Overreacting to Potential Bombs
This is a ridiculous overreaction:
The police bomb squad was called to 2 World Financial Center in lower Manhattan at midday when a security guard reported a package that seemed suspicious. Brookfield Properties, which runs the property, ordered an evacuation as a precaution.
That’s the entire building, a 44-story, 2.5-million-square-foot office building. And why?
The bomb squad determined the package was a fake explosive that looked like a 1940s-style pineapple grenade. It was mounted on a plaque that said “Complaint department: Take a number,” with a number attached to the pin.
It was addressed to someone at one of the financial institutions housed there and discovered by someone in the mail room.
If the grenade had been real, it could have destroyed—what?—a room. Of course, there’s no downside to Brookfield Properties overreacting.
Juergen • May 8, 2012 7:11 AM
You can even buy those from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Collectors-Armoury-28-100-COMPLAINT-DEPARTMENT/dp/B002YER1D4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1336479015&sr=8-3
So… to shut down a large office building, all I need to do is order one of those and have it shipped to that building? And I wouldn’t even be doing anything illegal…