So I take my bike out for a ride. It was nice ride out towards King’s Forest. I don’t really go all that far because my back is in bad shape. It wasn’t long then before I decide to turn around and head back home. I like bike rides. I get to see places that I normally wouldn’t go to.
So as I get closer to home I decide to travel through Gage Park. Just skirt the northern section where all the flowers are laid out in large plots. Today I see police officers and several vehicles in the park. I thought they were there as part of some practice maneuver. Not quite. They were getting ready to handle a real emergency.
I was stopped by one of the officers and informed that I had to make a detour around the area I was travelling through. You see, someone set up something in the trees. I was told that they are treating this odd looking device as a potential explosive threat. I rode around and grabbed my camera and took a long range shot of the device.
Guess I will have to wait for the news tonight to find out if the device was a working bomb. What kind of a person would put such a device in a public park? Even if it turns out to be something else… it takes a weirdo to do such a thing.
I think your last comment: ” there sure are a lot of weirdos in our country “, says it all. If it wasn’t a real bomb, it sure was intended to look like one. Your photograph is excellent. That thing on the ground looks mighty like a battery and there appears to be a wire extending up to the part hanging from the tree. There’s no humor in an act like this: just perverted thinking—no doubt fired by all the communications tools available—-T/V—Internet—Movies—Video Games—magazines—books—and on and on and on——–! Christ died for all these kooks and they don’t know it. How sad.
Good pic Joe. Even if the thing is a hoax, just think of all the money spent on police manpower to check it out. This is becoming a real problem in Toronto. I can’t tell you how many bomb threats on busses we get in any given month. It wastes taxpayers money. Some people have a sick sense of humor. I think it’s the only way they feel they have some sort of power over others.
Hey Joe – did you see the news? It’s not a bomb. Wasn’t even meant to look like a bomb. It’s a mosquito-catching device, apparently put up by university students as a project as some kind. The police said they see this a lot.
They are putting in a request that such devices be registered, so that there isn’t a bomb scare every time a student does a science project.
🙂
A science experiment? You would think that common sense would dictate that the park personel or the police would have been informed before such a device was put in a public place. This isn’t the fifties. There are those who would do us harm… and there are weirdos as well.
I guess the university is too busy to teach proper protocol to their students. Hopefully they will take some time to correct this problem so the police can spend their time protecting us from real villains.