Details arestill emergingabout an attack carried out near the UK ’s Houses of Parliament on Wednesday . As officials seek to learn the identicalness of a defendant who was shot by police , a 4chan yarn from less than 24 hours earlier come out to announce the location of the flack that has claimedfive livesso far .
short after the onrush , 4chan users beganspeculating about a postfrom yesterday that seemed to discover the aggressor ’s plan , worrying that its existence would lead to the web site being shut down .
The announcement , posted at around 3 pm London time on Tuesday , appeared on the site ’s politically incorrect ( /pol/ ) imageboard from a user with the ID n1SoXPxb — theonly postby that ID across any 4chan board . The exploiter is flag as Danish , though they could have easily used a VPN to obfuscate their placement .
The user posted a drawstring of Morse code dots and dashes which transform to “ gotohttp://pastebin.com/zluxdmza . ” That Pastebin varlet hold a simple binary codification which , when deciphered , points to a GPS location near Big Ben , tight to where the attackerreportedly doss down his vehicleon Wednesday .
Because the Pastebin varlet was created by a Edgar Guest account , it could not have been changed after the fact . Additionally , /pol/ user responding at the time of the yarn ’s creation noted then that the code relate to England ’s famous clocktower . That Pastebin file has been viewed nigh 4,000 times at the time of this writing .
The user attached a photo of two gas pedal taken from anunrelated 2010 meeting place postwith the idiomatic expression “ /pol/ 21 - 3 - 2017 ” inexpertly blue-pencil into the image . It ’s currently unidentified if the suspect had a small-arm , but the post ’s minacious aim is clear .
The attempt itself is currently being treated as an bit of terrorist act , agree toThe Guardian . Witnesseshave describedthe assailant as an Asian gentleman in his XL .
Though currently file away , the original poststill appearson /pol/. “ I understand the berth , ” current 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura told Gizmodo , “ We are ready to respond for jurisprudence enforcement federal agency . ”
Update 3/22/17 7:01pm EDT : Currently there are five report death from the attack and 40 injuries , the New York Timesreports .
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