Yesterday turned into "afternoon/evening of call outs". The first one ended up being a bit suspicious but fortunately nothing to it. The second one on the other hand...
We got called out to a local house late that night. A homeowner got done with work, went to check the mail & saw what looked like a bomb in their mailbox. Wisely, they then decided to leave it alone & call the police. So, we then show up & do our thing figuring out what is going on.
Apparently, we have a local business who thought it would be a good idea to make up fake bombs and put them in clients mailboxes with a note about the "dynamite business" they could do.
Really? Someone not only thought of this wonderful plan, but no one else in the office stopped to say "Hold on, this might not go over too well these days."
So instead, we scared the crap out of the homeowner, we inconvenienced and scared all the neighbors moved from their homes for several hours, we tied up police & fire resources on a busy Friday night. All because you thought you'd be "different and stand out." Trust me, you did.
Everytime I read some story in our paper on a bomb squad call & people bitch about "wasting tax dollars" and such, I just want to point to things like this...
4 comments:
Wow. Any chance you can send the bill to the 'dynamite' company?
Hopefully that company gets slapped with a lot of fees/fines that provided plenty of needed "growth" in the common-sense area.
People will always whine and complain about something that inconveniences them in any little way. Right up to the point where they are in dire need of those same inconvenient services. Then they'll typically whine and complain about how long it took _____ service to get there.
You see these on the news now and then, I've never understood how someone could think its a good idea....
Hopefully you can get recompense from that 'company'...
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