried
poor blabbermouth chris talks himself into arrest for murder by telling the police something different to what he had told the hacks milling at his garden gate.....

[youngmafbog]

There is clearly something we are not being told here.

Hardly surprising some do not believe the "It is not terror related" line that is always immediately trotted out well before they would know for sure one way or another.

[sp1814]

Peter Pedant

I wish everyone could watch that show on Netflix.

I remember at the time thinking, “He’s a wrong ‘un”. I think that was the last time I trusted newspapers.