Wednesday, October 12, 2005

There was a bomb threat today and I was right in the middle of the action where it all happened!!! After school today, I went to join my sister for some shopping in the city area and suddenly all these policemen turned up and cordoned off the entire area in front of the Australian Post Office Headquarters. ( Right opposite of the train and bus stations). Instead of the outspread panic that anyone would expect, onlookers formed crowds and everyone settled down for a piece of the action. Speculation was rife among the crowd as to the actual cause. An elderly gentleman consulted with a policeman nearby and proceeded to announce calmly to the crowd, "It's a bomb threat", as if it happened everyday. Right...

So instead of staying as far away as possible, everyone stayed nearby, presumably to catch the fireworks as it goes off and not a small proportion of people took out handycams and cameras to capture the action, and nearly everyone of them hoped to be the one with the award-winning footage and perhaps even win the Putlizer (sp??) prize. Not to be outdone and overcome with the "kiasu" Singaporean spirit, I took out my handphone and started snapping away as well, after which the "kiasee" Singaporean spirit took over and I hurried as fast as I can in the opposite direction, hoping to put as much distance between me and the threat as soon as possible. It really behooves me though, how people can sit down there and watch it. If it was a real bomb threat, the terrorist who planted the bomb must be laughing his ass off. Anyway the bomb did not go off at blog time, or I am already so far away that I didn't hear it go off.

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the footage.


Onlookers