This has got to be an entry for The Darwin Awards! The boss of the firm that left a fake bomb at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium has apologised for making a "devastating mistake". Chris Reid of Security Search Management & Solutions Ltd (SSMS) said he wrongly logged the item as found on Wednesday. The bomb scare led to the postponement of Sunday's match against Bournemouth. The club said the device could not have been detected by sniffer dogs because it did not contain explosives. Old Trafford was evacuated and the match called off after the device was found in one of the toilet blocks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36307246 I find it impossible to believe that after a training exercise with a fake bomb, you forget to take it away with you!
But don't forget it was only 20 years ago that Irish terrorists detonated a 3300 pound bomb in Manchester. Even the word 'bomb' can understandably unnerve the locals.
Absolutely agree with you, not suggesting the locals, club etc did not act sensibly. Its the bloody idiot who left a training bomb still in the stadium I was criticizing.
My opinion (and opinon of many others) is that they wanted to see other results of the round, so they ended up with this "amazing" idea to put fake bomb on stadium...
The Darwin Awards is for people who end up killing themselves doing something stupid. If anything, this is the exact opposite. You find it impossible to believe a human being made a stupid mistake? Have you spent your entire life in isolation?
There you go I always thought they were just for incredible acts of stupidity, my mistake. I make mistakes all the time(see above) but with a fake bomb?
Manchester police are still under a cloud from last week's practice where the "suicide bomber" ran into the Trafford Centre shouting "Allahu Akbar!" somewhat stereotypically and a tad culturally insensitively. They'll be thrilled to be able point the heat at somebody else!
People sometimes make mistakes with real bombs. These are obviously unusual things for you or me but if your day-to-day job is handling fake bombs it would become as normal a thing as whatever we do in our daily lives and familiarity breeds contempt. The fact is that mistakes are being made pretty much constantly in every field, many which would be much more terrifying if we knew about them. It’s just the most of the time, they’re caught by safety procedures, kept quiet or simply never have any apparent consequences.
So much disruption for so pedestrian an event. Anyone who frequents public spaces had better get used to it because similar chaos can be brought about at any time for the cost of a local phone call. It's 'All change!' from now on I'm afraid.
