polar bear bomb scare

Yesterday as I walked to work, I stumbled across one of those things that makes me smile and glad I live in a city, where madcap things happen. Someone had created a homeless polar bear, and he was rummaging through a trashcan. I smiled, a couple of high school girls screamed, which made me smile more, and then I got on my train and, in all honesty, forgot about it. Until later, when I stopped by the pub after softball. It turns out that my polar bear friend freaked some folks out. Later in the morning they called the cops, and the "unknown" nature of a mannequin dressed as a polar bear looking through a trashcan caused the bomb squad to be shut down. People were moved off the street, the Metro entrance was closed - you could still get on the Metro, but you had to cross the street - and the police dismantled the bear. Seriously. There's a story about it in the local paper. It seems like a slight over reaction.