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Originally Posted by summers73
No it's not. Not when thousands of false alarms costs the American people billions of dollars in lost productivity. Life goes on and life has risks. Stop hiding in mommy's basement and get out in the sunshine.
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Explain to me how a cop responding to a bomb call is being unproductive, please.
That's a police officer's job!
No one ever knows if a call is a false alarm or not.
I was working in a building where a restaurant was located at the other end, back in the early 90's. The police came and said they were checking out a bomb threat in the restaurant.
The threat proved to be true. The owner of the restaurant intended to burn it down in order to collect insurance. He had filled 2 55 gallon drums full of gasoline in the attic storage space above and was constructing a detonator. The attic was open all the way down to the other end, where I worked.
If the gas had exploded, it would have taken the entire building down with me and a lot of other people in it. There were about 100 people who worked in the building, and there were at least 2 times that many others who were daily customers and clients of the various businesses.
The next day I learned that 2 women had smelled the gas days earlier, but decided not to make a call for fear that it would be a false alarm.
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Good grief....
