FP tube last night

Tallboy

Came out of FP tube station last night about 9-ish. Was waiting for the W3 when a recorded message started to ring around from the station asking for Mr ???? to report immediately to the operations room.
The message was on an almost constant loop, and I started to feel sorry for Mr ???? ("he's only human, give him a chance to get there"). Then I realised that Mr ???? probably wasn't human and the message was a coded alert.
And then the message changed, to an instruction for all to evacuate the tube station due to an emergency.
Anybody know what happened?

Arkady

It was fine when I came through about 9:30-10.

Jamber

Noramlly it's calling "Inspector Sams" (or Sands) and it's code for there's a fire alarm going off somewhere in the station - it is then often followed by an evacuation. It's always quite alarming though especially in the bigger stations and it's on the constant loop and there's lots of police around!

andy

"Inspector Sands": <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Sands>;

ADGS

Surely Inspector Sands is by now so well known as to be fairly rubbish secret code?

I remember one Chuck Palahniuk book included a ton of similar code-names, but do not recall the specifics, and have no idea whether they were true anyway.

graeme

Sure it wasn't an announcement for <a href="">Arhaydis Faakenjaab and Arwilbie Fayed?</a>

Tallboy

Yes, Jamber got it right. It was Inspector Sands.