Hundred Hand

Today 7th ave around where I work was closed down due to a bomb scare. What caused this scare, do you ask? Well it was due to a suitcase being left in a nearby Starbucks. Yes, very scary indeed.

Not that it was a huge deal; we just had to enter and exit the building through the basement parking garage instead of the front. Though, it does seem excessive how skittish Americans, and especially New Yorkers are nowadays. Safety procedure is to assume every piece of trash capable on concealing a bomb is actually a bomb. Then we have to get cops to rope off the area, a bomb squad to come in and disarm it. Seems like a lot of work just to throw away someone’s trash from lunch, or a forgotten backpack. I’d like to think that if someone really wanted to plant a bomb they could come up with a better way to do it; especially when there are posters everywhere telling people to call the cops if they see packages lying around, unclaimed. However, seeing as how these plane explosion attempts always fail, we are dealing with some pretty incompetent terrorists.

And haven’t we missed the whole point of this thing? Weren’t we adamant about not allowing the terrorists to change our style of life? And we decided that the best way to not change anything was by changing everything and causing a great number of inconvenieces in the pursuit of safety? There are so many people in New York, and we really don’t need them all. Wouldn’t we save time and money and improve our quality of life if we weren’t so overly cautious?

There’s probably a good reason I’m not in charge of security here.