Embarrassment for Games chiefs
May 8, 2012, Tuesday
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A NEWSPAPER embarrassed the organizers of the 2012 Olympic Games on Sunday by disclosing it had smuggled a fake bomb past two security checkpoints into the London complex housing the Games' main stadiums.
The Sun newspaper conducted the stunt on Friday, at the end of a week-long pre-Olympics military exercise that saw a warship sail up the River Thames and plans announced to put missiles on rooftops near the Games venue in east London. The paper said it had given the fake device, a plastic box containing wires and harmless Plasticine, to the driver of a mechanical digger working on the construction of the park, who then drove with it past security guards into the site.
The Sun newspaper conducted the stunt on Friday, at the end of a week-long pre-Olympics military exercise that saw a warship sail up the River Thames and plans announced to put missiles on rooftops near the Games venue in east London. The paper said it had given the fake device, a plastic box containing wires and harmless Plasticine, to the driver of a mechanical digger working on the construction of the park, who then drove with it past security guards into the site.
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