Pizza Hut bomb alert

james73 · 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

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

Could they not have just walked around the block?

Stuball

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?

james73

Hugo Drax

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

scallopboy

monument

HollowHorn

They prolly thought it was a dirty bomb.

poodiecat

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.

poodiecat

falseface

monument

james73

City security alert scaled down

GLASGOW city centre returned to normal today after a bomb alert at a busy
restaurant.

Streets were cordoned off and premises evacuated after a suspect device
was discovered in Pizza Hut in Sauchiehall Street.

However, restrictions were lifted once the area had been given the all clear
yesterday evening and city centre diversions were lifted by rush hour.

Emergency services were quickly on the scene at the corner of Sauchiehall
Street and Renfield Street shortly before noon. The city was brought to a
standstill for hours while investigations were carried out.

Bomb disposal experts were drafted in and it is believed a six-inch piece of
pipe with an electrical device attached was removed.

A spokesman for Pizza Hut said: "We temporarily closed our Renfield
Street branch after alerting police to a suspicious package found in the
toilets."

As reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Times, hundreds of
shoppers looked on in horror from behind cordons after being evacuated
from one of the city's busiest shopping streets.

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

James H

james73

wee minx

..oops

falseface