Not Quite Right

It’s been getting pretty noisy in town lately.  We plan to go out to advise at the Ministry and then the roads go “black”, meaning certain routes (typically mine) are rated no-go for the time being.  The run is scrapped for the day, so we get out of our gear and tend to mindless taskers, email or arguing about stuff.   The threat for us is car bombs.  Today I called it right.  The roads weren’t Black yet, but the feedback I got from the locals was that folks weren’t on the roads, so I cancelled our movement.  An hour or so later we learned that a determined bad guy had detonated his explosives laden car.  Somewhat fortunately the explosive totaled the car, but wasn’t enough to kill him.  So he, festooned with his own explosive vest, went running down the street where he then just laid down in the intersection.  We didn’t hear what the locals did to “disarm” him, but suspect is was pretty creative.  We were kept from doing the Nation’s bidding to help build this country by some fool who couldn’t even blow himself up.