September 9, 2008
As they contemplate the shocking goings on at their company last Friday, Guru reckons staff involved in a midguided teambuilding event at call centre operator Converso in Southend will be breathing a huge sigh of relief that they don't work in London.
Armed police were called to the site when the teambuilding event backfired spectacularly as members of the public 'mistook' the sight of pretend mystery gunmen entering the lobby of a building for real mystery gunmen and called in the rozzers.
The boys in blue responded as only they know how and Glock-laden Blue Meanies descended on the poor teambuilders with indecent haste.
In time-honoured Dixon of Dock Green fashion, they then hand a 'quiet word in the ear' of the organisers of the event and warned them of the folly of their ways.
Quite what staff would have learned from having armed gunmen bursting into the office is a beyond Yours Truly, but Guru commends the cops on their speedy response - and the fact that they did not operate the Met Police's seven-shots-in-the-head-before-asking-questions routine as deployed at Stockwell tube station.
The Essex chief of police be should clearly be considered for Sir Ian Blair's soon-to-be-vacant job... if Blair ever takes the hint, that is.
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