London Olympics - some nuggets of info.
I've just been reading an article about the 2012 London Olympics and there were some fun facts that I hadn't realised in there.
The central olympic area in East London is so crime-ridden that DHL, Fedex and UPS (who will all deliver to places like Baghdad) won't go there. The olympic village is being built in a crime hotspot where they average 39,000 crimes a year including 19 murders and 180 shootings. Apart from that, they're building it on top of the largest sewage overflow pumping station in the country - an area that has 100% probability of being flooded with raw sewage around the time the olympics will be in town, because it does every year. And finally, in their infinite wisdom to not allow any cars near the olympic sites, Red Ken is making sure that everyone is going to be forced on to public transport. As it happens, that area has the most crime-riddled bus and train routes in the country with 453 stabbings, over 9,000 muggings and one actual death each year. On the buses and trains.
Nice.
The central olympic area in East London is so crime-ridden that DHL, Fedex and UPS (who will all deliver to places like Baghdad) won't go there. The olympic village is being built in a crime hotspot where they average 39,000 crimes a year including 19 murders and 180 shootings. Apart from that, they're building it on top of the largest sewage overflow pumping station in the country - an area that has 100% probability of being flooded with raw sewage around the time the olympics will be in town, because it does every year. And finally, in their infinite wisdom to not allow any cars near the olympic sites, Red Ken is making sure that everyone is going to be forced on to public transport. As it happens, that area has the most crime-riddled bus and train routes in the country with 453 stabbings, over 9,000 muggings and one actual death each year. On the buses and trains.
Nice.
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