It's never a real bomb...

That may seem like an odd thing to complain about, but it's really quite boring to have to sit on these damn 'suspicious device' calls for sometimes hours before they find out it's a fucking Walkman.

This morning I was checking out a different call when I stumbled upon a road block. I walk up to the officer and ask him 'what's up', since it must have been something sneaky as nothing misses my scanner hawk ears (oops, I locked my scanner down on a different channel and forgot about it).

The officer told me that there was a suspicious package against the wall. This wall surrounds a big freakin' hole. It's the place where the construction trucks come to pick up dirt. It's about 100 feet deep. It's REALLY big...

Anyway, someone driving by found a suit case. And since the terrorists would want to blow up the big hole in the ground, METRO called out the bomb squad. (Yeah, I'm just being cynical...)

So they arrive and a guy in a bomb proof suit walks over to the suitcase. I'm eyeing him through my viewfinder, 2X extender fully active - lucky for me this street had lights - and it looks like he is running some wire to the suit case.

I jump for joy! It's a real bomb and they are going to detonate it!

I continue to stand and stare through my now frozen camera, waiting for the guy to dive and yell 'fire in the hole!'. Alas it never comes. In fact the bastard opens the suitcase and takes something white out of it.

"Are they going to blow it up?" I whimper at the crime scene bouncers.

"No. It's nothing."

"WAAA! It's never a bomb! Can't they blow it up anyway?" I plead.

"I already asked them. They said no." The cop replied.

I have been on at least ten of these things since I moved here, and not once has it ever been a bomb, and not once have they ever blown it up. That's probably good, but still, I am dying to see something explode around here - assuming no one gets hurt! Bomb scares are turning into the new standoff. 98% of the standoffs I go to, we find out that no one is at home, and they haven't been there for quite some time.

I guess I will just have to rely on tonight's 24 to get some explosions to masturbate to!