[danielf]

Originally Posted by Chris T

And so on the one hand we have a preoccupied ambulance crew attending to a load of drunk clubbers staggering out of Tiger Tiger at 2am but still with enough spare wits to spot something wrong with the first car ... while on the other hand we have some jobsworth council traffic 'warden' who lifted the car onto the back of his lorry without at any point thinking there was anything strange about all the cans of petrol and gas loaded into it.

Ermmm, the ambulance crew saw smoke coming from the first car. Perhaps the 'jobsworth council traffic 'warden'' (your words) dealt with a car that didn't have smoke coming from it, or otherwise cried out 'bomb inside'?