Megabus M6 terror scare caused by 'fake cigarette'
Published Jul 5 2012, 17:02 BST | By Mayer Nissim
The M6 was closed in a terror scare today (July 5) caused by an e-cigarette, it has emerged.The toll carriageways were closed in both directions after a member of the public reported someone on a Megabus pouring a liquid into a bag causing smoke or fumes.
"The information received concerned a report of vapour escaping from a bag which on investigation turned out to be a health improvement aid for smokers," a Staffordshire police spokeswoman said.
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An earlier force statement read: "At around 8.20am today we received a report from a genuinely concerned member of the public about suspicious activity on a coach travelling on the M6 toll at Weeford, near Lichfield.
"Staffordshire Police coordinated a multi-agency response. Given the nature of the report we responded swiftly and proportionately, treating the information as credible and extremely seriously."
It continued: "Following an initial assessment, we can confirm that no-one has been injured and that there is no danger to passengers at the scene or any other travellers who were on the motorway at that time.
"We are also not treating anyone as a suspect... Importantly, we are not treating this as a counter-terrorism incident."
Watch BBC video footage of the incident below
Not ready for attack. Easily get a coach from Kent with bomb and blow at canary wharf. They never check the coaches. Same on tube. Simple........
July 6th 2012 at 6:07am
Cos of course, it just happened to all take place on a wide area of road with an unobstructed view for the press so they could see all these bomb and army vehicles, guns, police dogs, radiation tents. This my friends was a psyops awareness excercise ... put all dem terrorists off!
July 5th 2012 at 11:18pm
Yeah, cos if there's one place that makes terrorists furious with rage, it's the M6 toll at Weeford, near Lichfield.
July 5th 2012 at 8:08pm(+1 like)
Oh people!! 9 & 7-11 were government inside jobs. Have a look on Youtube under Olympic conspiracy 2012 and also the "Arrivals" series. Seriously opened my eye's....
July 5th 2012 at 7:26pm
7-11 is a chain of convenience stores in America. The government were responsible for those, were they? Good on them!
July 5th 2012 at 8:11pm(+2 likes)
7-11 WTF, you mean 7/7
July 8th 2012 at 12:24am(+1 like)
I think it's good that they treated this as a potential terrorist attack (or similar).
What if they had treated it as a hoax, not acted as they did and it WAS a genuine attack?
Since 9/11 I would a majority of country's are on "heightened alert"
July 5th 2012 at 6:18pm(+1 like)