Back
in 2006 when I was doing agency work getting nowhere with my
life, I was working in a postal room in the old CIS tower in
Manchester doing a very tedious job for minimum wage. I remember a
conversation surfacing about the Manchester IRA bomb on
Corporation St, which had happened a decade beforehand. It was
probably the tenth anniversary, and the radio news would have been
discussing it retrospectively.
One
of the people working in the post room- some guy, he may have been
young or old, I dunno- he claimed he knew one of the ambulance
workers who'd been called to the scene. The ambulance worker had
entered the Marks and Spencer, its glass panels
smashed by the explosion. The detonation had ruptured the sewage works
under the building, and this had led to rats scurrying out of the
split drainpipes, some of them as large as small cats, grown obese on
the city's waste.
After
evacuating the building, the ambulance worker then emptied the shop's tills and walked
out with fourteen grand stuffed into the pockets of his overalls. And
fourteen grand in 1996 would have got you a fair bit more than it
would today.
Talk
about perks of the job.
Is
this a bullshit rumour, or is there some truth to it? Drop me a
comment if you know. I'd love to hear from you.
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