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A bomb scare forced the evacuation of the Comal County Courthouse in Texas on Friday, August 15th.

A maintenance worker came across a suspicious package near a door in back of the courthouse records office at about 10 a.m., prompting deputies from the Comal County Sheriffs Office to order everyone out of the courthouse and its adjacent buildings so it could be inspected.

Turns out it was only some powdered milk taped up in a paper bag.

In this day and age, we treat everything like its real, said CCSO Deputy Chief Gregg Van De Loo, after employees in the courthouse, Commissioners Court and the Comal County Appraisal District had to leave their offices for about two hours.

We would rather inconvenience people than risk anyone being injured.

Carlos Munoz, 45, was arrested by the CCSO for reportedly leaving the package. He was charged with making a terroristic threat and taken to Comal County jail. His bond was set at $10,000 according to a release issued by CCSO. Officials did not give any potential motives for why the package might have been left at the courthouse.

After the maintenance worker alerted deputies, the CCSO called in the San Antonio Police Departments bomb squad to help inspect the package. Officers combed the area with a bomb-sniffing dog and yanked the package from about 100 yards away with a length of wire before determining there was no real danger. The powdered milk inside was the kind used to feed small livestock.

A final search of the area was conducted and employees were allowed to return to work.

We are just trying to keep the employees and the citizens out of harms way, said CCSO Lt. Mark Reynolds.

My next door neighbour, Clare, is what you would call a ‘big’ girl. She loves her fast food, chocolates, biscuits, crisps ….in fact just about anything that adds the pounds and kilos to her weight. And to make matters worse, she hardly ever walks anywhere but prefers to drive instead.

So it’s not surprising that about 3 months ago, she felt that her weight was getting out of control and she needed to do something about it.

Did she take up jogging? Or go down to our local gym? Nope - she decided to buy a Wii console!

She claimed that because the Wii had some new-fangled controls that didn’t just involve pressing buttons like other games consoles, but that actually required you to put in some effort to play games, then she’d lose weight.

Needless to say, her husband and I were not convinced and thought that this was just another one of Clare’s mad ideas (that she does have a reputation for coming out with!).

With her Wii console, she also got something called a Wii Fit that looked like one of those step blocks used in gyms for step aerobics. Clare said that this connected to the Wii console and came with a Keep Fit game that had her doing various exercises every day.

The software also kept a record of her weight, body-mass index and improvements in her performance of doing the exercise schedules.

Clare stuck to her new “exercise regime” and I would often pop round for a chat in the afternoon and find her red-faced and breathless from having just completed on of her sessions.

And the result?

Well, in the past month, she’s lost an impressive 14lbs (6.4 kilos for those of you who’ve gone metric) and it’s very noticeable. We are all impressed (even though she does keep saying “I told you so”). You can find the Wii Fit for sale on eBay at bargain prices. I’m definitely going to get one to get fitter and in shape.

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Not always true.

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