Reading Roars!

Train travel these days isn’t what it used to be (I’m recalling the days of my youth).  Now you have to contend with, famously, the wrong kind of leaves/snow/sun, not actually getting a seat to sit on and scrambling for a good place to stand, and rocketing fares.  Some things never change, however, and that includes bomb scares, for indeed we had them pre-2001, when terrorism was just as real, only less fashionable.

Last weekend Reading Station was evacuated again as a passenger/customer (delete as appropriate) told train guards that she had left an “explosive device” i.e. a bomb on board a carriage.  She allegedly said “We are all going to die.  You will see.  You will all see.”  Technically, her statement was correct as, fortunately, our lives are finite.

Interestingly, the passenger/customer was arrested on suspicion of making false communications, taken to Reading police station “where she was bailed until January 20″.  Other people have not been so lucky.