Just threaten 'em.
"Go to bed now or I'm calling the bomb squad and they're gonna blow up your toys!"
Posted on 09/12/2010 9:46:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There's deputies in Orange County who will never, ever live this down
Does Homeland Security's terror alert system have a Code Glue?
Orange County sure does.
Charred pavement and bits of plastic are all that remains of a stuffed toy pony found in a culdesac outside an elementary school there after it was blown to bits by a very, very serious bomb squad.
The pony, posthumously identified as a Hasbro "FurReal" toy, was examined by a robot as a possible explosive device while students inside Waterbridge Elementary were placed under a "modified lockdown" and no one was aloud to enter or leave.
In video captured by local news outlets, the robot placed explosives alongside the toy and rolled away as they were detonated, blowing some poor kid's special friend to bits.
Parent at the school noticed the abandoned pony when dropping off children that morning, but found nothing sinister about the toy said to provide "realistic, nurturing animal experiences."
"When I saw it this morning, I thought it was funny," said mom Shanie Lucas, who assumed it had been placed in the street to prevent double parking. "The kids were laughing, the adults were smiling."
But a short time later, someone reported it to deputies, and parents received a text alert about a possible explosive device.
"I was scared at first," parent Heather Mazza told the Orlando Sentinel, "but then when I saw the news, I was like, 'A pony? What?'"
An Orange County Sheriff's spokesman later reported the pony was declared "non-threatening."
Our bomb squad found a suspicious packege left on the side of the road straddling the border of CA and OR. They blew it up to discover that it contained someone’s cremains.
Pony has her own memorial website.
http://www.innocentpony.com/innocentPony/
Just threaten 'em.
"Go to bed now or I'm calling the bomb squad and they're gonna blow up your toys!"
When I was in the Navy, the bomb squad was called in on a suspicious package at Sasebo. After a controlled detonation, the resulting debris was examined and the contents of the package was determined to be one dead cat (felis cattus mortis).
A 102nd use for a dead cat.
Stuffed ponies should be asking themselves, “Why do they hate us?”
Did the cat die before or after this skilled military operation?
That was never precisely determined due to the enthusiastic use of C4 for the “controlled” detonation, but it was believed that the cat’s demise had preceded the incident.
There may be moderate ponies, but there is no moderate Ponislam.
That was a moderate pony. You saw what happened to her. Blown to pieces just because she was a moderate.
That's what happens when you put a bunch of overgrown boys in charge of whether to blow up things. (Not that I'd do any differently)
To show that there is no favoritism, they should blow up a Care Bear and a couple of smurfs.
maybe it was a wannabe unicorn
Answer number two is to shoot at it to see if it will blow up.
I am *so* behind that.
See my tagline...
Thank God that in America we have the technology to overreact to a lost toy “outside and elementary school” and blow it to smithereens.
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