“Stand back! He’s wearing a suicide diaper!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The crowd scattered, leaving the man stood there alone in the square. He looked around despondently and held his hands out to the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I changed my mind,” he said, “I don’t want to die.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The armed police shouted at him to keep his distance, kneel down, obey them or they’d kill him in a hail of bullets. One brave woman approached him, full protection showing her role as bomb disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Is it booby trapped?” she asked, staying a few yards away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I don’t know,” replied the man, his massive diaper visible to all, “Please, hurry, I don’t want an explosion in my diaper.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bomb disposal lady gave him an incredulous look, then pointedly sniffed at the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Seems to me you already have.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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