Developing

Discover Yahoo! With Your Friends

Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.

To get started, first

YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    Man Held After Glasgow Restaurant Siege

    A 38-year-old man has been detained following an eight-hour stand-off with armed police at an Italian restaurant in Glasgow city centre.

    Officers evacuated Amarone Restaurant and the surrounding buildings after being called to reports of a man "acting suspiciously" at around 3.45pm.

    A number of roads around Nelson Mandela Place were also closed as specialist police negotiators, armed officers and a Royal Navy bomb disposal unit were dispatched to the scene.

    Strathclyde Police confirmed the individual was detained at around 11.45pm after officers made their way into the basement level restaurant. He was taken to hospital for checks.

    Officers evacuated the restaurant and surrounding buildings as a "precaution" after being called late on Friday afternoon.

    During the stand-off, a Royal Navy  bomb disposal unit arrived at the scene.

    The incident involved one man who was contained alone inside the premises, a police spokeswoman added.

    Negotiators had been speaking to the suspect over a megaphone at the scene before he was arrested.

     
    • Free Speaker...  •  Glasgow, Scotland  •  3 months ago
      "....Acting suspiciously"???? The guy was drunk, went into the restaurant, asked for a drink and was refused so he told them that he had a bomb strapped to him..... HOW is that "Acting suspiciously"?? He probably said it in jest, and is now (after drinking the bar/cellar dry) messing his boxers and wondering why the hell he said it in the first place!! It's not a big restaurant (Yes, I've been there), and it took place at 3.45pm this afternoon when the vast majority of people were still at work..
      • Free Speaker... 3 months ago
        No #$%$ Sherlock!! Really, Sinda? Reading your previous posts, I'd say you're that way too!!
      • andy 3 months ago
        free speaker is an arse piece
      • Intel Fanboy 3 months ago
        Missed my own boxers a few times, and felt cold p1ss running down my leg! ;)
    • DRUMMER  •  Glasgow, Scotland  •  3 months ago
      This idiot went in the restaraunt, drunk as a skunk. He demanded drink, when they refused to give him any, he claimed he had a bomb strapped to his waist. OTT reponse, the restaraunt staff should have taken him down. THERE IS NO BOMB. I hope this idiot gets 5 years for his drunken foolishness.
      • anon 3 months ago
        give him a deep fried mars bar, sugar rush will kill him
      • Desilu 3 months ago
        Thanks for the H/T Drummer it,s more than we,ll get from Yahoo
      • DRUMMER 3 months ago
        I live 3/4 mile from the incident. This is just a waste of police time. A blo'ody drunk causing mayhem and disruption, and a fortune to the taxpayer.
    • Philip  •  3 months ago
      I understand he threw some bread rolls at the polis and said 'take that for starters!'
      • Lynne 3 months ago
        lol thats awful but funny
      • Intel Fanboy 3 months ago
        Frigging brilliant! Typical Glesca humour! ;)
      • Mossie 3 months ago
        Wonderfull!!!!!!!
    • J  •  Bristol, England  •  3 months ago
      Well, I feel sorry for Rab C Nesbit, always in trouble!!
    • CRAZYFROG  •  3 months ago
      Just taser him!
      • lillian 3 months ago
        twice
      • CRAZYFROG 3 months ago
        No, keep the taser on for about 30mins. That'll teach'em!!
      • TERENCE 3 months ago
        JUST SHOOT THE ****
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Glasgow, Scotland  •  3 months ago
      One of my neighbours got done for stealing 100,000 Embassy coupons. He got six months and an electric kettle
      • A Yahoo! User 3 months ago
        was he able to use the kettle in his cell - what are you on about?
      • Mark 3 months ago
        I think it was a joke - clearly went over you 'Shandy'
      • Dan 3 months ago
        That joke has a beard on it!!..C'mon you can do better than that!!!..surely!!!
    • Eric  •  Wigan, England  •  3 months ago
      Nelson Mandela Place, isn't that where Del boy and Rodney lived.?
    • stuart  •  3 months ago
      Love that term "Trained negotiators" are not bus drivers, brickies, doctors, plumbers, police, teachers, fireman, electricians etc etc trained?
    • Darren  •  Birmingham, England  •  3 months ago
      47 Asian child molesters from Rochdale on trial at Liverpool Crown Court this week and it's all being hushed up because of who they are, not a word about it in the press or on TV, the 'unite against fascism' fools are there actually defending them, and the plod are there protecting them and the asian paedos, there's about 100 plod there repressing free speech. you tube "Liverpool crown court" and see the demos. copy and paste this in every forum you visit.
    • mudgely  •  Sheffield, England  •  3 months ago
      obviously didnt like the pork, or the bill
    • A Yahoo! User  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      Travelling from St. Enochs to Nelson Mandela Place - no wonder things kicked off-lol
    • CAROLINE  •  Glasgow, Scotland  •  3 months ago
      We weren't given a choice on this street's name,it was our pc councillors that decided to name it after a terrorist,bomb threats are becoming all too common in the U.K. and our stupid Government is sitting back and letting it happen-I blame Tony Blair and his immigration policy as well as getting us into wars that have sweet f.a. to do with us then he buggers off to safety and leaves us gripped by the skeletal hand of terrorism,he also leaves the problem for another Government to deal with,Tony Blair is not a man he is a snivelling,cowardly rat.
    • Andrew Howard  •  Huddersfield, England  •  3 months ago
      This isn't any way to behave in a restaurant or in public
    • Parcel  •  3 months ago
      Some people will do anything to avoid paying the bill!

      Next!
    • LAURENCE  •  Ilford, England  •  3 months ago
      Gonnae no dae that .
    • John  •  3 months ago
      Laugh away but I would not be in London this summer for any amount money, the sales of brown trousers will rocket, so no stiff upper lips just soggy wet bottoms......................
    • William  •  Brighton, England  •  3 months ago
      it must be cold the police were wearing balaclavas
    • jerry  •  3 months ago
      47 Asian child molesters from Rochdale on trial at Liverpool Crown Court this week and it's all being hushed up because of who they are, not a word about it in the press or on TV, the 'unite against fascism' fools are there actually defending them, and the plod are there protecting them and the asian paedos, there's about 100 plod there repressing free speech. you tube "Liverpool crown court" and see the demos. copy and paste this in every forum you visit.
    • George  •  3 months ago
      Nelson Mandela Place! NELSON MANDELA PLACE!
      Its Glasgow for f*cks sake not South Africa? What fluffy left wing PC pratt got that idea in place.
    • Alistair  •  Dundee, Scotland  •  3 months ago
      All over now, he is under arrest after the place was stormed by armed police.