Bomb Threat

Kira and I have had a couple exciting weeks. Last week I was at work, at a job where I am temporarily working for a few weeks, when suddenly the secretary at the front desk comes in and says "what are we supposed to do if there is a bomb threat?" Of course that caught me off guard. She said that somebody had called her office on the phone and just said "bomb threat," and then hung up, then the person called again and did the same thing. She dialed *69 but it said the number was blocked. We went into her office and she called the head manager and asked what to do. He said he would look at the protocol for bomb threats and then immediately got on the intercom and told everyone to evacuate the building.

We stood outside for the next hour and a half to two hours. The police showed up to search the building for any bombs. They didn't have any bomb dogs with them though, because both of Tuscaloosa city's bomb dogs are injured right now. The police took a couple of managers into the building with them to see if anything could be out of place or look like a bomb, after a while they decided it was safe, so we all went back to work.

I guess it was a prank from someone, since its been a week now and no bombs. The police are subpoenaing the records from the phone companies now so that they can track down the person who made the call. Last I heard, if the person does get caught, because no bomb was found, he can only be charged with a nuisance. You can only have a bomb threat if there is actually a bomb - that's what I heard from some people today anyway. I should probably look it up myself. I think that would be ridiculous though. If you act like you have a gun, even if you don't and are robbing a store, the law will treat you as if you actually did have the gun. They should do the same thing for a bomb threat, in my opinion. If you act like you have a bomb and cause others to reasonbly believe that you have a bomb you should be held under the law as actually having the bomb.

Right now Kira is stuck at our apartment complex, the Royal Hills Apartments and can't leave, and I can't go home because there is an armed man in a truck there and there are cops all around. Here is the news story: Police negotiate with armed man locked in pickup, and Kira will write about it. She was outside with the neighbors for a little while watching what was going on, and took some pictures and video. Now they police told everyone to go inside there apartments though, which is a good idea, I would rather just have her be safe.