I wouldn't be so flippant,its said that the soviets used booby traps designed to look like toys,and a one inch wide sheet of plastic explosive in a claymore like device designed to attract attraction especially kids is a real terrorist possibility
It's a possibility. But it's not a likelihood.
When it comes to airports, Freepers are up in arms about the inconvenience they undergo at the security screenings. "Profile!" they cry. "Look at past offenders and use that to screen future threats! You have limited resources and they must be applied economically!"
But that lesson doesn't seem to apply here, for some reason I can't figure out. "Don't profile!" they cry. "Anything could be a bomb! Shut down entire cities over anything reported to be suspicious, no matter how un-bomblike it is!"
Claymores are antipersonnel devices, BTW. A smart terrorist wouldn't attach one to a structure many meters above ground level over vehicular traffic; he'd put it close to ground level in an area full of pedestrians. He'd point the "face" towards those pedestrians so the ejecta would hit them, instead of flying over their heads or hitting other concrete structures. He'd also camouflage it, instead of putting glowing Mooninites all over it. And the objects in question weren't big enough to hold a 1" sheet of explosive. Caution was prudent until these facts were ascertained, but after that, someone should've thrown a rock at the thing so everybody could go home.
Live in fear if you want. I know I am not getting out of here alive, better to live one day laughing at the devil than a hundred years being afraid of every package in the street or stranger on the street.