#101. Fighting Suicide Bombers on London Bridge - Roy Larner

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Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The world can be a scary place sometimes, and most of us don’t know how we’d react in extreme situations.

So when the horror of the 2017 London Bridge Attack began to unfold, Roy Larner had a choice: run or front up.

Roy’s reaction became legendary, and he became known as ‘the Lion of London Bridge’.

Stabbed 8 times after confronting the knife wielding jihadis, he spent two weeks in hospital.

But somehow, despite massive support and petitions, he was never awarded for his bravery.

This is a wild story, and a fascinating insight to an horrific event.

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0:00.0	Get back!
0:02.0	No!
0:03.0	No!
0:04.0	Get him!
0:05.0	Everyone was running.
0:06.0	I've never seen anything like it.
0:08.0	You were all the police in the area.
0:10.0	How clear do they need to be?
0:12.0	Move out of this area.
0:13.0	Get away!
0:14.0	They were just running around everywhere.
0:18.0	Anyone's coming near them or they see them come out and call they were just stuck with them.
0:24.6	So when he was coming towards it, are you still thinking, are you looking around going?
0:27.6	Is he still at me here? What's going on?
0:29.6	Yeah. I'm still thinking if people panicking, they must have seen a lot more going on that wall than we have.
0:34.6	All of a sudden, I mean, second is clly knife, straight into my chest and to my stomach,
0:42.0	within two quick stabs.
0:43.5	I'm still sitting on a chair.
0:45.3	That's when apparently when I shouted, the fuck you, I'm a wall.
0:49.6	That's where I started fighting with him.
0:51.3	His other ones come on to me, the bloke who was with him.
0:55.0	So they're slashing me, they're stabbing me still.
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