This has been bruising my mind since I first heard about this.

Woodburn, Oregon, is a small town where about the most exciting thing that happens every year is tulip blooming time- there are miles of fields cloaked in vivid color and hundreds of Oregonians go there to pick up the bulbs for their own future gardens. I don't know what its crime rate is but since it is never in the news it can't be high.

The town is close to Gervais, Hubbard and Monitor, other small towns no one here has ever heard of.

Woodburn is not far from my hometown, in fact, I have frequently accompanied one brother or another to the animal sales auction barn. Woodburn is surrounded by farms, the highway's most common traffic is farm tractors and hay wagons.

So. A guy plants a bomb outside a Woodburn bank (it appears that a dud or fake was placed outside another bank) and a call is made to the police.

The police and a nomb disposal expert show up, look at the bomb and take the bloody thing indoors. Why? Someone here must have some kind of idea of why.

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