Today's #flashfiction #SpyBombDiffusingClass

“No, I am Spartacus!”

What's My Line?* #quote

       Today I decided that Bowser from the Super Mario Brothers video games would be scary in real life because he could take down a grizzly bear. And anything that can take down a grizzly bear is scary.

Spy Bomb Diffusing Class

        Now listen up spies, people say it's always the red wire that you cut on a bomb to stop it. If spies followed this advice many of them would be dead. It's not always the red wire. Sometimes it's the blue wire. Sometimes there aren't any wires. So spies let's take a short bomb diffusing lesson from a sample scenario.

        So let's say you're hanging over a pit of robot sharks in acid. A standard trap in many a supervillain lair and something you will probably run into in your spy career. You're being lowered into the deathtrap slowly by rope while the villain taunts you. Meanwhile the villain has set off nuclear bomb to go critical after your death. He plans to escape after seeing your demise to the deathtrap personally. He is in front of the nuclear bomb which is a massive ball with all its wiring exposed for the convenience of this lesson. What do you do?

       The first part of the answer is to escape the death trap by dramatically swinging with the rope so that you're outside the tank when lowered and only the rope once above you will lower into the tank burning and therefore releasing you.

        However if you thought that the second part of the answer was to go after the exposed wiring you're wrong. You should actually go after the supervillain and beat up him up until he tells you how to turn it off, or otherwise just unplug it or something. Just turning it off is better than causing a meltdown by pulling out its wiring.

       So that's your first bomb lesson future spies. Remember it's not always the red wire! Except when it is.