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 Sioux
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| posted on March 7th, 2007 at 07:37 PM |
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Bomb Scare in toowoomba bus station
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 ]
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liltimmy1300
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| posted on March 7th, 2007 at 09:07 PM |
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for shiz? in toowoomba? a bomb scare? :P lol well @ least u got ur night off without spending it in hospital or seomthing...
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butidontunderstand
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| posted on March 8th, 2007 at 11:23 AM |
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whow thats crazy
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amazeer
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| posted on March 8th, 2007 at 11:34 AM |
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maybe the suspicious guy with the backpack wasnt packing bombs, but a bag of loot.
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penguin
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| posted on March 8th, 2007 at 05:42 PM |
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Woohoo,
hope you enjoyed it.... last time we got evactuated we had to go back to work afterwards 
'Ah, whatever................'
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Sioux
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| posted on March 9th, 2007 at 12:28 PM |
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Article in todays newspaper
| Quote: | Gareth William
Richards, the man accussed of holding up two tooroomba banks and causing a bomb alert in the city's CBD on wednesday is to remain behind bars.
Richards, 28, made a brief appearance in toowoomba magistrates court yesterday. Handcuffed, he stood quietly in the dock as his solicitor, nathan
bouchier, told the court his client would not be applying for bail. Richards was not required to enter any pleas to charges of robbery, attempted
robbery, stealing, two counts of causing a bomb hoax and two of fraud. Mr bouchier said his client intended on taking matters to the higher court by
way of ex-officio indictment, indicating pleas of guilty. Police allege richards attempted to hold up the gardentown st george bank just before 4pm on
wednesday, allegedly passing a note to a teller which said he had a bomb in his backpack. When the teller hit a panic button richards fled
empty-handed. he is then alleged to have robbed heritage building society in ruthven street, running off with a "substantial amount of money" which
was recovered. Police arrested richards at the greyhound bus terminal in neil street a short time later. The area remained cordoned off for the
ensuing four hours as a bomb squad investigated the contents of a backpack found at the bus terminal. Magistrate Greg Mcintyre yesterday remanded
richards in custody to appear back in the same court on july 11, during which time the matters should have been dealt with in the district court.
Heritage chief executive officer John Minz said staff at the branch were being counselled and management remained happy with the branch's security
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well there ya go :o
[ Edited on 9-3-2007 by Sioux ]
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66deluxe
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| posted on March 9th, 2007 at 05:31 PM |
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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.
This is my Volkswagen, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me my Volkswagen is useless, without my Volkswagen, I am useless.
61 Karmann Ghia 2110cc type1 w Los Panchito's
66 Deluxe Beetle 2270 type 4
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amazeer
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| posted on March 10th, 2007 at 09:13 PM |
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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.
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| posted on March 11th, 2007 at 04:18 PM |
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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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Sioux
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| posted on March 11th, 2007 at 06:43 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by 66deluxe After twelve years i escaped from the kitchen, now i have a cruisey job building jet engines all thanks to the VW.
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so what would one have to do to get into a cruisy job building jet engines, coming out of a hospitality background.....
im really looking for an escape route, preferably mechanical. but after doing kitchen work i want to find something that pays the $$$
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