Not sure exactly when it happened but when Times Square shut down on Friday because some kid left a book bag behind. I was traveling but there was brief talk of evacuating our office building like a number of other ones in the area. I know we are conditioned to say-something if we see-something but I don't think I have the energy to call in every suspicious looking or person I see walking around NYC. Now I am glad other people like that I Love NY shirt guy had the wherewithal to bring a smoking Nissan Pathfinder to the attention of the authorities but it would have to be at least that obvious for me to call it in.. I am more likely to alert an MTA cop of some stinky homeless guy than an NYPD cop of a random cardboard box in Union Square.
I also believe that this will lead to a Kitty Genovese situation where everybody starts to expect somebody else to do something about it but I don't think we have the stomach to deal with these threats which seem to come more often all the time.
I was at the airport Friday as they announced the threat-level at Orange which made almost no impression on me at all, they may as well have told me that there was traffic on the interstate.
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