Re: Work bomb scare
Two Instances:
1: Sand (Dredged up from a sandbank) was being shipped in on the back of lorries as part of building works at the Pharmaceutical plant not too far from the Dartford Tunnel & as the sand was being tipped, somebody who was actively paying attention spotted the tail fins of a UXB amongst it.
2: Travelling back home by train, a few weeks after 711 I boarded my train out of Paddington as per usual (Ahead of the crowds still on the concourse), a few seats away another early boarder was putting his bag & coat on the train, I paid him little real attention as he walked off to the lavatory as I presumed.
The train pulled out & a standing passenger asked, whose expensive coat & briefcase was taking up a empty seat & had anybody seen the owner. Having been on board the train for some 15 minutes by now, seeing no return of the owner & envisaging a major incident on the lines in\out of London.
Not surprisingly people got a little concerned at this & flagged it to the train manager, train halted at the next station & surrounded by cops, while the train manager advised passengers of the terror alert & would the owner of case & coat if he was still on the train make himself known.
Upper class person returns, "Yes its my hat & coat..... What's all the fuss about....I only left it while I joined my chums from 1st Class in the buffet.....Really what's all the bother about."
The looks he got (If he noticed them) ensured he retreated back to the buffet, which was probably his intent anyway & left his stuff behind again. As the train reached each station I half expected someone to walk off with it or throw it out the window. I know I was extremely tempted to do so as the train passed through the Somerset Levels.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
