Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Doin' what it takes

FOR SOME REASON—plummeting real estate values?—the OC Register is reporting, yet again, that “Two OC cities make 'safest' list.” It asks: “Can you name them?”

Well, sure. According to the FBI, Mission Viejo is the safest city in the country.

Irvine gets the 14 spot and Lake Forest gets the 10. That's three cities, not two. The OC Reg never could count.

I teach in Irvine, and I can tell you it’s pretty darned safe in this silly town.

That’s cuz we play it safe.

For instance, a year or so ago, when a menacing sack of sand was found in one of the rooms in IVC’s A100 building, and it refused to respond to officer queries, they took no chances.

College officials called out the bomb squad. Yup, even one of those robots showed up and did some poking.

The sack of sand turned out to be a sack of sand.

I coulda told ‘em.

But, hey, if that's what it takes to make the 14 spot, I ain't carpin'.

See also
The bomb scare
Ill-advised bottle removal in Mission Viejo

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Campus police here thought they were about to do a drug bust on a faculty office - marijuana - but it was really a prim and proper faculty member clearing the energy in her office with New Mexico sage.

Anonymous said...

I remember the sack o' sand incident! Didn't it turn out to be some administrator's makeshift dumbell? And what was the price tag for calling calling out the robot? Irvine sure is a safe town. IVC will be even safer once they get that security camera system installed. And with the students throwin' books, desks and other crap at the perps, Irvine should make the #1 spot real soon.

Anonymous said...

The yellow cake looks silghtly obscene, - or not . . .

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