Suspected bomb in Venture Close, Bexley is false alarm

2:16pm Wednesday 28th March 2012 in Weird By Abigail Woodcock

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A SUSPECTED bomb found by a pensioner is his garden has turned out to be a piece of scrap metal.

Police were called to Venture Close, Bexley at 9.30am this morning after John Marriott, 75, found a long metal object in his garden, suspected to be a world war bomb.

Officers promply evacuated the scene and set up road closures.

However, upon closer inspection, the suspected bomb was revealed to be just a large piece of scrap metal.

Police left the scene around midday.

A police spokeswoman said: "No explosive device has been found and residents are free to return to their homes."

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Comments(10)

Jeepo12 says...
2:52pm Wed 28 Mar 12

Attention seeking old fool.

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cookster says...
3:03pm Wed 28 Mar 12

Hang on, he was in the army for ten years, he knew a bomb when he saw one! Bet his neighbours love him.

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bothered44 says...
3:32pm Wed 28 Mar 12

What an absolute waste of everyone's time... maybe he should go to SpecSavers!

Hoping there was no serious crime taking place whilst the police were dealing with this non-story!

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Dickie Cranium says...
3:45pm Wed 28 Mar 12

Well I think the police should confiscate his metal detector, and charge him with being drunk in charge of said detector. He should the very least be banned from owning one for the foreseeable future.

THanK You

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the wall says...
3:57pm Wed 28 Mar 12

Will John Marriott be allowed to weight in the scrap metal ?

Should of hit it with a hammer first. Then if it starts ticking you know it's a bomb or a large metal clock.


ThAnK yOu.

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Jeepo12 says...
9:07pm Wed 28 Mar 12

Perhaps he could donate the scrap to the BNP, they're like Dan for funds. Desperate.


THAnk yoU

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Outandabout says...
11:25am Thu 29 Mar 12

It's oh so easy to be wise after the fact. Hindsight is such a wondefully exact science. It was a 'long metal object'. He did the right thing. Someone thought it best to close the roads as a precaution, so what he was wrong, no one was harmed. It wasn't deliberate, it's called 'playing it safe'. You can't win with readers here, 'negative' doesn't cover the half of it.

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the wall says...
1:48pm Thu 29 Mar 12

Get over yourself, people are just having a laugh.

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Jeepo12 says...
3:13pm Thu 29 Mar 12

Well said 'wall'

THanK You

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Outandabout says...
2:19pm Wed 4 Apr 12

Jeepo12 wrote:
Attention seeking old fool.
Oh my mistake. Hilarious comment. How could anyone mistake this for anything but a laugh, dear...when will my sides stop aching

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