So, i went back to work at 5pm like any day i work a split shift (Apprentice chef).
15 minutes after i got to work a waitress came into the kitchen and said there were a heap of coppers, firemen and ambos in the street, and that they
had cordoned off the area for about a kilometer square. i didnt think much of it, maybe a car accident or a fire. half an hour after only 5
customers had come in (opposed to the usual fifty or so we get by that time), i went out to talk to a copper doing a patrol up and down the street,
he said we were supposed to have been evacuated 10 minutes after the police arrived......but the police didnt contact the restaraunt in any way,
nobody came in to tell us what was going on, didnt get a phone call. nada.
one of our customers claimed she knew what was going on and told me that a suspicious looking guy with a big backpack had tried to get on a bus, and
one of the ladies working in the station had called the cops, the fella claimed it was a bomb. so everyone freaked out.
i work at hogsbreath, inside the blue area.
the bomb is in mccafferties/greyhound bus station across the street towards the north in the red
and the bank that got robbed not 10 minutes before is another street over, connected by bell street mall. in the green
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my boss said to all the staff "i mean i know you guys wanted the night off, but you didnt have to go to all this trouble" :P
anyway, im now sitting at home safe and sound, with a carton of beer with the telly on. ill try and get updates if i can !
[ Edited on 7-3-2007 by Sioux ]
for shiz? in toowoomba? a bomb scare? :P lol well @ least u got ur night off without spending it in hospital or seomthing...
whow thats crazy
maybe the suspicious guy with the backpack wasnt packing bombs, but a bag of loot.
Woohoo,
hope you enjoyed it.... last time we got evactuated we had to go back to work afterwards 
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Thats the sort of shit i dreamed would happen when i worked as a chef and your working split shifts too, they suck b%$#@ big time. After twelve years i escaped from the kitchen, now i have a cruisey job building jet engines all thanks to the VW.
When I was doing vodafone support our building used to get a false alarm fire evacuation about once a month. It must have cost a fortune calling out fire brigade each time. We didnt get a break though. The phones got diverted to mobiles and we worked from the carpark. Not that we could fix anything much without the computers, we just logged details on paper and answered shitty calls when problems werent being dealt with. Hell hath no fury like a person unable to send MMS for an hour.
When I worked for Sh*ll (all vowels removed to protect the name of the oil company) in London, I found out from the security guys that there were 2 or more bomb threats per week on the building. Standard operating procedure was to *not* evacuate and *not* to inform staff....
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