Video: Car bomb plot to kill Northern Ireland policeman foiled Speaking as someone who for years looked under their cars and still does, we're standing here on a very miserable afternoon - it could have been a lot more miserable. A device like that doesn't know who's in the vehicle. It could have been the intended target, if that's the right phrase, despicable as it is, or it could be his wife, children or grandchildren," said local Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician Michael Copeland.