UPDATED: French gas leak causes a stink in Dorset (From Bournemouth Echo)
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UPDATED: French gas leak causes a stink in Dorset
3:20pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News
A gas leak at a factory in France is causing a massive stink across the south of England today.
This unpleasant odour, which was present in Sussex and Kent earlier today, has drifted across to Bournemouth.
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed they’ve received numerous calls reporting the smell of gas from across the Bournemouth conurbation.
“We believe these are related to this massive plume in France. Transco are aware and have taken thousands of calls about it as well,” said the DFRS spokesman.
“If the smell of gas is coming from outside your home, please shut the windows and doors. In all probability it is related to this French chemical escape. Calls need to go through Transco in the first instance, as there is little we can do.”
Parents of pupils at Kinson Primary School were asked to collect their children early this afternoon due to the whiff.
A French newspaper said the leak at the Lubrizol company was caused by a chemical substance becoming unstable, causing gas odors that are similar to those of coal gas.
A statement issued by the Seine-Maritime prefecture said: "The gas has an unpleasant smell but is not toxic".
The concentration of the gas was also "very low" but the prefecture admitted that "a large number of people have been inconvenienced".
The gas reached the Paris region in the early hours of Tuesday.
In the Seine-Maritime region around Rouen emergency services were bombarded with calls from alarmed citizens.
Seine-Maritime security official Laurent Mabire told a French news service that the the emergency services had been bombarded with calls.
The Health Protection Agency said: "The smell drifting over Southern England today poses no risk to public health.
"It is caused by a particularly smelly chemical that is added to odourless natural gas to give that its characteristic smell.
"The chemical leaked from a factory in Rouen, France, yesterday and has blown across the Channel overnight. It is not toxic and has also been diluted before entering the air over England, so people should be reassured it will cause no harm.
"It is an unpleasant odour which may cause some people to feel slightly nauseous but it will dispel naturally."
Comments(71)
Tripod
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3:13pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Buddles
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3:14pm Tue 22 Jan 13
To be honest I'm now glad to know the source of the pong!
Lord Spring
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3:23pm Tue 22 Jan 13
We have left the bathroom window open recently to ventilate the room and my wife recons a cat has entered and sprayed. I can find no traceable signs.
Do cats go out in the rain.
speedy231278
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3:26pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Any excuse for the teachers to have yet another day off!!! It's a smell, it won't hurt you, and you won't crash your car on it!
Dorsetbaby
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3:29pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Buddles
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3:48pm Tue 22 Jan 13
If anything use the smell to explain to children why unpleasant odour is added to household gas, make it part of the learning experience!
tinkerbell101
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3:51pm Tue 22 Jan 13
speedy231278 wrote:Speedy, the problem was that the staff could smell gas, and therefore asked parents to pick up their children as they assumed they had a gas leak. It was a safety precaution, not an excuse for the teachers to have a day off!
"Parents of pupils at Kinson Primary School were asked to collect their children early this afternoon due to the odour."
Any excuse for the teachers to have yet another day off!!! It's a smell, it won't hurt you, and you won't crash your car on it!
Controversial But True
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3:54pm Tue 22 Jan 13
jenkey
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3:56pm Tue 22 Jan 13
I absolutely stand by the decision of the headteacher who was acting in good faith and for the safety of the school. The children were safely and calmly evacuated and were waiting on the school playgroup. Can you imagine the fuss if the headteacher had NOT dealt with this issue and there was a genuine gas leak. As a parent I am greatly reassured by the fact that all of the staff at Kinson School put the welfare of the children first.
scrumpyjack
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4:14pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Chiqqy
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4:15pm Tue 22 Jan 13
It smells more like a rubbish tip than gas.
sofa_king_right
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4:37pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Tjones:)
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4:37pm Tue 22 Jan 13
muscliffman
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4:38pm Tue 22 Jan 13
mummy123abc
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4:41pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Any excuse for the teachers to have yet another day off!!! It's a smell, it won't hurt you, and you won't crash your car on it!''
I find this post very ignorant considering Kinson Primary was one of the few schools to open it's doors on friday when almost all schools in the district closed!!
My children go to this school and I went to collect them as soon as I got a text to say there was a possible gas leak and the way they got all the children out of the school quickly and calmly and home with their parents was amazingly well organized.
