I want to go home!!!

[DaveJ]

I was just about to call it a day when an email arrives from Security telling me of a bomb scare about 300 yds up the road.

The car-park here at work is locked, and there is no admission or exit from the building allowed for at least another couple of hours until the nearest bomb disposal squad arrive.

Its eerily quiet on what are normally very busy main roads outside - now cordoned off - so.....


....does anyone know any camp-fire songs?

[Kat]

I don't know any campfire songs, but I am thinking of you and your safety.

It's times like these that I wish I had phone numbers of all my friends from all over so I could call and try and cheer them up.


Hang in there, it will be over soon Dave.

[mulder]

Hang in there buddy......


Let's see, campfire songs......hmmm..


The other day
Out in the woods
there was a bear
a way out there

He looked at me
I looked at him
He sized up me
I sized up him

And so I ran
Away from there
But right behind
Me was that bear

(um...sorry, can't remember the rest.....) :D

[DaveJ]

The bloody bar isn't open yet, either.....
:rolleyes:

[Deekman]

Harrowing ain't it?
I went through that several times during the week after 9/11.
They kept having bomb threats at the Empire State Building, Macy's
Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. I work only one block from
each of those places. Had a bomb scare in our own building only a few months ago. It gets real eerie when you see entire NYC blocks cordoned
off from traffic and pedestrians.
Hang in there.

[Xcom]

Looks like more online time for you today. ;)
Seriously, hope that it's nothing serious.

[DaveJ]

We've just gotten the all clear....but not a false alarm.

It was 3 grenades in a bag.

Live or dummies, I don't know yet.


Time to wade through the car park now.

[blondie]

I am taking thi svery seriously Dave, so much so that I am going out to drink your portion of ale.
I know you would do the same for me in the circumstances.
Keep that stiff upper lip dear.....for old Blighty

(cue theme from the Dambusters)





:)

[Xcom]

Originally posted by DaveJ
It was 3 grenades in a bag.


Maybe Lara Croft was in the neighborhood. :D

[staticon]

Gin Gan Gooo0000.........

Doh! Too late. :mad:

[KoolKat]

Glad to hear that you eventually got outta there. That must've been horrible. :D

Looks like Lara could've been in the area, Xcom. :D

[John Carter]

Ah, the joy of our times, Dave.

From your posts, I see you acquitted yourself with unflappable composure and insouciance in the face of impending badness, in the finest English tradition. Good show. :)

Although with the proliferation of mondo explosives it is hard to tell just what one is facing, the lethal burst radius of a standard 155mm artillery shell is approximately 50 meters, although 150 meters would be considered "danger close". Grenade burst radii generally range from 3 to 25 meters depending on size and type. Hopefully that knowledge of basic explosive device comparison will not be needed again. :)

[DaveJ]

Cheers, John... that means a lot. :)

Originally posted by DEEKMAN
Harrowing ain't it?


I thought of you and DKSM at the time, Deek....instantly remembered your posts on and after 9/11. Not the same situation for me, I know...but being restricted to the building rang a bell.

[GoranAgar]

Since we used a lot of those special terms, does anyone think we will be monitored now by one of those fancy agencies? Mulder? Anyone? :D

[Deekman]

Originally posted by DaveJ
Not the same situation for me

Close enough. Too close. Three grenades in the workplace,
Two jet airplanes into a building. Is the terror any less?

Originally posted by DaveJ
but being restricted to the building rang a bell.

I think DKSM was under a lockdown at his job on 9/11.
At my job, they told us to go where ever you needed to go.
My long walk home that day was freaky because the first leg of the
journey took me towards the mayhem.

[LARAMANIAC]

oo DaveJ {{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}} - glad you're okay! Sorry you had that harrowing experience!!
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[Prelude]

Am I too late for the camp-fire songs ?????

[DaveJ]

Found out today - they were live.

How bizarre....

[Deekman]

And even more weirdly timely;
Today, for a few hours this afternoon, the streets surrounding the Empire State Building were blocked off and there were cops and cop cars all over the place. In fact they may still be there, I haven't gone to check in the past hour.
Nobody here at work was able to find out what was going on.
I managed to find out that it was due to ice falling off of the top of the ESB.
But anytime they block off the streets like that around here, people get real nervous.

[Dad]

So who pulled the pins?

[PtTe2]

Originally posted by DaveJ
How bizarre....

...... how bizarre,
[da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da, da]

ooo ba-by ..... your driving me cra-zy,

[da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da, da]

Oh, wait :confused: that's not a campfire song! Glad your OK, Dave.

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by Dad
So who pulled the pins?


Sadly the bomb disposal squad didn't bring them into the works canteen to check them, in front of all of us who could've had a front row seat.


We got word back the day after. Vigilance is the key word now.

[Deekman]

Good to hear things worked out well.
The streets around the Empire State Building are still closed this morning.
I went to that comic book shop across from there about a half hour
before the ice started falling.

[THE True Lara]

Glad to hear you're okay! :)

Do you have any idea what/whom, or even if there was an intended target or whether or not it was just a 'general' terrorist scare session? I presume the authorities have their speculations?
Who rang in the heads-up? ...sorry, too many questions.
At least everyone's safe and sound. It's all so mindlessly destructive though, reminds me of when the IRA bombed the train station in Lichfield. :( -for months after that everyone in our neighbourhood was staying up late, and baracadeing their backdoors because the IRA were coming up through the fields behind us. So I sympathise with the worry factor.
You take care now.

[DaveJ]

They were found in a bag in a phone box...I wonder if whoever discovered them rang the police from there? Probably not....

Strangely enough no-one has come forward to claim them..... and I doubt we'll get to hear of any more developments here.

[LARAMANIAC]

Yeah times have definitely changed recently! People are more nervous and wary these days, with just cause I may add. Being somewhat an idealist I find it all very sad!
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