And I mean that in the most demeaning way possible.  You may remember the incident not too long ago when Boston officials shut down large parts of the city and detonated some “suspicious” devices that turned out to be nothing more than lighted advertisements for an upcoming movie.  Well, they’re at it again.  Boston officials recently detonated another suspicious device - this one was a traffic counter.

Now, I don’t know who exactly works in the Bomb Squad out there in Boston…and I don’t know what kind of training they get…and obviously they’re a lot more paranoid than I am…  But I have seen dozens of those exact same devices alongside the road over the years.  I asked about them once, long ago, and was told that they were used to count traffic.  I have even seen city officials installing and removing them from time to time.  Sure, you could steal one of the things and use it to house a bomb…but I certainly wouldn’t call the device itself “suspicious”.  And if you’re going to start blowing things up on the off chance that they might be housing a bomb then you’ve got an awful lot of ’sploding to do.

Posted on March 1 at 9:06 AM