A BOMB GROWS IN TOLUCA LAKE ??

To everyone who hasn't been living under a rock, on Sunday night we were made aware that our evil arch nemesis Osama Bin Laden was killed by Call of Duty: Black Ops, …I mean Special Ops in Pakistan and the Mets beat the Phillies 2-1. So on everyone’s mind has been the possibility of some sort of terrorist Taliban Jihad retaliation against us in the United States of America & can the Mets win another game ? Let's start with the story regarding the prior story of Sunday evening

So today I am watching the news and the paranoia begins..

1. Police were investigating a backpack that was found in front of the downtown criminal courts building.

2. On Monday, a Metrolink commuter train was evacuated in Riverside because a backpack had been left in a restroom.

3. In San Diego a item suspected of being a pipe bomb shut down the Coronado Bay Bridge for a time.

4. Officers with the LAX Police Department found an electronic device in the backpack of the vehicle after making a routine traffic stop near the south end of the tunnel by Imperial Highway.

5. The bomb squad responded to Alameda and 2nd streets when a suspicious package was founding a tree.

6. And one more that I know of, TOLUCA LAKE, California, that’s right folks,.. in my little old town a suspicious package was found in front of the Toluca Lake Post Office by the street side mail boxes at Riverside Drive & Mariota Ave.

da bomb?

I was driving down Riverside Drive and low and behold, the Burbank Police Dept blocked the street. For the 3 block evacuated area, no one was allowed to enter, and as the curious person I am, I pulled over to take a look. The zoom on this old Pentax, is not very good, but if you look in the middle of the photo you can see a black bag next to the mail box, that's the suspicious package.

About 10 officers were spread around the outskirts of the yellow police tape, telling people to stop and not enter the area, and to stop idiots that tried to enter, through side streets. I also noticed how some people jogging or walking their dog down Riverside Dr. were quite perplexed and some were annoyed at the police for breaking the rhythm of their daily rituals.  I just had to laugh at that.

So anyway the bomb squad walked up to the package very sl... KABOOOOM,…hahaha just kidding. Nope they slowly walked up and set up some equipment and took an x-ray photo of this black duffel bag looking package. 

After processing the film and discussing police procedures, the female member of the bomb squad walked back to the duffel bag, opened it, and slowly started looking through the bag.  The bomb squad then picked up the package and walked back to the Official Burbank Bomb Squad pick-up truck.



So while I don't know what contents of the package, it turned out obviously, not to be a bomb. And that is a relief, because if it was I wouldn't be writing this. So Pats Diner is still there, and so is Timmy Nolan's and Trader Joes.

So as the sun sets in the small little village where I live, and I must say I love this place. And it was good to see the police out there doing their duty and protecting everyone from what could have been a seriously fucked up situation.

Just a quick FYI, I wrote an earlier on my blog an article called "Is Toluca Lake Cursed?" which some of you may or may not have read. But it was quite ironic that the bomb squad was set up in the very same intersection of where the car accident happened.  Hmmmm interesting.

Does this mean there is a curse? Who knows,.. we shall only have to wait to find out,....

MWA,...MWAHA,...MWAHAHAHA,....MWAHAHAHAHAHA *cough* *cough* *cough*

GO METS,..Eddie