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For the second day in a row, Irvine Valley College officials faced a “time of crisis” at the normally quiet Irvine campus, when, on Thursday, an object was found on a campus sidewalk.
On Wednesday, for over an hour, classes were disrupted by evacuations as authorities examined a canvas bag rolled up and taped to hold about two pounds of sand in the “shape of a hotdog.” The object was originally discovered in a closet inside IVC’s administration building and was immediately tossed out into the A-quad, whereupon it was instructed to “move along.” When the object refused to move, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s bomb squad was called to the scene. At about 9:30 a.m., officers evacuated the four buildings surrounding the A-quad and, using a sophisticated mobile robot system, carefully secured the object and X-rayed it.
By 10:30, the object, which proved to contain only sand, was declared to be “unremarkable,” and students and instructors were instructed to return to their classes.
At about 2:00 p.m. today, at a location near yesterday’s incident, yet another object was discovered. College officials immediately cleared the area around it and poked the object with a stick.
Glenn Roquemore, president of IVC, then called the bomb squad to the scene, and again, the object was manipulated and examined using the mobile robot.
After about fifteen minutes, the object was declared to be “perfectly unobjectionable.”
Said Randy Sturgeon of the Sheriff’s Department, “I told the college president that if he found any more objects, he should just leave them there and try to forget about them.”
UPDATE:
7 comments:
A single, companion-less shoe? Whoever left that is a genius! Who knew that abject terror could be produced simply by placing a solitary shoe on the sidewalk! God, it gives me chills!
Heartbreak Cafe?
What gives?
Who stars?
Aren't you making fun of something very serious?
Isn't it better to be safe?
Take all precuations?
Maybe, just maybe, in an institution of higher learning, someone could have just counted to ten, taken a deep breath, relied on critical thinking and, well, decided that a sandbag was a sandbag instead of calling in the local Homeland Security forces.
Hopw mcuh - if any - does a display like that cost the college anyway?
More than the trip to Orlando?
Less than the salaries of the now let-go nighttime maitenance crew?
Does the robot get an hourly rate?
You go, "I'm Just Saying"! It's not like the people who worked the graveyard cleaning crew had new jobs to go to.
If this district is so broke that they have to cut instructional supervision for courses offered on TV and the internet and cut janitorial services, it seems those in charge would be interested in doing all they could to ID an object before calling the sheriff.
No one wants shrapnel in their backside, but come on. Without laughter, life at this college is a killer.
"killer" -- ?
is that some kind of threat?
You guys at IVC have all the fun.
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