Heidi Brown was told she could park her new scooter outside the vehicle registration office while she waited to get license plates. (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20050318/od_nm/britain_scooter_dc)


To her horror, it was blown up by the army after someone reported that it might be a bomb.

Police in Ipswich, eastern England, confirmed on Thursday that a moped had been blown up in a controlled explosion after local business people "raised concerns" that it could be a bomb.

"The moped was chained to the perimeter fence outside the building. We weren't able to identify whose vehicle it was because there were no license plates on it," said a spokeswoman for Suffolk police.

She said the surrounding office buildings were evacuated and three roads were closed off.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported the scooter belonged to Brown, a 22-year-old care worker, who said she had been told she could leave it there awaiting inspection.

She was still waiting while someone got suspicious, reported the suspicious moped, the cops came, the surrounding offices were evacuated, three roads were closed, a demolition team rigs the moped with explosives, everyone takes cover and then BOOM! and I thought the service at DMV in Waldorf was slow.