If the school can smell gas (and the smell was very strong in that area) They can not have children there, it is a health risk! Luckily in this case it was nothing dangerous.
speedy231278
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4:47pm Tue 22 Jan 13
muscliffman
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4:48pm Tue 22 Jan 13
jenkey wrote:So they don't have internet access at this School or anyone with the sense to use it then?
Parents of children at Kinson school received a message at around 2.45pm asking us to collect our children early due to a possible gas leak. At the time nothing had been reported locally in the news about the odour coming from France. I live in Ensbury Park and could barely smell anything but on arrival at Kinson School, the 'gas' smell was extremely strong.
I absolutely stand by the decision of the headteacher who was acting in good faith and for the safety of the school. The children were safely and calmly evacuated and were waiting on the school playgroup. Can you imagine the fuss if the headteacher had NOT dealt with this issue and there was a genuine gas leak. As a parent I am greatly reassured by the fact that all of the staff at Kinson School put the welfare of the children first.
This 'smell' has been widely reported on numerous UK and international web news pages.
'Evacuating' and closing a school in Britian because of a widely known and quite harmless gas leak in a Country across the sea is pushing it a bit!
Still some more time off on full pay I guess...........
mummy123abc
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4:48pm Tue 22 Jan 13
speedy231278
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4:49pm Tue 22 Jan 13
So they just wanted to even up the score! The reports about the smell being a leak wafting across from France have been available nationally almost all day. No excuse for not checking up why the whole county seems to smell of it before a mass panic!
mummy123abc
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4:51pm Tue 22 Jan 13
As I said before when all the schools in the area closed on friday due to snow, kinson was one of the few schools to open. They could have been paid for a snow day too but they didn't they opened the doors and had a normal teaching day.
mummy123abc
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4:52pm Tue 22 Jan 13
phonehome
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4:59pm Tue 22 Jan 13
That would have given them the reason straight away. It could also have avoided a possible explosion if it had been a local gas leak.
jedblade
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5:12pm Tue 22 Jan 13
mummy123abc
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5:14pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Very Old Man
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5:15pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Bliggo
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5:19pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town
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5:26pm Tue 22 Jan 13
mummy123abc wrote:That's why with the youth of today are growing up with no backbone! Panicky parents, panicky teachers and role models. I bet they all have to use sterile gels on their hands every day, total ban on nuts in the school (just in case), play conkers with goggles and steel toe boots, celebrate winter festival instead of Christmas just in case it offends, can't correct spelling mistakes in case they upset the kids! Pathetic! Even if it was a gas leak, what's the worst that could happen for goodness sake!
exactly... and would you want to wait on hold for half an hour with a school full of kids under 11??
BarrHumbug
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5:30pm Tue 22 Jan 13
GAHmusic
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5:35pm Tue 22 Jan 13
mummy123abc wrote:mummy123abc wrote:"
"Parents of pupils at Kinson Primary School were asked to collect their children early this afternoon due to the odour."
Any excuse for the teachers to have yet another day off!!! It's a smell, it won't hurt you, and you won't crash your car on it!''
I find this post very ignorant considering Kinson Primary was one of the few schools to open it's doors on friday when almost all schools in the district closed!!
My children go to this school and I went to collect them as soon as I got a text to say there was a possible gas leak and the way they got all the children out of the school quickly and calmly and home with their parents was amazingly well organized.
If the school can smell gas (and the smell was very strong in that area) They can not have children there, it is a health risk! Luckily in this case it was nothing dangerous.
Parents of pupils at Kinson Primary School were asked to collect their children early this afternoon due to the odour."
I have smelt some schools and can fully understand. :-)
Old Colonial
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5:36pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town wrote:In reply to your last question:
mummy123abc wrote:That's why with the youth of today are growing up with no backbone! Panicky parents, panicky teachers and role models. I bet they all have to use sterile gels on their hands every day, total ban on nuts in the school (just in case), play conkers with goggles and steel toe boots, celebrate winter festival instead of Christmas just in case it offends, can't correct spelling mistakes in case they upset the kids! Pathetic! Even if it was a gas leak, what's the worst that could happen for goodness sake!
exactly... and would you want to wait on hold for half an hour with a school full of kids under 11??
Explosion, fire, and potential high death toll.
