Be alert -- your country needs lerts!
Last night there were two bomb scares just a block or two away from where I
live. The first was a rucksack left in a phone box, which the army bomb
squad dealt with and found to be harmless. In the other case, fire officers
spotted a couple of men behaving suspiciously around rubbish bins behind the
fire station -- they ran away, but the bins proved to be making a beeping
noise. So 150 people were evacuated, included 40 very distressed elderly
people from a sheltered housing complex a couple of hundred yards away, and
it was several hours before everything was back to normal. And guess who was
in the back room with her nose in a book throughout!
No, come to think, I heard what must have been the controlled explosions,
and though it didn't seem to be coming from the right direction, assumed
that next-door were slamming their doors *again.
Now the rucksack was almost certainly left there due to carelessness, and
whoever left it has paid by losing his belongings in the bomb squad's
controlled explosion. But the other sounds like a hoax, though nothing has
yet been announced. If so, that is unforgiveable.
joanna
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