To recap: the caller claimed he planted explosives at three spots in the Nation Tower on Bang Na-Trat Road at 1.38pm. He threatened that the bombs would explode in three hours.

We didn't keep track to see whether the man's phone had destroyed itself the instant after it was hung up, a la "Mission Impossible".

The caller might have wished that The Nation staff would evacuate the building in panic. But sorry, we treated the threat as it deserved to be treated: a bad joke.

Editors rightly predicted that it was a hoax. First of all, the caller is a jerk. And secondly, if he wanted to destroy us, one editor said: "He wouldn't have warned us three hours in advance."

Point taken.

Anyway, Bang Na police station sent a bomb squad to search for the explosives as a maximum-security precaution. Cute sniffer dogs patrolled around to clear the place. Shops inside the building were forced to close.

At one point, a dog stopped to inspect some garbage only to find smelly leftover food from the New Year's party.

In fact, The Nation was not the only one to receive a bomb threat. It was reported that tens of places were threatened by similar phone calls. And the coward didn't even spare a school on Rajthevi Road.

Any person who enjoys the scene of young students gathering in panic in the schoolyard waiting for the police to clear their school must really have a serious mental disorder. Even the young students who have yet to pass Psychology 101 would know that that loser on the phone must have been bullied in school but never had the guts to fight.

Here comes another failure of the craven bombers: a caller who wished to see us flee in panic. But sorry, we continue to live our lives just fine.

We just feel that it's pathetic that you spend your life in hiding and never have a chance to live like a man.

jeerawat@nationgroup.com