Would that be worse enough for you?
mikeba
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5:37pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town
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5:40pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Old Colonial wrote:Don't be so over dramatic! You are a poor role model for the kids. Shame on you.
tramp_about_town wrote:In reply to your last question:
mummy123abc wrote:That's why with the youth of today are growing up with no backbone! Panicky parents, panicky teachers and role models. I bet they all have to use sterile gels on their hands every day, total ban on nuts in the school (just in case), play conkers with goggles and steel toe boots, celebrate winter festival instead of Christmas just in case it offends, can't correct spelling mistakes in case they upset the kids! Pathetic! Even if it was a gas leak, what's the worst that could happen for goodness sake!
exactly... and would you want to wait on hold for half an hour with a school full of kids under 11??
Explosion, fire, and potential high death toll.
Would that be worse enough for you?
muscliffman
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5:42pm Tue 22 Jan 13
mummy123abc wrote:No, but it was a pretty good clue that this was probably not a confined problem.
exactly... and would you want to wait on hold for half an hour with a school full of kids under 11??
So why not immediately begin checking the Internet news, contacting other schools, phoning just about anyone away from the site and even going outside the building to see if the smell was also there (it certainly was/is).
Any of these actions would have established immediately that there was no reason to 'evacuate' and needlessly frighten (seem to be overlooking that aspect!) a school full of young children whilst no doubt alarming their parents - although many probably knew more about the true situation than the school evidently did.
This does not reflect well on the school administraion in my opinion.
bourne free
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5:47pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Any warnings for us then ??
mikeba
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5:47pm Tue 22 Jan 13
muscliffman wrote:You sound the type that would probably brush your hair, pack your bags, have lunch, check your mobile etc. etc. etc. Glad your not in charge of Health and Safety anywhere.
mummy123abc wrote:No, but it was a pretty good clue that this was probably not a confined problem.
exactly... and would you want to wait on hold for half an hour with a school full of kids under 11??
So why not immediately begin checking the Internet news, contacting other schools, phoning just about anyone away from the site and even going outside the building to see if the smell was also there (it certainly was/is).
Any of these actions would have established immediately that there was no reason to 'evacuate' and needlessly frighten (seem to be overlooking that aspect!) a school full of young children whilst no doubt alarming their parents - although many probably knew more about the true situation than the school evidently did.
This does not reflect well on the school administraion in my opinion.
mummy123abc
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6:21pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town
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6:28pm Tue 22 Jan 13
mummy123abc wrote:So if you smell smoke you evacuate wherever you are? What about smoke drifting over from a bonfire or chimney? You have a plan to cover such events and get the kids to a safe place and investigate not just text everyone to come and collect their kids. What about the safety of the parents arriving to pick up their kids? What about the safety of road users and cyclists when a whole school worth of parents are flying to the school to evacuate them? What about the safety and concern of other residents in the affected area? It seems a panic button was pushed too soon for no reason and no thought of the safety of others.
so hold on.. if I smell smoke or gas or there is a potential risk to not only my life but hundreds of children's lives, I should make hast to the nearest computer to see if there is anything going on in the area?? No.. I don't think so! IMO the safety of the kids comes first. Playing conkers is not the same as leaving hundreds of children in a school that is potentially full of pure gas. Some of which are as young as 4 years old!
mummy123abc
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6:56pm Tue 22 Jan 13
So at first it was about children being over protected but now we should protect the grown up public? You make no sense.
I was one of the first parents to collect my children as I live not far from the school and it was very calm and safe, parents were rushing but not in a chaotic way. It was 30 minutes before the end of school anyway as I already said so man parents were already up there waiting. It was handled very well I have to say the staff were amazing.
That is all I will say, they smelt gas they acted swiftly and safely, all the kids were fine, all the parents were fine, the public surrounding was fine. I agree with them to evacuate the kids because the smell was extremely strong. I can not fault anything the school done at all. That is my final say on the matter really..
I think it's sad that some people find the need to slag off a school which they probably have never even been to when people here who have their children in the school have said they agreed with the school and that the situation was handled well. The french gas leak stinks.. The End!
