I read in the news that on Tuesday morning — the exact hour 8.35 am (0635 GMT) — a bomb blew up at the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona.

The event in itself could hardly surprise me — with all the madness going on in the world these days. The element that attained my attention was the object that contained the bomb: an apparently inoffensive coffee maker, placed at the main entrance of the building.

I've heard of bombs placed on boards of cars, hidden in bags, or underneath the clothes of some lunatic kamikaze, but never of bombs to populate coffee devices. If it is true what the police speculated and the package was indeed planted by Italian anarchist groups that operate in the area, I think then it is true when they say that all thugs have their loving mother; and, all Italian anarchists have their own coffee maker to serve them a good blast.

It's a good thing though they didn't use a Murano bead or a Raffaello candy — objects that would have been much more difficult to suspect of bomb carrying. I hope I don't give any ideas.

I was glad to read further the incidend had no human victims — except for the slightly wounded policemen who was investigating the device. I felt sorry for the sniffer dog killed in the explosion; it was only doing its job.

For the future, I strongly advice: keep away from suspect household devices like that bad coffee maker. Choose the mad coffee maker instead. It doesn't blow up in your face. For the most, it would blow your taste.