When the department store exploded, fine home furnishings, clocks, toys and various fruits and shoes came raining down like a merchandise monsoon. Most of them landed harmlessly in the parking lot.

The people, however, did not fare so well. Most of them were dead from the initial blast, but those who weren't landed with a meaty thud, skulls fracturing like the pineapples that were also cast through the air.

It was one of the worst department store explosions of the decade, though strangely, not the very worst--that one came about three months prior, when the detonation occurred near the hardware department, launching sharp tools and heavy blunt objects in every direction at devastating speed.

The FBI was still collecting evidence and combing the area for clues, when one agent, coming back from taking a leak in some bushes near the back of the parking lot, stumbled upon a note tucked into a teddy bear.

The note simply read, "Double my coupons next time."