[barend]

Woman's Scooter Blown Up in Security Scare
Sun Mar 20,12:26 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Heidi Brown was told she could park her new scooter outside the vehicle registration office while she waited to get license plates.

To her horror, it was blown up by the army after someone reported that it might be a bomb.

Police in Ipswich, eastern England, confirmed on Thursday that a moped had been blown up in a controlled explosion after local business people "raised concerns" that it could be a bomb.

"The moped was chained to the perimeter fence outside the building. We weren't able to identify whose vehicle it was because there were no license plates on it," said a spokeswoman for Suffolk police.

She said the surrounding office buildings were evacuated and three roads were closed off.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported the scooter belonged to Brown, a 22-year-old care worker, who said she had been told she could leave it there awaiting inspection.

news article as short as it appears here...

"local business people "raised concerns" that it could be a bomb." ?

a new scooter out the front of the vehicle registration office... i don't blame them, sounds pretty suss.




MORONS!!!

[srmoore]

And why would there be no plates on it??!! Hrm.. Who in their right mind would bring a plateless scooter to the vehicle registration office??!

And of course there could be no owner identified.. why.. that would require going to the err.. vehichle...um.. registration.. office.. and asking...

idjits.

[SimeSublime]

I'm more curious as to why they would blow it up, especially if they thought it was a bomb. The general rule is to keep flames away from explosives.

[Slade]

Obviously it's to blow it up in a safe location, i.e. in front of the vehicle registration office, where the only casualties will be civilians. You can't have it blow up paying customers at McBurgerWorld-Pub and army encampments! Those people matter!

[Laughlyn]

Ah, Those crazy british bomb squad guys, what would we do without them?

It's all that stupid 'how to deal with emergencys' leflet's fault. page 16: how to reportuor neighbours if you think they're terrorists and stuff. Free phone number too! Curtain twitching city round here.

[srmoore]

I'm more curious as to why they would blow it up, especially if they thought it was a bomb.  The general rule is to keep flames away from explosives.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Actually this is quite common.
What happens is you blow up the trigger in a sense, before it can ignight the actual explosive. Either that or you put the thing in an explosive container and then just blow the bageezes out of it in a contained manner.

[Jane Sherwood]

I'd probably be pissed off about the people's stupidity if I didn't think an exploding moped was so damn funny.

Or exploding anything, really...




I like explosions.

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 22 March 2005 - 12:33 AM

[SimeSublime]

Ah, Those crazy british bomb squad guys, what would we do without them?

It's all that stupid 'how to deal with emergencys' leflet's fault. page 16: how to reportuor neighbours if you think they're terrorists and stuff. Free phone number too! Curtain twitching city round here.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It didn't come with a fridge magnet, did it? No anti-terroist kit is complete without a fridge magnet. Remember: Be alert, Not Alarmed.

[Chyld]

If I didn't feel that the world was going to squat already, I'd be quite annoyed at the rounds of stupidity my countrymen are capable of.

Seriously, a bomb? Who's going to blow up the vehicle registration office? Its hardly the Houses of Parliment, are they?

[srmoore]

I dunno if the registration office over there is the same as here.. but maybe someone was annoyed with waiting in line?

"I've wired my moped to blow in 10 mins, if I'm not done with this registration before hand, you all PAY!"

or some sort of thing like that.. followed by
"Muhahahaha! I've outwitted the RMV!"

This post has been edited by srmoore: 22 March 2005 - 01:59 PM

[Helena]

Seriously, a bomb? Who's going to blow up the vehicle registration office? Its hardly the Houses of Parliment, are they?

Yes, you wouldn't have thought it would be high up on any terrorist's list of obvious targets, would you? Imagine Bin Laden celebrating in his cave: "Praise Allah, for the Western infidels can no longer license their motor vehicles!"

[SirTainly]

Errr.... I think the point is that it had no plates and so was suspect. it is illegal to drive a motor vehicle in the UK without them for the obvious reason the police cannot identify the vehicle. The owner should have got the plates before collecting the moped.

This post has been edited by SirTainly: 20 April 2005 - 08:12 AM

[Kirby]

I'm pretty sure thats what he was going to the vehicle registration office for. Besides is the penalty for not having plates is to have your vehicle blown the f*ck up?

[SirTainly]

I'm pretty sure thats what he was going to the vehicle registration office for. Besides is the penalty for not having plates is to have your vehicle blown the f*ck up?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You should go to the office to get the plates before you collect the vehicle, NOT drive said vehicle to the office to get the plates. In this day and age anything is suspect..better to be safe than sorry. Also you forget in the UK during the 80 and 90s the IRA were blowing up town centres so putting a bomb outside this seemingly unimportant building is not to stop vehicle's being licensed but to create fear i.e. nowhere is safe, you can be blown up at any time.

[barend]

either way.... if i were her, the next thing i parked out the front would be a bomb... big enough to take out any 'concearned local buisiness people'

This post has been edited by barend: 25 April 2005 - 11:39 PM