Goes Like a Bomb!
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Another story from the Sun....
Mechanic Paul Kerry got the shock of his life when he went to service a car — and found a BOMB hidden underneath it.
Stunned Paul, 33, spotted the home-made device as soon as he put the Ford Fiesta up on his ramp.
It was packed with ball bearings, airgun pellets and explosive powder — and had been planted right next to the fuel tank.
A match was even taped next to a detonating wire ready to trigger it off.
The entire neighbourhood round Paul’s workshop had to be evacuated as experts tackled the bomb.
Families were moved out of their homes along with 60 workers from factory units and tots at a nursery 300 yards away.
Last night the owner of the N-reg Fiesta, a family man in his 40s, was in shock as cops tried to work out the mystery bomber’s motive.
Paul, whose garage is in Balby, Doncaster, South Yorks, said: “The owner’s just an ordinary bloke - he’s bewildered.
“He has no idea why anyone should have a grudge against him.
“It seems the device had been there for some time — it was covered with dirt.
“It’s shocking to think he’d been running about with a bomb under his car without knowing it.
“I’d rather not think about what would have happened if it had gone off while I was working under there.”
Police have impounded the Fiesta to carry out forensic tests.
A spokesman said: “The device was very crude but was capable of exploding.
“It’s a very odd incident and we’re trying to find out what caused someone to do this. We will be looking at the history of the vehicle and speaking to the owner.”
© 2002 News Group Newspapers Ltd.
Mechanic Paul Kerry got the shock of his life when he went to service a car — and found a BOMB hidden underneath it.
Stunned Paul, 33, spotted the home-made device as soon as he put the Ford Fiesta up on his ramp.
It was packed with ball bearings, airgun pellets and explosive powder — and had been planted right next to the fuel tank.
A match was even taped next to a detonating wire ready to trigger it off.
The entire neighbourhood round Paul’s workshop had to be evacuated as experts tackled the bomb.
Families were moved out of their homes along with 60 workers from factory units and tots at a nursery 300 yards away.
Last night the owner of the N-reg Fiesta, a family man in his 40s, was in shock as cops tried to work out the mystery bomber’s motive.
Paul, whose garage is in Balby, Doncaster, South Yorks, said: “The owner’s just an ordinary bloke - he’s bewildered.
“He has no idea why anyone should have a grudge against him.
“It seems the device had been there for some time — it was covered with dirt.
“It’s shocking to think he’d been running about with a bomb under his car without knowing it.
“I’d rather not think about what would have happened if it had gone off while I was working under there.”
Police have impounded the Fiesta to carry out forensic tests.
A spokesman said: “The device was very crude but was capable of exploding.
“It’s a very odd incident and we’re trying to find out what caused someone to do this. We will be looking at the history of the vehicle and speaking to the owner.”
© 2002 News Group Newspapers Ltd.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I was giving my mum's golf a good clean out after a tip run. I lifted up the base of the back seats, to hoover the carpet underneath (which my mum had never done in 5 years of ownership - she bought the car 2nd hand), and noticed some odd lumps in it, so I lifted the carpet (it's just a flap under the rear seat in the mk2 golf), and found a .357 magnum shell casing, 2 7.62mm shell casings (all expended), and assorted bits of interior trim (door pull handle plastic, ashtray etc) with some rather dubious brown stains on them!! Couldn't figure it out at the time, so put all the bits in a placcy bag and bunged them in a cuboard in the garage. Few days later, I saw Pulp Fiction and thought F*CK!!! Was something dodgy about that car - local VW dealer reckoned it was a South African import, as it was missing bits of interior trim it should have had!
a mate's wife was poking around in the garden and dug up an old duelling pistol. With the best will in the world, the woman is from the planet Zog. She let her 8yr old son play with it for a while before taking it into the office to show to her colleagues, one of whom, whose brain was in gear pointed out that it was in fact a sawn-off shotgun.
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