Pendraken Terrorists?

[Westmarcher]

One day, ... (when I worked for the Post Office) .. I was sure someone on the other side of the counter had pushed an explosive device, in a small package, to me.
That's the only time in my life when I've felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up ! (Raspy, raspy, raspy, against my collar.)

That would be the mail menopause.

[getagrip]

That would be the mail menopause.

   

Well, Phil is of a "certain" age 

[Orcs]

Leon

Please could you do me a big favour?

When you are next sending a "Private and Confidential " order to Nobby at his University, PLEASE, PLEASE, let me know and the name of the university.  I can them  wait 24 hours and phone said University with details of a "suspicious package".

We can then all watch on the BBC while the Bomd Disposal team nutralise his pack of figures with serveral rounds from the rifle on the "Wheelbarrow" or if we are REALLY LUCKY detonate it in a controlled explosion 

[getagrip]

And, just to make it even sweeter, can it be the day you ship his first Centurion bridge layer     

[Techno]

That would be the mail menopause.

Dearie, dearie me ! 

Well, Phil is of a "certain" age 

I'm well past that !....In my dotage, would be far more accurate. 
Cheers - Phil

[Maenoferren]

What was mildly disturbing, Gareth, was that no-one had done a head count, to see whether everyone had actually left the exchange !


Cheers - Phil

When I worked on the Ffestiniog railway we used to mooch about the slate mines, once a whole pile of us went underground. We duly counted heads on the way out.... However no-one counted them going in...30 years later I still have a niggling doubt that we left someone in there.

[getagrip]

When I worked on the Ffestiniog railway we used to mooch about the slate mines, once a whole pile of us went underground. We duly counted heads on the way out.... However no-one counted them going in...30 years later I still have a niggling doubt that we left someone in there.

Tunnel doesn't come out in Runcorn does it???

[Maenoferren]

What was mildly disturbing, Gareth, was that no-one had done a head count, to see whether everyone had actually left the exchange !


Cheers - Phil

When I worked on the Ffestiniog railway we used to mooch about the slate mines, once a whole pile of us went underground. We duly counted heads on the way out.... However no-one counted them going in...30 years later I still have a niggling doubt that we left someone in there.

[Techno]

Hmmm.....Why has that one echoed ? 
Oh...Slate mine....I geddit !
Cheers - Phil

[Subedai]

As being both a Security Manager and a Health and Safety Officer in my working career it never ceases to amaze me how -when a building is evacuated because of the fire alarm- people will always congregate just outside the huge plate glass windows so that can watch events unfold. They used to get really indignant when I told them to get away from the glass.

[Vamboozle]

I used to work for a large insurance company in the early 90's who received a large unexpected parcel to the post room.

Following procedure they x-rayed it in one of those airport style scanners - it appeared to have a bunch of electronics on one side of the box and an unclear solid mass on the other side.

Needless to say they evacuated the building and called the bomb squad who promptly destroyed the box (with a chunk of the post room ceiling) in a controlled explosion.

Turned out it was a box of promotional leaflets with free gift digital watches ordered by the marketing department. 

[getagrip]

I used to work for a large insurance company in the early 90's who received a large unexpected parcel to the post room.

Following procedure they x-rayed it in one of those airport style scanners - it appeared to have a bunch of electronics on one side of the box and an unclear solid mass on the other side.

Needless to say they evacuated the building and called the bomb squad who promptly destroyed the box (with a chunk of the post room ceiling) in a controlled explosion.

Turned out it was a box of promotional leaflets with free gift digital watches ordered by the marketing department. 

Oops 

[Hertsblue]

 

[Ithoriel]

Not first hand knowledge, so story may not be entirely as it happened, but it was said that one of our security guards was suspicious of a package but not entirely certain it was indeed a bomb.

So, being an enterprising soul, he called a cab, took the "bomb" in the cab to the local police station and popped it on the desk, announcing to the startled desk sergeant that he thought it was a bomb!

The sergeant cleared the area, called the bomb squad and whiled away the time 'til the squad arrived berating the security guard for his stupidity.

The "device" turned out to be .... a low-powered incendiary bomb! 

I wonder if there's a local cabbie still going,"You'll never guess what I had in the back of my cab."

[howayman]

Once upon a time, many, many years ago on a Northumberland beach i found a shell/rocket/flare device, which as one does, promptly took to my Grandparents house. On arrival i was asked nicely to leave it at the bottom of the garden, whilst a discussion was held about just how dangerous this thing was. When i went back to look and poke at it (without parental/grandparental knowledge) it had disappeared, perhaps, even been stolen. Never did find out what it was or were it went. Hope it wasn't tooo dangerous.
The beach had been used during WW2 as a range and the dunes were strewn will .303 and other calibre slugs.
Ah the joys of youth.