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Check Out What London Is Now Recommending City Buses Carry for Some Unspoken Reason

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  March 12, 2026 12:30 PM

If you don't know what a deep stab wound kit is, it's also known as a bleed control or "stop the bleed" kit, and it's a specialized, emergency medical pack designed to rapidly treat life-threatening, catastrophic bleeding, often caused by stabbings, gunshots, or accidents.

That's pretty serious stuff, and now London officials are recommending buses in the city start carrying these kits.

For some reason that they won't name.

It's appropriate that The Babylon Bee's news site picked this up, because it almost reads like parody. But it's not.

Here's more:

Calls for bleed kits to be installed in every major bus station and on bus routes in areas affected by serious violence have been backed by the London Assembly.

Assembly Members unanimously passed a motion requesting that Transport for London (TfL) to work with the London Ambulance Service (LAS) to ensure the kits will be made available across the network.

Bleed control kits help stem severe bleeding from deep wounds before emergency services arrive – a "potentially valuable method of saving lives".

The motion is non-binding, which means the mayor is not obliged to implement the recommendation. TfL has said it does not plan to promote bleed kits citing guidance from the NHS.

Why do they need bleed kits?

We all know why.

That, of course, is sarcasm.

The U.K. already turned a blind eye to the "grooming gangs" so why not turn a blind eye to the stabbers, too? Saving lives might be considered racist and Islamophobic, after all.

This article is probably a hate crime in the U.K.

"Getting stabbed is better than being racist."