Angelique
08-09-2006, 09:04 PM
BERLIN - A mumbling caller dialed a wrong number and left a panicked German bank employee convinced that a bomb was on its way by express delivery, police said Tuesday.
The man had meant to call a firm in southwestern Germany that repaired pumps, but instead dialed a bank in the eastern city of Chemnitz, police said.
He told the employee who answered the phone that he had sent a pump by DHL and asked for a “diagnosis.” However, police said his diction was so poor that the woman believed he was sending a bomb — “Bombe” in German, rather than “Pumpe.”
She asked the caller what number he had meant to dial before alerting police — but missed the last figure. Police figured out what had happened by dialing through variations of the number.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
The man had meant to call a firm in southwestern Germany that repaired pumps, but instead dialed a bank in the eastern city of Chemnitz, police said.
He told the employee who answered the phone that he had sent a pump by DHL and asked for a “diagnosis.” However, police said his diction was so poor that the woman believed he was sending a bomb — “Bombe” in German, rather than “Pumpe.”
She asked the caller what number he had meant to dial before alerting police — but missed the last figure. Police figured out what had happened by dialing through variations of the number.
© 2006 The Associated Press.