Buried within a BBC article about the Police naming two suspects in last ThursdayÂ’s bombing in London was a tidbit that caught my attention…but first, the news:
Officers are looking for Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, and Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27. Ibrahim is being linked to a house in north London, which is being raided…
Two more people have been arrested, taking the total number held to five.
Now exactly what did I find so fascinating? This:
“All five of these bombs had been placed inside dark colored rucksacks or sports bags. All of them were made using the same type of plastic food storage container. These were manufactured in India, and are exported through one company into this country and then sold in approximately 100 outlets across the United Kingdom.“
“The type we are interested in is this six and a quarter liter-sized container with a white plastic lid,” he said. “It has a label describing it as a ‘Delta 6250 with Lid,’ and also has another colored label with the description ‘Family Containers, Delta, Superior Quality.’ Please note that we are only interested in the white lid variety. They are also produced in other colors.”
Who keeps the labels on those things? I peel them off. Anyway, of course, now authorities are appealing to shop owners who remember selling several containers all at once…which sounded logical to me at first…until I remembered that my own saintly Mother never buys these things one at a time. 🙂
All you Aunties out there (as well as those of you who merely shop like them)…quit acting so suspicious. 😉
i thought all desi moms used empty yogurt and cottage cheese containers for all their packing needs….if I’m a cop and I search a brownie, i’m calling in the bomb squad for Dannon’s Plain Yogurt.
“Please note that we are only interested in the white lid variety. They are also produced in other colors.”
I find this hilarious, but I can’t explain why.
and the tubs that kesar/pista kulfi comes in…
I’ve located one! Tooting Market (London), down the road from my hospital!
For those of you who haven’t heard of Tooting, it’s a veritable utopia on Earth, a wondrous mystical endroit of myriad phenomena. For where else upon this Earth can you buy a severed pig’s head (for the one you love), fishnet stockings, Cineblitz, a bag of ganja as big as your head, a Boobyliss hair straightener, a Jamaican dolly that wets herself and henky fish under one roof? Only at Tooting Market.
The Delta Family Container may not be its first brush with the threat of terrorism. Barbar Ahmed, alleged terrorist-backer is a Tooting-ite and my mates’ neighbours were arrested recently in an anti-terrorist raid. MP for Tooting, Sadiq Khan, spoke against Guys, I think I’ve saved Britain with my sleuthery. Probably the world.
and the tubs that kesar/pista kulfi comes in…
it’s getting worse too, if my mom puts food in a container and I forget to return it she goes haywire and promises to never lend me those things again. Maybe John Ashcroft should have a talk w/ my mom eh?
Sorry, that’s meant to say “Sadiq Khan, spoke against some police measures to stop and search suspected terrorists.”
I hate to sound like a long-playing record, but they’ve mentioned India again. And again! BBC and ABC keep repeating the fact the dhabas were made in India. Actually, you know if they called them dhabas on the BBC, I wouldn’t complain.
Anyway, I don’t hear them saying “The bombers wore Casio watches, made in JAPAN” or referring to the backpacks made in the US or Sweden or whoknowswhere they make backpacks.
Thank God they werent made in Pakistan. Every road seems to lead back to Pakistan these days and it would have caused even more heartache and depression amongst our Mirpuris.
Bong Breaker!
Tooting! There used to be this comedy show called Citizen Smith about a mad socialist who wanted to declare Tooting an independent state do you remember it?
Tooting is world famous in London for Jamaican and Tamil food. All the Tamils live Tooting side dont they?
South London eh? All the loopy people gravitate south of the river.
I walked into an African grocery store in Finsbury Park once and they were selling bush meat – forget about pigs heads – just to buy a can of Coke and there were monkey heads and crocodile tongues and stuff for sale – I’m being serious!
hehe.. CNN this morning did a 15 minute report on these damn containers.. they mentioned they went to a store which had only 1 of these containers left.. they interviewed the store owner, ‘we have had a sale on these containers for the last 3 weeks, i don’t know who has bought them.. they have been flying off the shelf life hotcakes..’… i mean, honestly, how the heck are they going to come closer to finding the arseholes who did this horrific thing by this method?
Do I remember it? DO I REMEMBER IT?
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Bong Breaker
Do you remember Some Mothers Do Have’Em?
Ah yes, when the chips are down and the terrorists are trying to blow you up – just remember those 1970’s BBC sitcoms and have a good laugh. Imagine what Frank Spencer would have said to them – oooh Betty – and Citizen Smith would have been blaming the internation capitalist system and Zionist globalisation for the suicide-bombs – hahaha
I never found Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em funny at all. We could go off on one about the classics of British comedy, Blackadder, Red Dwarf…but I sense this may not be the time.
Incidentally, when I was posing for that photo outside Tooting Broadway, nobody seemed to get what I was doing. They all stopped to look (I have no embarrassment gene) but didn’t get the reference. That’s what put Tooting on the map! It was aired years before my birth, but hell – every Tootingite goes through a left wing phase thanks to the Tooting Popular Front’s legacy.