I shouldn't laugh, I know, it's serious...
 

Certainly the headline didn't make me laugh. I read and thought: well, fuck.

Quote:

London 2012 - Fake bomb smuggled into London Games park

And then I read on:

For fuck's sake people!

What, in Christ's name is the point of this:

If construction workers are being waved in and out in the run up. It's allvery well saying they'll be doing a thorough check and lock down before the games start...how fucking confident are they they'd find something planted there during the fitting out?

When I used to do deliveries in St. Louis, I was always waived through the security checkpoints at St. Louis City Hall. I found that kinda funny...I could've been carrying some dangerous shit, but the cops or security personnel were just like, "Hey man, go on through!"

The passes we needed for entry to an Open Golf (never call it the British Open - the snobs don't like it) tournament never turned up one year. I got 15 or 16 technical staff and 'humpers' in using two passes borrowed from the soft drinks company that shared our compound. I have little doubt it would be just as easy today.

I remember helping several people get into Glastonbury one year when they were doing the handstamps. Easy enough to press your wrist up against someone else's and create a faint enough stamp to suggest there's been one there and it has faded out a little.

The entire thing is going to be a fucking catastrophe.

Spoken like a true Brit. I swear, Blue, I got a proper little patriotic shiver :p

Haha!

It's going to be wonderful and I'm going to love it and I will cry.
The Torch is coming through Aylesbury. Right at the end of Dunsham Lane!

I'll be at school :mecry: but Mum and Dad will be there to cheer it past.

Can't you suggest a walking field trip to watch it?

Yeah, an event of that magnitude...the school kids should get to see! Once in a lifetime opportunity for most.

I love the symbolism of the torch. I bet I'd get right teary-eyed if I got to see it.

When the space shuttle was scheduled to fly over Dc on its way to its final resting place in the Dulles Air and Space Museum, the Principal of my son's elementary school arranged for there to be a fire drill and then let the kids mill around outside for an extra 20 minutes before coming back inside so they could get a good look at the shuttle.

These things are a more memorable learning experience than whatever lesson is being taught in the classroom that day. The principle should let the kids go see the torch go by. They will probably never have another Olympics there in their lifetimes.

Trouble is as a school we number 300+ pupils.
It passes over two miles away. Not easy to get them all there and back - certainly not the littlies, although I think all of them will be 5 by then.

I'd vote for having the morning off, then the parents will be responsible for getting the tykes there and back (it's less than half a mile from my house, so I'm-Alright-Jack).

I'm sure some pupils will get to see it - we're big on sports and important occasions - but only a few staff can expect to. The school sports teams and their coaches possibly.

No harm in suggesting it, eh?

I would request it, citing the above reasons put forth by dwellars.

I raised it a while back. The Senior Management Team are already on it.
But I will raise a reminder next time there is a TA meeting.

That would be a proper fucktastrophe.

Merkin version is a clusterfuck.

:cool:

We had something similar to that happen over here during a G8 conference or something just as important. Buggered if I can remember exactly what it was. Not G8 cause we're not in that club, but something equally important with heads of state and such all in one spot.
A group of comedians, from a show called 'The Chaser' dressed themselves up as muslims and managed to get through just about every check point because they were in a limo.

It caused a huge controversy here and across the world. There was a thread on it somewhere around here. Probably in politics. It was during the height of the whole muslim hate hysteria period, so at least a few years ago.

I can't even remember what the conclusion was, but it was a dumb stunt, handled badly by PR companies.

sounds more like a business than a school, Sundae..... :(

Oh goodness no!

The TAs report to the teachers - officially (or mostly unofficially).
The Teachers have a weekly Staff meeting.
The SMT meet fortnightly.
The Governers meet monthly.
And there is a visit from the church board (? can't remember their title) once a term as we are a C of E school.

Oh and OFSTED come to appraise us once every scholastic year.
And that's without the mandatory tests imposed on the pupils by the Govt.
Or by the teachers by the SMT - there's always some sort of "observation" going on it seems.

Aside from that it's a freewheeling kind of place.

It's the reality of the public sector these days, Monster.
You can't just do right or do well, you have to have it signed and sealed in triplicate with officially sanctioned proof that you are doing so.
Even I spend close to an hour every week on paperwork for my two charges. And I only work for 25.

Surely no business could run like that :(

Ali beat me to it, but as she said, Dana, you needn't feel too bad.

The event was the APEC summit in Sydney, and a bunch of TV comedians cruised up in a fake convoy with passes with "FAKE" written on them clearly, and were waved through inside the super secure zone and were approaching the hotel where the world's top leaders were staying, and only stopped of their own initiative.

They were arrested but IIRC there were no convictions because the cops had waved them in and they hadn't broken any laws.