Er, officer, I've 設立する a MISSILE in my 先頭: Father of Britain's Got Talent girl brings town to a 停止(させる) after finding 冷淡な War 遺物
It's not every day you find an old ミサイル in the 支援する of your 先頭.
But Gavi
n Talbot knew just what to do when he 設立する one in his ? take it to the police 駅/配置する.
If he 推定する/予想するd the police to know what to do, he was 権利.
One of Britain's busiest motorways was brought to a 停止(させる) when Gavin Talbot took a surface-to-空気/公表する ミサイル he'd 設立する to a police 駅/配置する in the West Midlands
A children’s nursery, shops and 得点する/非難する/20s of home were 避難させるd, one of Britain’s busiest motorways was brought to a 停止(させる) and a 非常線,警戒線 was thrown around the police 駅/配置する.
For three hours Mr Talbot, the father of Britain’s Got Talent starlet Connie Talbot, must have wondered what he’d done.
Finally Army 爆弾 処分 専門家s みなすd the 武器 害のない. It was identified as a former 王室の 海軍 surface-to-空気/公表する ミサイル from the 冷淡な War 時代 ? designed to blow enemy 航空機 out the sky, not bring town centres to a 停止(させる).
Mr Talbot, the father of Britain's Got Talent starlet Connie Talbot, 設立する the 武器 had been put in the 支援する of his 先頭 during a house 通関手続き/一掃
Mr Talbot, 43, who runs a 所有物/資産/財産 維持/整備 商売/仕事, 設立する the 武器 had been put in the 支援する of his 先頭 by a member of his team during a 決まりきった仕事 house 通関手続き/一掃 in Leicester on Thursday.
But he didn’t know it was there until after he had driven 55 miles to a 会議 tip at Darlaston in the West Midlands, and started to 荷を降ろす the rubbish. ‘I thought, what the hell is that? I think one of the guys at the tip was ex-Army and he said “that looks like a 爆弾 to me, let’s get it to the po
lice”.’
The married father of three drove carefully to nearby Wednesbury police 駅/配置する, where he told an officer about the 装置.
爆弾 処分 team outside Wednesbury police 駅/配置する, where Talbot brought the ミサイル. A children's nursery, shops and 得点する/非難する/20s of home were 避難させるd after a 非常線,警戒線 was thrown around the police building
Within minutes there was a 十分な-規模 緊急. A 1,000ft 非常線,警戒線 調印(する)d off the police 駅/配置する and a 爆弾 処分 team called in. Twenty officers helped 避難させる a nearby 封鎖する of flats, a children’s nursery and Morrisons supermarket. More than 100 居住(者)s were taken on a 二塁打-decker bus to a bingo hall for refreshments.
Junction 9 of the M6 ? Europe’s busiest motorway junction ? was の近くにd, 原因(となる)ing 大規模な tailbacks.
‘I couldn’t believe it when the policeman (機の)カム out and said “that’s a 爆弾”,’ said Mr Talbot, of Streetly, Birmingham.
‘Then all of a sudden the alarms were going and they were 避難させるing everything.
‘The Army 処分 guy said we had done the 権利 thing and thankfully, it w
asn’t 爆発性の.’
Hayley Sowden, 39, the 経営者/支配人 of a nearby nursery, 追加するd: ‘The children were not fazed at all. It was just a big adventure to them.’
Connie Talbot, ten, reached the final of Britain’s Got Talent in 2007. She was a 走者 up to 動きやすい phone salesman Paul Potts.
The ミサイル was likely to have been a Seacat, introduced in the 1960s and used for more than 20 years to defend 王室の 海軍 ships against 空気/公表する attack.
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