Carolyn43
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7:13pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town wrote:Do read comments properly and get your facts right. The evacuation took place just 30 minutes before the end of school. You've obviously never been near a primary a school you will know that parents are already parked in cars all around the school at least 30 minutes before the end of school ready to collect their children. That means there were a few, if any, "flying to the school to evacuate them" and the roads around the school would be cleared earlier than normal when they left. So the safety of other road users and cyclists wasn't an issue.
mummy123abc wrote:So if you smell smoke you evacuate wherever you are? What about smoke drifting over from a bonfire or chimney? You have a plan to cover such events and get the kids to a safe place and investigate not just text everyone to come and collect their kids. What about the safety of the parents arriving to pick up their kids? What about the safety of road users and cyclists when a whole school worth of parents are flying to the school to evacuate them? What about the safety and concern of other residents in the affected area? It seems a panic button was pushed too soon for no reason and no thought of the safety of others.
so hold on.. if I smell smoke or gas or there is a potential risk to not only my life but hundreds of children's lives, I should make hast to the nearest computer to see if there is anything going on in the area?? No.. I don't think so! IMO the safety of the kids comes first. Playing conkers is not the same as leaving hundreds of children in a school that is potentially full of pure gas. Some of which are as young as 4 years old!
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The children were evacuated into the playground, which is much safer than being in a building if there really was a gas leak and the parents were also safe outside any building.
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The safety of others was fully considered and the correct action taken.
balsey77
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7:13pm Tue 22 Jan 13
At the time of the leak internet news reports were that the gas was in Kent.
As a parent of pupils at the school I received a text, collected my kids and was grateful that the school contacted me. they did the right thing.
tramp_about_town
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7:24pm Tue 22 Jan 13
balsey77 wrote:Well I think whoever made the decision should be held to account for unnecessarily calling for a whole school to shut and damaging the kids education and wasting taxpayers money!
I cant believe that anyone in their right mind would dare to question the schools decision to send kids home from school 30 minutes early when the school stank of a potential gas leak! ....These folk would probably be moaning if the kids weren't sent home!
At the time of the leak internet news reports were that the gas was in Kent.
As a parent of pupils at the school I received a text, collected my kids and was grateful that the school contacted me. they did the right thing.
If parents are sat around in cars 30 minutes before the end of school at every school then perhaps if they all have this sort of time on their hands they should walk their kids to and from school to free up the roads and keep their kids healthy.
Perhaps the parents could volunteer to do lollipop duty too and save some more taxpayers cash.
spooki
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7:31pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town wrote:I'm guessing you don't have children? Or at least, no children at this particular school? I would rather pick my child up half hour earlier just in case than find out afterwards that they had a suspected gas leak but didn't do anything about it. Or perhaps you would prefer they spent the half an hour trawling the Internet looking for related news while scratching their behinds and holding their noses? You are a grown up (I assume). You can make educated decisions by yourself, for yourself.
I make no sense?
You are supporting a school that made a poor judgement call but you are too stubborn to admit it.
Is that the lesson you want the next generation to grow up with?
Being too stubborn or arrogant to admit when you are wrong is not a good lesson to teach your kids.
The end!
balsey77
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7:39pm Tue 22 Jan 13
tramp_about_town wrote:Ok 'Tramp about Town' you go and sit in a classroom that reeks of gas and see how much you learn in 30 minutes.....I suggest a lesson on basic Health and Safety, feel free to smoke too ;)
balsey77 wrote:Well I think whoever made the decision should be held to account for unnecessarily calling for a whole school to shut and damaging the kids education and wasting taxpayers money!
I cant believe that anyone in their right mind would dare to question the schools decision to send kids home from school 30 minutes early when the school stank of a potential gas leak! ....These folk would probably be moaning if the kids weren't sent home!
At the time of the leak internet news reports were that the gas was in Kent.
As a parent of pupils at the school I received a text, collected my kids and was grateful that the school contacted me. they did the right thing.
If parents are sat around in cars 30 minutes before the end of school at every school then perhaps if they all have this sort of time on their hands they should walk their kids to and from school to free up the roads and keep their kids healthy.
Perhaps the parents could volunteer to do lollipop duty too and save some more taxpayers cash.
O'Reilly
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7:44pm Tue 22 Jan 13
muscliffman
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7:47pm Tue 22 Jan 13
balsey77 wrote:No!
I cant believe that anyone in their right mind would dare to question the schools decision to send kids home from school 30 minutes early when the school stank of a potential gas leak! ....These folk would probably be moaning if the kids weren't sent home!
At the time of the leak internet news reports were that the gas was in Kent.
As a parent of pupils at the school I received a text, collected my kids and was grateful that the school contacted me. they did the right thing.
The whole of southern England experienced an odour from a fully explained, well communicated and harmless French gas plant leak - that is the point. No other schools or any other establishments shut in this hysterical manner.
