It is just as easy to look at the suspected device and determine if it is a threat.
Really? How do you determine what is a bomb just by looking? If you can do that then I am in awe . If there was a call saying it was a bomb why wouldn't they treat it as such? Had it been a bomb and they didn't react they would have been slammed. I guess you could offer to go be a bomb spotter. I think we better get used to checking things out or get bombed. I don't have the answer. What I do know is that had they told the city what they were doing then this wouldn't have been such a mess. Seems simple enough to me.
"How do you determine what is a bomb just by looking?"
Are you from Boston by chance?
Do you think Boston has a Bomb Squad? Portable bomb sniffer? Trained dog?
"I think we better get used to checking things out or get bombed."
Great, lets start by checking the millions of people who cross our borders unchecked.
Stupid should hurt.