You'll never guess what I learned today. French toast bread here comes w/ sesame seeds. Can you believe that?!! Sesame seeds! On French toast! That's like dipping a hamburger bun in batter and cooking it. I was mortified when I found out.
Oh, yeah. And I'm home from work early today. They evacuated the building I work in (AKA the Spam Can). Sometime in the 10 am hour this morning, security guards found a suspicious package behind the building and the Juneau PD were called. They blocked traffic to West 3rd St to investigate. We were told not to use our cell phones in case it was a bomb that we could detonate it.
Walking home during lunch I passed a mean looking police officer scowling at me w/ his arms crossed. He didn't even smile back at me. When I was walking back from lunch I was even asked to walk on the other side of the street. They decided to evacuate the Spam Can and the nearby State Office Building (SOB) at around 2 pm. Me and the girls at work decided to hang around downtown and have lunch in case we had to go back to work (lunch on the Credit Union, of course). But we got the okay from the CEO to just go home after we ate. By that time all of Main Street surrounding the buildings had been blocked and there were uniforms at every road leading to the suspicious package. Even the state troopers were there and an ambulance was called.
In the middle of writing this an officer knocked on my door saying they are going to be removing the package at 5 pm and that it is recommended that I leave. I have to eat French toast w/ sesame seeds. What else is there to live for?
Update: I did leave about 5 mins to 5, I walked around in the rain for 20 mins downtown. Then I went back home. They have cops all over the place but I was able to walk up and down and back up the wooden set of stairs that leads to my road w/ no problems. Now there's a cop right outside my front door. They even got the bomb robot out. I bet it will end up being someone's garbage.
Update 2: They're letting people onto my road now. I guess it's over (6:30 pm). I was kinda thinking a little explosion might be exciting. Then I found out the package was stuffed under a fuel tank. It's about 40 yards from bedroom. Still no word on what was in the package.
Update 3 from the Juneau Empire: Authorities said Thursday no charges would be filed in a bomb scare that led police last week to shut down a section of downtown Juneau near the State Office Building for more than six hours.The suspected bomb turned out to be a coffee maker, said Sgt. Dave Campbell, a police spokesman."
"Your standard Mr. Coffee drip-style coffee maker," Campbell said.
Investigators determined neither the coffeepot nor the backpack holding it was left to create a scare, he said. The backpack was found under a 6,000-gallon tank of diesel fuel. Personal items found with the coffee maker led police to the owner, Campbell said.
