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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Police have urged companies to be careful when handling mail after a serious of letter bombs have gone off in office which deal with motorist fines etc and the DVLA offices.

Police say devices are aimed to shock, not to kill, but can cause harm to people. The ones which went off are padded A5 style envelopes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6338829.stm

John Reid has urged the public and press not to speculate, and let the police get on with the investigation.

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

Funny, but I read that on the BBC website and heard about it on the radio. But I didn't feel the urge to announce it here or anywhere else on account of the fact that the BBC does news perfectly well so I don't need to bother!

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SantaFefan · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

and now for the weather....

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Quite right Mark!

And I'm concerned that all this week's events are too close to home!

Those turkey carcasses were driven within 1 mile past our house, and this afternoon my daughter had to dash to a car park in Birmingham before they sealed off the street in a bomb scare. It happened before about two years ago and that time I had to go pick her up from Edgbaston because the police would not let anyone into a carpark for 16 hours.

I know, the police are only doing their job.

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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:43 am Post subject:

There was a bomb scare in Newcastle yesterday morning which completely shut down the Metro system, delayed trains on the east coast line and diverted plenty of buses. Some Metro passengers ended up having to walk about two miles to work!

All because a Polish immigrant was found asleep in Central Station Metro - when roused, he became angry then started shouting "I've got a gun and a bomb, I need to see a psychologist!" Police didn't take any chances and shut everything down in town for about two hours before he was finally arrested and led away.... cue chaos yesterday morning.... I wondered why my office was extremely quiet for the first two hours, thought everyone had decided to stay home for the day! Smile

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AndyAndy2 · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:07 am Post subject:

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:12 am Post subject:

So who is behind it?

If it's a disgruntled motorist, that would narrow the field of suspects down to say around 40 million people? Laughing

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

It's an old chinese curse:

" May you live in Interesting Times"
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Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

In relation to this enquiry, Police have arrested a man who rang into Jeremy Vine's show yesterday. They think he may have mental health issues.

I'd have thought that was obvious Wink

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain