They sent us up the bomb

So the campus is currently swarming with officers of the law due to the discovery of a "cylindrical object". Inside scoop from this blog is that said cylindrical object is located near the Westpac money machine by the registry, and was inspected by our adminstrator here (Bill, ex-career army, Vietnam veteran, UN Attache to Korea, Director of New Zealand Military Intelligence) who decided it looked like a rolled up newspaper, but also a great deal like a pipe bomb. The bomb squad is currently on the way from Burnham, we are led to believe. Life: just like last night's episode of CSI. Apparently.

Meanwhile we sit in the Maths building with its (non-metaphorical) glass ceiling. Hmmm. I have been put on standby as fire hose operator. Addtional hmmmm. However it would have to be a pretty sodding big pipe bomb to damage this building from the Registry. I assume.

In other totally unrelated news, the Episode 3 trailer is fantastic. Oh yes.

More (will the campus explode?) news as it comes to hand! (I love writing that).

UPDATE: Got a pretty good look at the Army's bomb robot, which looks like it spends its off days doing lunar exploration. It was doing its thing about 50 metres away from the Maths Building door (which is not far away. I have to admit I made sure most of my body was behind a concrete post while I was looking) Word via the uni call centre via the 'command post' established on campus is that apparently the Army retrieved the object with their lunar rover and attempted to bust it open with some fancy water concussion device, but this has failed as whatever the 'device' is is too well constructed. So now they are contacting Wellington for permission to blow it up where it is - at which point we will probably be forced to run away, and the people who just paid for the repaving of the brand new university courtyard will probably start crying...

More as it comes to hand!

UPDATE, 2:37pm : It seems they have decided that all is OK without further attempts to detonate the thing, as the all clear has been given. Perhaps they had Private Jones jump up and down a few times on the device and nothing resulted. Police cordons are still in place however, presumably for evidence gathering purposes or something. But crisis is apparently averted.

UPDATE: 'Bomb' was an aluminium tube stuffed and wrapped in paper (hence not getting blown open with concussion thingy, I suppose). Police unimpressed, I should imagine. They're refusing to tell anyone if they got phone calls or not. Bad news for practical joker if he or she should get caught I would think.

Excitement over. We now return this blog (briefly) to its regular lack of activity.