Bomb Scare

We just had a bomb scare at work. Someone left a large holdall in the showers on the floor on which I work. We were all evacuated into the carpark and then one of the security team asked if anyone had left the holdall in the shower, describing its size and location etc. Nobody owned up, so we were all told to move to the furtherst corner of the carpark, away from the building. As someone pointed out, though, the holdall in question was big enough that - given it was a bomb - it could have taken out the entire Thames Valley Drive Industrial Estate ... so moving to the far side of the carpark was a slightly futile exercise.

For about ten minutes we stood there in the rain waiting for the bomb disposal squad to arrive from somewhere over in Wiltshire (40 minutes away) or possibly from London (also about 40 minutes away) and then, without so much as an explanation, we were told we could go back in again. My guess is somebody owned up to the bag.

The moral of the story is: don't leave unattended luggage in a somewhat twitchy Ministry of Defence building.