Terror?

Just got back from taking Gil on his morning constitutional, but it wasn't the usual route!
The end of our street and indeed, the main street of our little town is cordoned off by our police and also cops from the surrounding towns. I blundered right onto the main street and was stopped and told to return home by an alternate route. The first cops that talked to me would not reveal what was going on, but at last I was able to find out. A suspicious package has been found in the little parking area at the end of my street! Will keep you updated as events unfold……
A couple of hours later the police cars all left the scene and there was no evidence of anything having blown up. The only person I've talked to about it was Steve who runs one of the shops and he didn't know what, if anything, was found inside the box. Apparently it wasn't a bomb. So we're all safe here………so far.
In the end, it turned out to be a backpack with some gatorade in it, sitting behind a bush. Seems a guy came and put it behind a bush for some runners who were coming through. He later called the police station and apologized once he found out about the brouhaha that he created. He was told to tell the cops the next time he was going to do something like that. It was some alert citizen who called the cops in the first place. Its our motto here in the New York/New Jersey area: See Something-Say Something.