“May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.”


"This report is maybe 12-years-old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people . . . better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave." ~ Captain Malcom Reynolds

Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Stupid, It Hurts

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:

Melissa said...

Wow. Any chance you can send the bill to the 'dynamite' company?

RabidAlien said...

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.

Ruth said...

You see these on the news now and then, I've never understood how someone could think its a good idea....

Old NFO said...

Hopefully you can get recompense from that 'company'...