Thursday, March 06, 2008

Watch out for fake bombs

We received our first bomb threat yesterday, at least that the veterans can remember. A man came into our office and complained about a booking we listed. He told the girls at the front desk he had a bomb strapped to his chest. I'm still not sure what the problems was — whether he was mad his name was listed or whether I spelled it wrong.

In any event, he later told officers our newspaper was part of an "evil empire" controlling our town. Hmm, he has a point

The man was arrested and taken to the mental hospital, so we're safe for now. No, he didn't have a bomb.

I really shouldn't make light of this, because if the guy really had blown up our building, I might not be here to write this. And that would be really annoying, because I have some stuff I want to do still. If we did spell his name wrong, I would be happy to correct it.

Lesson learned: Don't misspell the names of crazy people.

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