MarkM
09-11-2003, 07:20 PM
Well just as others share their drive by incidents here's one for you that only just happened to me. As a few who read some of my more flipant posts will realise I am in England..you know the one where the police shout "stop or I'll shout stop again"...we don't have armed police other than special response units. Anyhow, there I am all settled down watching TV when I hear a crash and then a huge bang. I rushed out side expecting to hear moans of someone who has fallen through the roof of a garage next to my house but not so lucky there is a Transit (panel van) on fire outside my house, half the windows on the other side of the road as that was the bang as they had been blown out. The Transit is used by a group of immigrants to my country to go to some kind of work every day and due to parking restrictions in the street they live they park the Transit outside my house overnight. Now no political conclusions should be made however this kind of thing doesn't happen amongst the people that live in my area...we are not that kind of town, sure there are criminals in all towns but not of an obvious nature where I live. So this firebomb attack can only be a grudge or something to do with work. Damned scary as I had to move my car as I was worried that the petrol tank of the transit may have exploded..turns out it was a diesel but I didn't know that at the time. Bloody emergency service centre was like no help all they wanted to do was repeat my number to another switchboard operator as I wanted to move my car before any further damage happened...I ended up giving the info they needed and then hung up, police called me about 15 minutes later to confirm what I had said was correct..still took the fire truck 25 minutes to get to the fire, the fire station is 10 minutes in traffic away during the day but at this time of night way less. The police have found that they don't have a registered owner for the Transit so someone is in for a shock this morning at 6.30 when they come around the corner to go to work. Ok report over just had to put it down in words while it was still fresh in my mind, I did think about pics but as I was more taken by all the flames I only have the aftermath.