Socialist Sushi

The CD here started skipping. It’s playing the theme song to Moonlighting.

Someone is humming along. And a guy across from my is tapping his hand to the beat.

What’s wrong with these people?

Coming back from lunch today at about 1:00 Amber and I spotted several firetrucks down the road from where I work. When Amber left I walked down there, toward the federal building. Part of Oglethorpe was blocked off, as was part of Whitaker, a large truck with Bomb Disposal emblazoned sitting there with lots of cops and firemen milling about.

At about 2:30 I went to the post office. In the square behind my office stood fifty of so people who worked in the federal building — they still had not been allowed back in. I don’t know how long they stood out there.

Here’s what I thought. If I wanted to do nasty things, I would call in a bomb threat but actually put explosives wherever the people would evacuate. Pipe-bombs wrapped in chains in trashcans, whatever. Telfair Square would be perfect for this, people standing in a nice open area with plenty of trashcans and benches to hide things. This would do two things, as I see it: Cause the normal disruption of something like this, and also create more confusion next time a threat is called: people wouldn’t want to just stand around.

If something like this is gonna take hours, wouldn’t it be better to send people away for two hours or so? That way they’re not standing around in one spot.

Not a happy thought, but just kinda curious how things like that are handled and if I’m the only one who has ever thought about it.