It was just a slight oversight. Really, it was.

Perhaps a particular news item in Monday’s Chicago Tribune will eventually end up under the heading of “Just Another Crazy Thing That Happened Up In Wisconsin,” but the public should take notice.

It concerned the use of a very real bomb in training bomb-sniffing dogs used by security at Milwaukee’s Mitchell Airport. It is routine while training the dogs that a package of plastic explosives is hidden somewhere in someone’s luggage while loading a plane for a scheduled passenger flight.

Well, airport security performed the exercise and the pooch found the plastic, so all is well and good, right? Wrong.

Somebody forgot to remove the bomb from its hiding place. Whoops. Somebody is going to find a surprise souvenir when they get home and unpack after that trip to the Bahamas.

“The problem lies with the fact that there was an oversight by one of the officers” in not removing the bomb, said police Lt. John Lagowski. Thank you, John. That’s very comforting.

The police said the bomb shouldn’t explode unless it comes in contact with detonating caps, but the thought of somebody taking the thing out of their suitcase, and because they don’t know what it is, tossing it around like a beanbag or perhaps dropping a cigarette close to it, is not a pretty one.