At 1.30 in the afternoon on Tuesday last week, two women saw a bomb-shaped black object below the rear wheel of a black car in the parking lot on the west side of the Kaohsiung City Government’s Siwei Administration Center. If the car had moved forward, it would have squashed the object. The women hurriedly reported the matter to the building’s security staff. Security guards then turned up to investigate, accompanied by officers from the Kaohsiung City Police Department’s Public Safety Brigade. Not daring to touch the object, they first placed a traffic cone in front of it and then contacted the Police Department’s Linya Precinct, which also dispatched officers to the scene.
At about 1.45, the car’s owner appeared. When he saw a reporter taking photos, he went over to see what was going on. The man said that the object was a tool called a rocket air blower that he used to clean dust off his scanner; it had all been a big fuss over nothing.
The car’s owner said he was a commercial supplier to the city government and had gone there at 11 in the morning to discuss some business, parking his car downstairs by the west side of the building. He said that perhaps the rocket air blower had accidentally fallen out when he opened the rear door of the car. He then picked the object up and proved that it was a dust blower by pointing it at his scanner and squeezing it to blow the dust away.
Photo: Hung Ting-hung, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者洪定宏
(Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)
上週二午後約一點半，二名女子在高市府四維行政中心西側停車場看到一輛黑色轎車後輪下，有一個炸彈形狀的黑色物體，若往前移動就會壓到，趕緊向保全反映，保全會同高雄市政府警察局保安警察大隊員警查看，不敢擅動，先用圓錐柱擋著，通報苓雅分局員警到場。
約一點四十五分，車主出現，看到記者拍照，上前查看，才說那是他用來清除掃描器灰塵的工具「火箭式吹塵球」，虛驚一場。
車主表示，他是市府廠商，上午十一點多前去洽公，將轎車停在西側樓梯下，可能打開後車門時，「火箭式吹塵球」不慎掉落，他拿起後，還對著掃描器按壓吹氣，證實為吹塵球。
（自由時報記者洪定宏）
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