So we can go bat-shit crazy. Over a chess set.
MANDEVILLE, LA (WGNO) – Mandeville police spend Saturday afternoon investigating a suspicious package that was found at the front door of a home on Devon Drive. According to Chief Rick Richard, a former IRS employee lives in the home.
The roads around the home were blocked by police. Some neighbors closest to the scene were told to leave their homes. Others were asked to stay indoors while Mandeville’s bomb squad investigated.
According to police, an initial x-ray of the box revealed, what appeared to be, all the elements needed for a pipe bomb. They used a robot to blast the box with a water cannon.
Once investigators could get a close look at the box, they found out it was a chess set. They say the intricate pieces looked just like parts found in pipe bombs.
Around 5:00, the streets were cleared and people were allowed to resume their Saturday plans.
I’m indeed fortunate that my UPS and FedEx boxes haven’t been spotted. I’ve received stuff a lot scarier than a chess set lately.
In an effort to continue to foster happiness, domestic bliss and harmonious interpersonal relationships with your partner, let me recommend that you do NOT listen to this song, look at your lady, and grin:
And no, I run counter the advice in this song myself. Sweetie KNOWS she floats my boat.
How about a little Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major?
Works for me!
1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and ignited the theatre’s roof. Sure! Blame the pyro guy. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. Yeah, in its day, Shakespeare was “must-see TV”, the entertainment of the masses.
1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes”. Can you imagine how much foreign blood has been spilled in France over that last hundred years just so they don’t have to speak German?
1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the iPhone.
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