It has been a tense — and slightly absurd — fortnight for the city police, as pranksters have been flooding the inboxes of VIPs, celebrities, and even the Director-General of Police (DGP) with bomb threat emails.The Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) has been rushing from one posh address to another, playing an uninvited game of hide-and-seek with bombs that were never there.Frequent targetAmong the many recipients, actor and comedian S.Ve. Shekher appears to have received the highest number of threats. In just two weeks, he was sent 43 emails from fictitious senders claiming that RDX bombs had been planted at his Mandaveli residence. The messages triggered panic among his family, prompting the police and BDDS team — with full gear and a sniffer dog — to conduct repeated searches.Laughing off the bizarre experience, Mr. Shekher said: “I think I hold the record for receiving the most bomb threat mails in the city. I don’t know what provoked these pranksters to target me. The mails are abusive too. On one day, I received seven emails, and the police were here till midnight. Now, the BDDS team visit us so often that it has almost become part of our family.”Last Friday, a mail sent around 4:10 a.m. to the Tamil Nadu DGP’s office claimed that five RDX bombs had been planted at the Chief Minister’s residence on Chittaranjan Road in Teynampet. The BDDS immediately searched the premises but found nothing suspicious. A night earlier, similar mails were sent to the DGP’s official mail ID, claiming that explosives were placed at the Raj Bhavan in Guindy, the BJP office in T. Nagar, and actor Trisha’s residence in Teynampet.The pranksters did not stop there. On another day, DMK MP Kanimozhi’s residence and several other key locations were targeted. The long list of threatened sites included auditor Gurumurthy’s home in Mylapore, former Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan’s residence in Raja Annamalai Puram, Narada Gana Sabha in Alwarpet, Periyar Thidal in Vepery, the ISKCON temple on East Coast Road, The Hindu office on Anna Salai, actor-dancer Swarnamalya’s residence, and even foreign consulates in the city.