OMG, Bombs!

There's a junior high school on the next block.

For a while on Thursday morning, you couldn't get there from here.

Crime scene tape blocked nearby intersections. A police motorcycle with lights flashing was parked outside my apartment's driveway. Its rider directed exiting traffic to turn away from the tape, and then ducked behind the edge of the adjoining building... For cover.

A loud report echoed through the surrounding neighborhood. Residents who came out to their balcony were cautioned to retreat inside by a second officer, with a handheld megaphone, stopping traffic at the opposite end of the block.

About 15 minutes later there was a second boom of equal strength. And the prairie dogs came out of their burrows once again to catch a glimpse of a firefighter crossing the street by the school and the radio-controlled robot rolling back to its transport trailer.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's incident report read 2 suspicious packages destroyed on scene by controlled detonation... No known motive, no casualties or property damage.