‘Okay rookie, here’s the last room in the station.’
The sergeant opens the door to an unreasonably large room that held, from wall to wall, hundreds of bombs of various types.
‘Good lord.’
‘This is where we keep all the bombs that were one second away from detonating.’
‘Oh wow. I’m amazed by the frequency of that very specific occurrence. Why hasn’t anyone diffused them?’
‘The bomb squad reckons they would all need turning back on and at least eight seconds to diffuse them.’
‘Why keep them all in one place?’
‘Well if they’re gonna go, they’re gonna go. May as well blow up one station rather than many.’
‘Right.’
‘By the way, I wouldn’t lean on that if I were you.’
Paddy Dobson
31st May 2023