Every once in a while, I practice for becoming an old man by scrunching up my face, shaking my fist in the air and grumping "Hey you kids, get off my lawn!" I was reminded of this when I came to work this morning. First I had to get over this sight sitting smack in the middle of the parking lot entrance.
Once I calmed down a little and stopped worrying about the implications of the Bomb Squad sitting in the parking lot, I got to thinking "Not again!" See, this is the third or fourth time that we've had a bomb scare on campus this semester. Apparently this is a trend on campuses this fall. I don't remember a bomb threat in the past four years, and now three or four this semester.
In this post 9/11, homeland security era, I can't believe anyone is stupid enough to try this. Not only are they stupid enough to make a bomb threat, the threats have been e-mailed in. Not only are they stupid enough to e-mail the threats, in two cases they e-mailed them to a "general administration account" late on a Friday. In one case this was on a long weekend, so the e-mail wasn't even retrieved until the following Tuesday afternoon.
And when I think to myself: "Kids today..." I wonder how old I really am.
Oy!
Once I calmed down a little and stopped worrying about the implications of the Bomb Squad sitting in the parking lot, I got to thinking "Not again!" See, this is the third or fourth time that we've had a bomb scare on campus this semester. Apparently this is a trend on campuses this fall. I don't remember a bomb threat in the past four years, and now three or four this semester.
In this post 9/11, homeland security era, I can't believe anyone is stupid enough to try this. Not only are they stupid enough to make a bomb threat, the threats have been e-mailed in. Not only are they stupid enough to e-mail the threats, in two cases they e-mailed them to a "general administration account" late on a Friday. In one case this was on a long weekend, so the e-mail wasn't even retrieved until the following Tuesday afternoon.
And when I think to myself: "Kids today..." I wonder how old I really am.
Oy!
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