The hometown of the great Pat Metheny!
Posted on 08/01/2007 12:51:19 PM PDT by barker
About 8:45 this morning someone came through the molding dept where I work telling everyone we had to get out. We gathered in the parking lot and a few minutes later were told we had to go across the street to the movie theatre parking lot. Since we were told we could walk or drive over I drove which turned out to be a good thing.
About 10:30 we were told we could go home but people without their cars could not go get them. I took a couple of people home, way out of my way but they needed a ride and I'm such a nice person ;-)
A suspicious container was found in the break room and later one was found, I heard, in the office area. The office area is locked up about 5 every evening so who knows how it got there. My brother also works there and said they had a suspicion who might have done this.
I'm mad as hell about this. Sure it's nice to get an unexpected day off but not this way. It's a very malicious and expensive joke. Someday one of these false alarms is going to be real and people are going to get hurt.
Better to be safe than sorry..
I have always wondered what makes a package suspicious.
And I am sorry for all of your inconvenience. I hope they can identify whoever pulled this stunt.
Why didn’t they just have a fire alarm drill?........
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We had a run of many bomb threats and suspicious boxes, etc. that lasted for 3 months. We had about 1 evacuation every 2 weeks on average. That was very frustrating. They finally tracked the threats to a police officer at our facility who had been fired around that time. I’m not sure, but he may have had a set of master keys made prior to being fired to get back into the building. At the very least, he was aware of all the protocols for security and where security cameras were located, etc. He also stole a number of items, which is why he was fired originally.
We used to get bomb threats at the plastics factory where I used to work fairly often. I was the paint room foreman and always “searched” with police. The paint kitchen was full of potential bombs. Benzine, 55 gallon drums of alcohol, and acetone etc.
It’s my lunch.
We originally went to the meeting place in the parking lot designated in case of fire but the police wanted us farther away.
Yikes...where is this plant? I have family in Lee’s Summit, it’s where I grew up.
Just food and dairy containers for people like Country Crock, Daisy Dairy products etc. Nothing for the gov.
And there are a lot of solvents and chemicals in there.
Never mind on the location...I went to the link and found it. My Mom is at John Knox...who I was mainly worried about... but I have other family there as well. Pray it turns out to be nothing.
My bet is that this incident was a hoax because some REALLY important (read deluded) person at your plant needed the day off.
I know the feeling. When I taught high school we had several bomb threats and had to evacuate. Once we had to do the whole evacuate campus thing and have parents come pick their kids up at the stadium. It was a royal pain the rear, it was hot out there, and it was frustrating trying to make sure the kids were picked up in an orderly fashion (there are always parents who think they don’t need to go to the protocol).
Anyway, I can understand your anger.
susie
That one turned out to be nothing.
Of course, a package that truly needed to be suspected probably wouldn't be suspicious.
>>I have always wondered what makes a package suspicious<<
I used to work at BP America.
After one of our execs was blown up, we had a bomb detection machine installed and all packages were to be x-rayed.
Great idea, but no instructions on what to look for, just how to work it.
When my sister asked, “So what should I be looking for?”
The dork supervisor said in a haughty voice, “A bomb”
My sister looked at him and said, “What, like a black circle with a sparkling fuse hanging out? What are we, Spy vs. Spy?”
Soon after, we got guidelines on what a bomb may be and “tests” were included in the packages to be examined. Great idea also, if you inform the person on the other end that one of these is just a test.
One lady received a “test bomb” without being informed about it and nearly had a heart attack!
Oh, dear, the poor thing.
She actually was very nice and fought for the young man who let it slip through, not to be fired. Lord Love her!
Yes, and they said we would get paid for it. Most of the days production and at least part of the 2nd shift production was lost. We're talking about lots of pieces. One lid machine alone will produse 60,000 lids for the 48oz containers per shift.
This turned out to be nothing. The police came and looked at it and decided because we do have many chemicals there to call the bomb squad. Anyone could get to most of the chemicals. Teams from the National Guard were called in as well. They ended up making it a training exercise.
The hometown of the great Pat Metheny!
It was nothing. We were joking about it but it was scarey at the same time.
My day at work
Sounds like a lot of fun
NOT
Many years ago, 1977 or so, when I was running a donut shop my night crew called about midnight and said they had a bomb threat called in to the store. SO I rush over to my store, I was only a few blocks away, and help the local police search the building. Which took all of 5 minutes. Of course nothing was found, but we did roll the dumpster to the far end of the lot just in case.
Hope you have a better day tomorrow :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Ping.
I have been to a few plastics plant fires and they aren't fun.
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