Just a real quick note.......the massive over response of the state and local police are what caused the inconvience......just as seeing 4 or 5 "emergency" vehicles blocking intersections are a huge over reaction to a medical 911 call.
Can we lock up the dispatcher that sends off the call too?
No, we can't lock up the dispatcher too. If a citizen reports a strange electronic device placed at the city's infrastructure (or anywhere, for that matter), the police and homeland security have an OBLIGATION to address the problem. To have done otherwise would have been a serious neglect of duty. A couple of years ago, I was having lunch at a sidewalk restaurant on Newburry Street when the police pulled up and cordoned off the street and sidewalk in front of the restaurant. They quickly proceeded to clear all of us out of the restaurant while they brought in the bomb squad to check on a suspicious vehicle parked in front of that restaurant, a vehicle with a large, unlabelled black box sitting on the back seat. It was an out-of-state license plate and it had been overparked there for several hours. Fortunately, the box was identified as harmless, and the police returned the area to normal. Not one of us at the restaurant or on the sidewalk complained about the police response, even though, in my case, the affair screwed me out of my dessert! :)