Bomb warning (not a joke -- this is for real)

[compilerbitch]

Just got this message:

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Mobbs [mailto:A.Mobbs@damtp.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: 28 November 2003 12:15
To: everyone@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Subject: URGENT SECURITY ALERT


We have received the following message from the University security
office.

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Information has been received that 2 bombs have been planted in
Cambridge,
which are to be detonated at 2pm. One in the City, and the other within
the University. Will anyone who may see a suspicious package, leave the
area and contact either the Police or University Security Control Centre
immediately.
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If you see a suspect package in CMS please contact a member of the
facilities staff or me.

Many thanks Ann




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Ann Mobbs
Departmental Administrator
DAMTP
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge
CB3 0WA

Tel:01223 337863
Fax:01223 765900

Comments

[trurl.livejournal.com]

:-(

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. The despicable IRA tried something similar in Oxford when I was there, with a bomb in one of the main bookshops which failed to detonate and was found much later, covered in dust, during a stock check! 8-O

I do hope those responsible get a visit from an MI5 wetworks team soon.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I was at ChCh at the time. They forgot to evacuate St. Aldates Quad. I remember making lunch in my kitchen, remarking to myself that the street seemed awfully quiet for the time of day. And there was a bomb, too -- only a couple of hundred yards further up the road.

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

eek! Take care.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Well, no obvious bangs yet. I've not heard any further rumours.

It could be animal rights people protesting the new primate research facility, so don't necessarily assume it's Bin Laden's bunch.

[emomisy.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeek...
That's worrying... I really don't understand animal rights campaigners who are happy to kill humans... (assuming its them, could be any number of other groups).
I assume it didn't happen and was probably a hoax, but even so, it has to be treated as a real threat.

That is the sort of email which should be digitally signed though, its trivial to forge emails to convince most people. Those chips in the University Card are meant for that sort of thing, but its not going to happen anytime soon.

I didn't realise you were at DAMPT though, I'd have thought you'd be at the CL as you're working under Simon Moore (and would then be in Rainbow Group... say hi to Neil Dodgson for me sometime if you know him)

[sjmurdoch.livejournal.com]

No bombs went off, but the email did really originate from the University Security Office so it not a hoax. As I understand it, someone who said he/she was from an animal-rights group phoned the Samaritans and said that two bombs had been placed. This eventually filtered to the University, probably via the police.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

My sympathies--that's damn scary.