What kind of a father is this?

 

Ron Cuff of Heath thinks people are a little paranoid. He thinks we need to create a Department of Chicken Little. What has his feathers in a fluff?

 

The ridiculous action of the authorities on college campuses who insist on evacuating the facilities and searching when a bomb threat has been received. Ron says, "No bomb has ever been found, to my knowledge, for any of these threats." That reminds me of a councilman we had many years ago. When the city staff recommended installing a tornado warning system, he considered it a waste of money, saying, "We've never had a tornado before." It was only about a year later that a tornado wiped out a large portion of the city, killed approximately 10 people, and injured dozens of others.

 

I assume Ron has no children in college. What kind of a father would not want his child evacuated from a building that has been threatened? Maybe no bomb has been found before, but would a loving father really take the chance that no bomb will ever be found? I can assure you that if my child called me and said that his college had received a bomb threat, and they were going to ignore it, I'd tell him to get his fanny off the campus - pronto!

 

I might be wrong, but if I were a betting woman, I'd bet a week's wage that old Ron would be the first one yelling about the authorities doing nothing if the campus did blow up!

 

"Stop playing up bomb threats." The Dallas Morning News; October 26, 2012; p. 26A.