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I lOVE the brave police/FBI training their guns on him so he would die alone while begging for help.

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And how were they supposed to know whether or not he was telling the truth? I would have assumed that it was a setup to kill a lot of policemen. (And maybe it was.) What would you have done in their place?

People seem to be only considering the safety of the police. If that were the only consideration then the nay-sayers would have a point. But if the cops had gone about screwing around with the bomb they would have been putting the guy at greater risk than they would by just waiting for the bomb squad to show up.

Unfortunately the bomb squad didn't get there in time. Maybe that's because of negligence on their part. But it's more likely that there just wasn't enough time to work their way through the traffic. We know the bomb exploded 45 minutes after the robbery. The deliveryman was cuffed sometime after that and only then did it become known he had a bomb. So the response time would have had to be less than 45 minutes, which isn't a terribly unusual response number.