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james73 · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: Pizza Hut bomb alert

GLASGOW city centre was brought to a standstill today after a suspect
package was found in a busy restaurant.

Traffic ground to a halt and shops and offices were evacuated as police
cordoned off an large area around Pizza Hut, on the corner of Sauchiehall
Street and Renfield Street.

Diners were evacuated and the premises sealed off as the Royal Navy's
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team rushed to the site.

Fire trucks waited nearby and hundreds of people gathered to watch as
police taped off the pedestrian area from West Nile Street to Hope Street.

Streets were gridlocked, with cars and buses diverted from Renfield Street.

Buses stuck in the one way system on Renfrew Street were abandoned at
the side of the road.

Police said the alarm was raised by the restaurant manager around 11.45am.

A spokeswoman said: "As a precaution the premises was evacuated and
the area cordoned off."

As the streets were sealed off traffic almost ground to a halt.

Police redirected vehicles down Bath and West Nile streets but some buses
were abandoned at the side of the road, including the 55 to Braehead and
the 41 to Easterhouse, It was expected to take hours for the gridlock to
ease, with police directing traffic at major junctions.

Shop staff out on their lunch breaks were left stranded behind the cordon
and unable to return to work.

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AMcD · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

Was just having a read of that on the E.T. site.

Whit is it with all these people claiming to be trapped behind a cordon and cannae get back to their work? Aye gid.

Hugo Drax · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject:

Could they not have just walked around the block?
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Stuball · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject:

Whoever called it in as a suspicious package should be charged with wasting police time.... who the fcuk would want to bomb a pizza hut?
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james73 · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject:

Hugo Drax · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

Pizza Hut is the pits. I was in one in Wales recently with a colleague. We ordered our food and, as we were drinking our beers, we noticed how dirty the place looked. If that was the state of the dining area I dread to think of the state of the kitchens.

We got our coats and I told the waiter I had an urgent call and had to leave (yes I know I am a chicken).

Uuurgghhn

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HollowHorn · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

They prolly thought it was a dirty bomb.

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poodiecat · Tofu hot dog & mustard Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 373

Actually, a friend of a former friend worked there and their management training is supposed to be top class, they pay well and - at least five years ago - managers from Pizza Hut never had problems to find a job anywhere else.
I never entered one myself apart from the once when I had a bladder emergency in Edinburgh.

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