I know what you must be going through Lilith and Mr. Lilith! My husband works with explosives everyday and is currently taking tests to upgrade his engineering status. Because of the "assholes" who need the attention of the bomb threats and because of all the "assholes" who want to bomb buildings and such......these tests are now harder than ever for the men and women who need to have certain degrees and experience to handle explosives! The ATF and the DEP have even went so far as to have explosives companies review the past arrest records of it's employees and if there is one single arrestable crime at anytime in their lives...that employee is let go.....even if it was something as simple as trespassing. This may not sound too harsh.....but not many ppl have completely clean records throughout a lifetime! Even my hubbies boss had a trespassing charge when he was 17......but luckily he was never actually arrested for it. I can see where the need to crack down fits in (in these sad times), but I think that the caution is misplaced! The bomb threat callers......the parties interested in pipe bombs on the net.....the companies that keep no records or are lousy record keepers...etc. etc. etc.........are being passed over for legitimate companies with self regulating procedures that are above board! I guess they just don't know how to stop the actual threats and so they have to make themselves feel better by doing something.....anything.....to show that they are on top of things.

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