So, it remains a very poor decision.
skippy65
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7:49pm Tue 22 Jan 13
I received 2 text messages, the first at 2:45pm and the second at 3:15pm when I had failed to collect my children. They attend after school club (which is fantastic) until 5:15pm so at this point on a Tuesday I have no reason to sneak a look at my phone. I work within education myself and 'lead by example', ie, I do not have my mobile phone turned on when in lessons. As my lessons carried on until 5pm, I switched my phone on to discover these messages! Not the schools fault by no means, however we provide them with 3 additional emergency numbers and where Tramp has a valid point is with the administration. What is the point of me supplying a work number (admittedly it can not receive texts), 3 peoples mobile number plus landlines in case of emergency if they are not going to be used? When eventually my other half was called, he felt dreadful that our children had needed to wait over an hour before he was contacted, especially as they know my job and have always (seemingly) understood that I am not always available in an emergency and that they must contact him first. Not the schools fault that we both have to work, I must add.
However, it was the reason that they could not call that actually worried me the most...the fact that they did not have access to our contact details. Now, I agree with text messages to get the message to the bulk of the people who are able to access these straight away, but they are not suitable to everyone and I can not be the only parent who struggles here. At 3:15pm when all of the other children had been collected, I struggle to understand why they could not have accessed the records (which surely must have the basic information on and is kept with the registers in each class - mine certainly are) and called my work number (any one of my colleagues would have interrupted my lesson to pass on such important information) or one of my emergency contacts straight away.
This time it was harmless and there was nothing to worry about, however it does make me wonder what would happen in a real emergency. I will certainly be contacting them to query this and, although I still believe they acted correctly assuming they followed procedures, I also believe that the administration could be improved to support the many of us working parents.
Lovely school, great teachers, just a bit of simple common sense needed here.
scrumpyjack
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9:43pm Tue 22 Jan 13
But you would have to be an utter fool to ignore the smell of gas.
Just put 'gas explosion' under google images.
If people are in school all day how are they expected to know about something that was reported in the news during the day?
In my opinion there are 2 trolls working today.
And this from somebody who is normally in the frame.
l'anglais
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10:41pm Tue 22 Jan 13
Tripod wrote:Because 10000 phoned the emergency services in Paris between midnight and 6am last night.
How do they know it reached Paris?
The chemical that is leaking is added to natural gas (which is odourless) to enable us to quickly detect a gas leak.
So lets hope no labourer cuts through a gas main with his jcb over the next few days.
Yankee1
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10:48pm Tue 22 Jan 13
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9
sA
s-pb2
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12:02am Wed 23 Jan 13
muscliffman wrote:So if you thought you had a gas leak at home, your first thought would be to trawl the internet to see if there is a reason which has nothing to do with your property first or speak to someone else on the phone 2 blocks away. Thats mental. The school did exactly the right thing. Get the kids out, then investigate. Safety first. Besides, have you ever worked for the public sector? Half the time the internet never works properly anyway or any relevant site gets blocked!
mummy123abc wrote:No, but it was a pretty good clue that this was probably not a confined problem.
exactly... and would you want to wait on hold for half an hour with a school full of kids under 11??
So why not immediately begin checking the Internet news, contacting other schools, phoning just about anyone away from the site and even going outside the building to see if the smell was also there (it certainly was/is).
Any of these actions would have established immediately that there was no reason to 'evacuate' and needlessly frighten (seem to be overlooking that aspect!) a school full of young children whilst no doubt alarming their parents - although many probably knew more about the true situation than the school evidently did.
This does not reflect well on the school administraion in my opinion.
guisselle
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2:11am Wed 23 Jan 13
Yankee1 wrote:The smell causes funny walks
So. Monty Python did not reach only Studland Beach:
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9
sA
and a man was seen hitting his mini
car with a brolly! Someone found a
deceased parrot blocking the drive
at the school. Teachers were seen
with pegs on their noses.
goldstar500
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3:47am Wed 23 Jan 13
Must be the word of the day!
Hope the weather improves for you all in my old home town.
Carolyn43
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8:31am Wed 23 Jan 13
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Not very likely that there would be a gas leak at the same time, admittedly, but not impossible. So evacuation was the sensible thing to do.
mikeba
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8:34am Wed 23 Jan 13
Carolyn43
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9:55am Wed 23 Jan 13
mikeba wrote:I see from today's report that Southern Gas Networks advised the school to evacuate and attended to make sure it wasn't a gas leak.
