Shortly after I became the Clerk of Court, I was in the courtroom underneath the judge's bench looking for the so-called "panic button" that the judge is supposed to use in case of emergency to call the military police.
I found a strange-looking box attached to the underneath of the bench and started fiddling with it. Surely, this couldn't be the "panic button": one end of the "box" was able to be pushed in and couldn't be re-set back out without a key, but it didn't look like a "button" ...
Approximately 30 seconds to a minute later, as I was fiddling with the box, the judge came up behind me and informed me that there were about a dozen heavily-armed MPs in his office wanting to know if he was all right ...
Was he?