Honestly the police and bomb squad did not do what they're supposed to do. Go to the location, yes, cordon off the area, yes, but at some point they need to do a sanity check and realize that something the size of 4 D batteries isn't going to blow up much of anything, especially not a steel bridge, that bomb-makers don't make their bombs obvious and decoratory, and that the 2nd, 3rd, and 38th device with the same picture and same design are probably just as harmless as the 1st.

Bombs are serious business, but these are supposed to be experts, and police need to look not only at the worst case scenario, but also look at the most reasonable one before spending $750,000 dollars and paralyzing the city. People are expected to be paranoid idiots, the police are supposed to be the ones who interject some reason and control into the process.