Police Shut Down Tesco Supermarkets Across UK in Safety Alert

Fox News ^ | 7/14/07 | AP

[pacelvi]

LONDON — British police closed at least 11 Tesco supermarkets across the country Saturday because of a security alert, authorities said.

The manager at a in Barrhead, near Glasgow, told Britain's Press Association that staff were sent home around 12:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) after a power failure. But an unidentified employee at a neighboring shop said police had told him there had been a bomb threat.

Police in Hertfordshire, where Britain's largest supermarket has its headquarters, said no one had been hurt and that the move was a precaution. Police did not immediately give further details.

Excerpt

[Clara Lou]

What?? Not on Drudge first?

[mom4kittys]

Tainted Chinese products?

[jacquej]

I have been listening to this, and wonder what the heck they think could be going on.

Bomb threat?

[EagleUSA]

Do I smell radical Islam???

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Fox hired news people for the weekend??

When did this start?

[Mamzelle]

Hospitals, pubs, markets...schools?

[Clara Lou]

Bad food springs to my mind. The TV guy says perhaps a threat to the store chain.

[jimbo123]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1275244,00.html

Police Shut Tesco Stores
Updated: 19:22, Saturday July 14, 2007

At least 11 Tesco supermarkets across the UK have been closed by police in a safety alert.
One force said the move was “a precaution”.

The company is working with police Officers from Hertfordshire, where the firm has its headquarters, said no-one had been hurt.

They said the closures affected stores in Lancashire, Suffolk, Dyfed Powys in Wales, Fife in Scotland, Leicestershire, Humberside, West Mercia, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Strathclyde and London.

A Hertfordshire police spokeswoman said: “Police are investigating a series of incidents in a number of locations across the country involving Tesco stores.

[Chuck54]

Nothing to see here folks. Let's move along now.

signed:

DumpsterUndergraduate

[Clara Lou]

LOL! She seems typical of FOX— not so professional, but blond.

[NonValueAdded]

Food contamination alert, perhaps, based on intel. Maybe hajii learned from the Chinese foodstuff crisis that it is a good way to terrorize the masses. And they’re right.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

UK Emergency Closes 11 Supermarkets.

[Perdogg]

They found a tube of toothpaste, they didn’t know what it was.

[mom4kittys]

You are so baaaad! ~LOL!

[CJ Wolf]

Roflmao!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

"Can you smell what the (dome of the) Rock has been cooking?"

I'll be impressed if you get that. :o)

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Wonder who owns the Tesco stores?

[stm]

Chinee toofpaste no goood. Baaaaa fa yu!

[Palladin]

Heh, heh, heh...