[Nepeta]

Malls are very soft targets.

And they are not places to be if the lights go out or something begins to smoke. The big, two-level ones have limited access between floors. If you are in one of these cavernous constructions, what do you do and where do you go for rapid egress if the lights go out and you smell smoke??? And several hundred people are trying to figure out the same puzzle, some of them panicking???

The merchants want people to stay and spend, but the exits aren't always obvious.

[caww]

I’ve been thru the mall drills for fire etc...and also thru a bomb alert. Let me tell you I will not be going to their designated areas...not by a long shot!

WI walked into my shift at work and asked what was going on...they said there was a bomb threat and dogs were going from store to store. I then said...Well why is everyine still in the building? The response was “we haven’t been dismissed yet”.

Let me tell you..I turned and went for the door..got in my car and drove away...told them going out I’d be home and call when the coast was clear.

I understood later that they had said anyone who wanted to leave was free to do...but most stood outside in the parking lot, and way too close to the building.