"Pinging Regulator Country too because RC was also blaming the clerk."
I was joking on the other thread, but it appears you really ARE quite the passive aggressive one ... it was not a clerk, it was the owner's son. And, he failed to take any sort of action in the face of very suspicious behavior that we've been warned about for TEN YEARS. Had it not been for that plainclothes officer being there (and I am fairly certain now that his being there was no coincidence ), I seriously doubt any action at all would have been taken.
Ultimately nothing came of it, which is very fortunate. Reason being, in my opinion, because that little idiot with the bomb or bombs was under surveillance the whole time.
That may explain the apparently inexplicable lack of reaction on the part of the owner's son, assuming he was aware of the situation.
Why should he, when a POLICEMAN was on the scene, and he knew the POLICEMAN had already reported it? Shame on you. Passive aggressive my foot. Take your psychobabble and stuff it.