Today they may be bending wires to survive in captivity, tomorrow the scenario gets much more grim:
Sergeant Obenmeir of the District of Columbia Police Department — and a three-year Bomb Squad veteran — makes a crucial last snip with his wire cutters. He wipes sweat from his forehead with the back of a heavily padded glove, exhaling in relief as the inexplicably included digital timer on the "dirty bomb" freezes at 5.61 seconds. He gets up to cheers from his co-workers (and the insane on-lookers whom are an integral part of human culture) and walks back towards the van...
Unnoticed by most, a New Caledonian crow alights near the defused explosive device. She cautiously hops over to it. A brief flutter of midnight-hued wings and she's perched above its exposed interior. She aprises the guts of the bomb first with one eye, then the other. She's seen this before. She's supposed to do something. A bend in this wire here. Another bend there...
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Date: 2008-08-21 04:28 am (UTC)Today they may be bending wires to survive in captivity, tomorrow the scenario gets much more grim:
Sergeant Obenmeir of the District of Columbia Police Department — and a three-year Bomb Squad veteran — makes a crucial last snip with his wire cutters. He wipes sweat from his forehead with the back of a heavily padded glove, exhaling in relief as the inexplicably included digital timer on the "dirty bomb" freezes at 5.61 seconds. He gets up to cheers from his co-workers (and the insane on-lookers whom are an integral part of human culture) and walks back towards the van...
Unnoticed by most, a New Caledonian crow alights near the defused explosive device. She cautiously hops over to it. A brief flutter of midnight-hued wings and she's perched above its exposed interior. She aprises the guts of the bomb first with one eye, then the other. She's seen this before. She's supposed to do something. A bend in this wire here. Another bend there...
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