"Your Honor, I'd like to make a small demonstration..."
Absolutely ridiculous. Even the French are going to start snickering at us if we don't snap out of it. Very disappointed in the bomb squad speaking that PC doubletalk.
You gotta wonder what they're thinking when the pull the alarm switch, "This is so stupid but if I don't follow procedure its my @%%." Or something along that line. The days of ingenuity, rugged individualism, and gumption are being litigated right out of our system. This is one reason I want to scream every time some political or judge wants to make us more like the civilized europeans.
Actually, a firecracker can be used as a detonator (think blasting cap) for many different explosives including a few that would get by bomb sniffer dogs.
Sort of remindes me of the time a certain Fire Department doen in our State Capitol closed a street, called a hazmat team, did an emergency washdown of firemen and rushed them to the hospital in containment suits. Why? It was the first time they ever saw an airbag deploy at a car accident and they were scared to death of the white powder. (Note: This was Pre 9/11).
Cops laughed thier asses off at the fire chief. He eventually quit.
Another example of mindless obedience to rules. Zero tolerance = zero thought required.
Things were different then. I wouldn't have dreamed of touching it.
We have institutionalized hysteria....
Too many she men running things.....
"The world has gone completely mad."
And you just discovered this fact? ;)
It's over folks. We're now the homeland. The United States of America RIP.
And to top that, the BATFE, apparently aware of the bomb squad's assessment that it was a firecracker, is responding to the "incident".
It's just got to be the result of birth-control hormones getting into the water.