“And
when it was opened, there were three kittens inside.”
Ben Matthews, Wellston
Assistant Fire Chief
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| Photo by Thetejon (Creative Commons) |
Under
the cover of night a lone figure crept up to a darkened house in Wellston, Ohio
(population 5,663), slid a suspiciously duct-taped box onto the front porch and
ran. Neighbor Ruby Miller saw it all. “Could it be a terrorist?” she wondered,
and called police.
The
police, pondering their options from afar, decided to evacuate the block, call for
backup—more than two dozen police, sheriff, fire and EMT—and solicit the help
of the bomb squad and its bomb-extracting robot.
With
nerves on edge, the bomb squad watched its robot peel back the tape and open the box. The bomb squad peered
inside. What they found wasn’t a bomb but three mewing kittens. It’s
not clear who was more surprised, the kittens or the bomb squad, but it was a
kitten who made a mad dash for safety under the house. What had started out as a
bomb removal turned into a kitty retrieval and didn’t end until 3 am.
The
police don’t regret their reaction to the suspicious package and say they’d do
it again. Besides, says neighbor Donna Smith who took in the kittens, this
episode points to another big problem facing the city: no cat shelter.
Yes,
and just look at what that’s costing the taxpayers.
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