---
title: Innocent in London
date: "2005-09-22T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - london-2005
wp_id: 548
description: I was detained and arrested at Southwark tube station during a 2005 security alert in London. While the bomb squad cleared my rucksack and laptop, Reuters reported on the station evacuation I inadvertently triggered.
keywords: [london, southwark tube station, security alert, bomb squad, metropolitan police, jubilee line]
---

[Innocent in London](http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html).

> LONDON (Reuters): - A London underground train station was evacuated and part of a main east-west line closed in a security alert on Thursday, three weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 people on the transport network, police said. A Transport Police spokeswoman said Southwark station was closed and Jubilee Line services suspended between Waterloo and Canary Wharf in the east London business district.
>
> This Reuters story was written while the police were detaining me in Southwark tube station and the bomb squad was checking my rucksack. When they were through, the two explosive specialists walked out of the tube station smiling and commenting nice laptop. The officers offered apologies on behalf of the Metropolitan Police. Then they arrested me.
>
> ALL MEN ARE SUSPECT. BUT SOME MEN ARE MORE SUSPECT THAN OTHERS. (with apologies to George Orwell)