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:: Saturday, October 09, 2004 ::

yo, that shit is da bomb

I left Starbucks this afternoon to go buy an apple down the block and there were all these ambulances, firetrucks and police cars parked alongside the street. There was police tape everywhere and a huge crowd had amassed outside. A cop told me I had to walk across the other side of the street to get by, but being a hard-of-hearing New Yorker, some other girl and I just decided to ignore his advice and sneak by undetected along the street.

As I'm walking by the center of the hoopla, I see this weird robot on wheels moving towards some package. Turns out it was a potential bomb that was called in after someone noticed a mysterious package in the middle of the street.

Needless to say, I'm an idiot. And I'll be taking police advice a little more seriously from now on.

*Edit - funny IM transcript after telling above story to a friend (he thought the robot was part of the threat):

friend: dude, if you got your leg blown off, u woulda looked so stupid for not following directions

friend: cop woulda been like, "i told his stupid ass to go to the other side of the street but no.....this chink wanted to do things his own way."

me: i think looking stupid would've been the least of my worries if my leg had gotten blown off. rather, i think i'd be preoccupied with the FACT THAT I HAD NO LEG!

friend: can't believe some robot was carrying a bomb like package
friend: goddamn terrorists think they're still funny

me: no man! the robot was used by the bomb squad to check out the package
friend: oh ok, haha
me: dude!
me: HAHAHAHAHAHAH

friend: whats so funny?

me: the robot carrying the bomb and you thinking it was terrorists trying to be funny!

friend: hahaha.... well, it wasn't very clear. i thought the robot was gonna detonate the bomb or something like that. cuz that's how i woulda done it if i was a terrorist but i'm not

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