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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Inhumanity of bomb scare scary

In this business, you would think it would be easy to grow immune to man's inhumanity to man. It isn't. Mothers killing their own children. Teens mindlessly getting behind the wheel drunk, killing others. The seemingly endless bullying of the weak by the strong.
But the story, and photos, in today's paper about the bomb scare at a Lakewood nursing home/assisted living facility, which led to the evacuation of 330 residents in the rain, is the ultimate in man's seemingly limitless capacity for inflicting pain on the most vulnerable.
If there was any good news to be gleaned from this story, other than the efficient and compassionate response from nursing home employees, emergency personnel and others, it was the fact that the person responsible for calling in the bomb scare, if caught, could face a 25-year jail term if found guilty of a first-degree offense. Someone can be charged with a first-degree crime if the bomb scare results in someone getting hurt or killed. Fortunately, no one died in Lakewood. But one person fell, another had a panic attack and a third had a possible minor stroke while being evacuated. Who knows if there will be any long-term ramifications. It also was encouraging to read that the county Prosecutor's Office said it had several leads. It needs to find out who did this.

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