Carolyn .. I don`t expect you to get a sensible answer from "Tramp_about_to
wn" ... hasn`t got normal common sense!!!!
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I expect Tramp_about_town thinks they were stupid as well.
mikeba
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10:07am Wed 23 Jan 13
Carolyn43 wrote:Well that just about raps up this stream ... all those who supported the school and the safety of the children and staff have been found to have supported the correct action ... those that didn`t crawl back under your duvets and ignore basic common sense!!!!!
mikeba wrote:I see from today's report that Southern Gas Networks advised the school to evacuate and attended to make sure it wasn't a gas leak.
Carolyn .. I don`t expect you to get a sensible answer from "Tramp_about_to
wn" ... hasn`t got normal common sense!!!!
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I expect Tramp_about_town thinks they were stupid as well.
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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10:11am Wed 23 Jan 13
Listen if you don't have children (who are at school) it should be suggested that you don't even get involved on a comments section regarding children...
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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10:28am Wed 23 Jan 13
Now, in other ways, back in the day when the tolly was used in school, and there was less of this "health and safety" protocol football hooliganism was rife (even even during the 70's and 80's let alone the 90's). Nowadays this is mostly a thing of the past.
Plus my son went to a very strict, zero tolerance, no holds barred, all boys catholic school in the 80's. My point, this school, along with most other local schools were full of bullies, very boisterous and having fights with other schools, etc.
So you can not ever really fault a school saying the way contributes to today's society. Just a thought. Think before you speak. Stop reading the Daily Mail!
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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10:28am Wed 23 Jan 13
Now, in other ways, back in the day when the tolly was used in school, and there was less of this "health and safety" protocol football hooliganism was rife (even even during the 70's and 80's let alone the 90's). Nowadays this is mostly a thing of the past.
Plus my son went to a very strict, zero tolerance, no holds barred, all boys catholic school in the 80's. My point, this school, along with most other local schools were full of bullies, very boisterous and having fights with other schools, etc.
So you can not ever really fault a school saying the way contributes to today's society. Just a thought. Think before you speak. Stop reading the Daily Mail!
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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10:32am Wed 23 Jan 13
scrumpyjack wrote:Very commendable coming from you Grumpy Jack. Hats off to you sir for seeing the light ;-)
I hate 'over the top' safety.
But you would have to be an utter fool to ignore the smell of gas.
Just put 'gas explosion' under google images.
If people are in school all day how are they expected to know about something that was reported in the news during the day?
In my opinion there are 2 trolls working today.
And this from somebody who is normally in the frame.
scrumpyjack
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11:29am Wed 23 Jan 13
Very good.
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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12:00pm Wed 23 Jan 13
speedy231278
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12:12pm Wed 23 Jan 13
So, if I'm not flooded, I can't comment on articles about floods, etc? Child's logic, that one!
Bournesouthmouth Downpokes
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1:45pm Wed 23 Jan 13
guisselle
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1:47pm Wed 23 Jan 13
on a cold and frosty day! Hey its a
beautiful day and everyone should
try and think outside the box!
guisselle
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3:00pm Wed 23 Jan 13
Very Old Man wrote:My poor grandad worked there back in
Looks like the French are getting their own back (finally!) for the stink we sent over there when BDH went bang 25 odd years ago!
the 1960's. Good old Stanley!
guisselle
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3:19pm Wed 23 Jan 13
Yankee1 wrote:Fawlty Towers had a gas leak and
So. Monty Python did not reach only Studland Beach:
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9
sA
Sybil was fuming! Basil had to find a
peg for her nose!
GAHmusic
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5:28pm Wed 23 Jan 13
guisselle
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4:21am Thu 24 Jan 13
as hood-winked, led up garden path
and up the river without a padell....
Its a conundrum quite possibly a
conspiracy to keep us all in order!
guisselle
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1:32pm Fri 25 Jan 13
goldstar500 wrote:Its blinking cold here in the conurbation
Hi all from a sunny West Australia, seems someone had a dictionary for Xmas! Bournemouth "conurbation" !
Must be the word of the day!
Hope the weather improves for you all in my old home town.
so hope you are having a "whale" of a
time in Aussie country with the lovely
koalas! Strewth those dingoes get
everywhere man and what about them
darn kangaroos, how's Skippy? Get
me a cold beer! Cheers goldstar500
Bonjovigirl says...
3:01pm Tue 22 Jan 13