Bomb scare sees worried parents rush to schools
Saturday 21st May 2011, 2:30PM BST.
Police officers and civil protection volunteers outside the primary school. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1138411)
WORRIED parents rushed to La Mare de Carteret Schools yesterday after hundreds of pupils were evacuated following a bomb scare.
The schools received a phone call at around 9.30am from an anonymous man warning that there was a suspect device on the premises.
The alarm was sounded and pupils from both the high and primary schools were taken to the playing fields for safety, while the roads were cordoned off.
After spending several hours there, the children were finally told to go home at midday.
No suspect devices were found.
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Good justification of our armoured police vehicles me thinks…co-incidence ? i think not !
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David, how is this good justification? There was no bomb, and even so the only thing that could withstand a bomb would be a tank, not a bullet proof BMW.
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Patterning…there was a similar incident last year. No doubt Dep Steere rushed in and made her usual over stated comments, or did she?
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What a disgrace this incident was. Civil defence – what is their remit in such instances. Where was education? Why were hundreds of children left on an exposed field for hours with no food or water?
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Perhaps an ideal first lesson after this incident would have been entitled ‘ A child’s life in Africa’
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Anyone would think they’d been abandoned in the middle of Atacama Desert, days’ from civilisation in one of the world’s harshest environments. Get a grip woman.
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David:
How was this justification? I think you just like the idea of a conspiracy theory.
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I agree with Susi – Why were hundreds of children left on a boiling hot field for hours. There were children as young as 4 years old there with nothing to eat or drink since they had had breakfast. Where was Education? They should have provided food and water. Instead Police officers tried to help with a few bottles of their own but even this was after at least 2 and a half hours.
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anya
I was working outside in that heat for 8 hours and i`m no spring chicken. It didn`t do me any harm? but they should have had something to drink.
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i totally agree with anya and susi and think that martino is a trouble maker with nothing better to do than slag off children he is making himself sound like a very bitter old man !!! also stop comparing this to africa its ridiculous !!!
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How many of the moaning women had to leave their careers behind to pick up their children? I wonder where your priorities really lie.
Someone said it was ‘boiling hot’, get a grip woman. It wasnt that long ago that we had to go to school for the day and manage to survive without being given drinks every 5 minutes. Drink manafacturers are making fortunes because of the fallacy that is dehydration. I could understand if we lived in the Sahara desert.
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No faye, not bitter, but a tad curmudgeonly perhaps. Developing a curmudgeonly side is one of the pleasures of getting a bit older. Do look it up in the dictionary although you won’t properly understand it until you get a bit older yourself.
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I does rememember my days at the Mare we would off killed for a day like that I bet this kids will rememember this as there bestest day at skool ever.
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Jenny T
Are you the same Jenny T who went on to become a People’s Deputy for St Peter Port South?
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Ray
Awsome :)
kept me laughing for good ole while.
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Mr G,
Check your facts, The police have ARMED response BMWs not ARMOURED.
There is a vast difference, one is a vehicle carrying weapons that bullets will pass through and the other is a vehicle, armed or not, that bullets will not pass through.
The BMWs are ARMED and the Landrover, that hasn`t arrived yet, will be ARMOURED.
I HOPE YOU ARE NOW ENLIGHTENED.
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Generally countries that do not invade others to confiscate their assets wont get bombed. I am not sure we are sending an Armada to the near east.
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Ray,
I sincerely hope it is not The Jenny T with grammar like that there is not much hope for any of us.
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I’m really not sure what more could have been done. Guernsey is hardly a terrorist hotspot and we therefore cannot expect the authorities to have a well-oiled procedure in place to deal with this kind of event.
If a comprehensive anti-terrorist strategy (including regular trial runs) was put in place for every school you can imagine the “waste of money” complaints that would arise – probably from the same people complaining here.
All things considered, it seems to me that everyone concerned did the best they could given the circumstances. Some people really need to calm down a bit – or if they think they can do better, feel free to come up with an anti-terrorist strategy for every school and enlighten the rest of us.
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nocon, either way it’s a waste of tax payer’s money, they could all easily fit into a Volvo estate.
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Why weren’t the children given adequate food, water, shelter, medical supplies and defences from any potential terrorist threat?
As soon as the children were evacuated there should have been a team of Doctors and aid workers dispatched to deal with this situation. The nearby shops should have offered sustenance to the children.
People may complain about the cost, but can you put a price on your child’s life?
I am already looking into launching a legal action against the school for not providing adequate care to my child.
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“…there should have been a team of Doctors and aid workers dispatched to deal with this situation.”
You aren’t serious are you Damon?
… no, I thought not. Good joke mate. At first I thought you were one of those namby pamby parents who talk as if their kids had been jettisoned all of a sudden into a harsh desert environment like the Atacama without so much as sweetie to suck on. You really had me going there for a minute. You really did.
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Leave the kids to fend for themselves, survival of the fittest and all that.
I’ve got better things to give my water to. Plants for example.
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