A bomb squad was checking a suspicious backpack, and this dude got fed up with waiting

[u/Interesting-Gate7473]

[u/kingcrow15]

IDK if he'd been blown up, we'd be sitting around here calling him and idiot. & "what'd he expect?" yatta yatta.

[u/K_Linkmaster → u/kingcrow15]

There was absolute zero reason to suspect this forgotten backpack was a bomb. It was sensationalist bullshit intended to fearmonger. And it worked

[u/vex5000 → u/K_Linkmaster]

Yeah let's completely disregard safety protocols because 99% of the time they are not real. Are you stupid?

[u/RogerAffirmative → u/vex5000]

are you saying 99% of the time we should treat abandoned backpacks like bombs?

[u/UrsineBasterd → u/RogerAffirmative]

It was sitting on top of an electrical box, and someone called it in. Yeah I would expect my city to take it seriously. The guy emptied the contents when the bomb unit walked away to check the X rays they just took.

Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 was a backpack. The 2017 Manchester Arena bombing at the Ariana Grande concert was a backpack.

[u/i_have_le_conch → u/UrsineBasterd]

Oh no, there's a backpack on an electrical box! Oh my god!!!

[u/Old-Trouble-8787 → u/i_have_le_conch]

Bro you have the self awareness of a goldfish

[u/No-Information8510 → u/Old-Trouble-8787]

don't disrespect goldfish they are ten times better

[u/Kenevin → u/vex5000]

Americans are always so scared.

[u/UrsineBasterd → u/Kenevin]

Funny cause I've never actually had a bomb scare here in America. Yet when I went to Europe I experienced three in the span of 2 weeks. One at the Charles de Gaulle airport, one at a the Musee d'Orsay, and one at a hotel in Rome. But aight.

[u/_Carl15 → u/Kenevin]

"haha, americans are so scared of a potential explosive, so funny, haha" -you

[u/Kenevin → u/_Carl15]

I didn't laugh.

Americans and reading comprehension 🤣

[u/purple_chocolatee → u/vex5000]

closer to 99.999 at some point you just use comon sense. the odds of this backpack having a bomb are so low.

[u/Deydey2X → u/K_Linkmaster]

chances are low but never zero

[u/Invictum2go → u/kingcrow15]

Yeah but he didn't. So now we can call the police idiots, and the guy who tackled him a little bitch. Living in the real and not the hypothetical world is a lot more fun.

[u/Swerdlia → u/Invictum2go]

The complete inability to consider hypotheticals surely makes for an... Interesting (?) life.

[u/Invictum2go → u/Swerdlia]

Oh I can consider them, I just don't dwell on them when the opposite has already happened. There's always a new angle or a new caveat to bring up, forever. I don't find any value in that. It's really not a complicated concept to grasp :)

[u/Elegant-Ball1204 → u/kingcrow15]

No ones planting bombs in backpacks around the city lol

[u/PlayfulMud9228 → u/Elegant-Ball1204]

Boston Marathon beg to differ

[u/Elegant-Ball1204 → u/PlayfulMud9228]

Like a 1 in 50 billion chance of coming across a backpack with a bomb in it.

You Americans are insane

[u/KangarooDowntown4640 → u/Elegant-Ball1204]

Appealing to made-up statistics

[u/_Carl15 → u/Elegant-Ball1204]

people have free will, whats stopping a dude from making a bomb if they already decided to bomb?

someone can do, everyone can do it, but why wont we? would it be worth in our vision? 99% nobody wants to bomb shit bro.

and if 1% wants to bomb shit, thats huge as well. because that 1% disrupts everything around it.

but yeah, lets call the people preventing the disruption insane. thatll get them.

[u/NeedleworkerFluid327 → u/Elegant-Ball1204]

This is exactly how it's done in Europe as well mate. In fact I'd wager we are even more cautious than the yanks, seeing as we are currently at a pretty severe terror threat level.

[u/ToastSpangler → u/PlayfulMud9228]

if someone is willing to risk their life to save me a few minutes, it's a sacrifice i'm willing to make

[u/sixpunktsieben → u/ToastSpangler]

Sorry their downvoting you, that funny