Posted on 02/01/2007 3:16:22 AM PST by billorites
If I remember right, here in town, there was only one initial panic as they put them in newspaper boxes. Do you remember that as well?
Episode? Hmmm... has somebody started a pool on when ATHF airs an episode parodying this incident.
Does anyone have pics of these things? From what I've read, they'd been up in the city for at least 2 weeks (not only in Boston but other big cities, too) and no one noticed how threatening they were til now? Just seems bizarre.
Scanning this first thing in the morning before coffee, I read "Menino" as another word beginning with "M" and often paired with "Outraged".
If they announced that they were fake devices and they really didn't appear to be real devices then they may get off.
But it was stupid.
Agreed. This cost the city a small fortune, and caused commuters a major inconvenience.
Just think of the carbon footprint of those traffic jams.
I've received quite a bit of training on how to identify improvised explosive devices, and not once did anyone mention "blinking lights." Perhaps you are confusing "training" with "Hollywood conditioning?"
Historically, terrorist bombs are concealed in everyday objects. Trucks were used in the attacks in OKC and NYC. The unabomber sent plain-looking packages. Iraqi insurgents use boxes, concrete, and dead animals. They typically aren't flat PCB boards with lights on them; they have to have some kind of mass to cause an explosion.
Countenancing the obvious fraud that these items could be mistaken for bombs just confuses the public and compounds an error. The boy who cried wolf shouldn't be in charge of the sheepdogs.
Gazooks! They *FEAR* a wonderful cartoon stunt. What they *should* fear is all the idiocy regarding homosexual marriage, and brain-washing school kids that perversion is healthy and normal.
Yeah, someone puts up a light bright, let's jail them and throw away the key.
If you took one look at that thing and thought it was a bomb, you and anyone else who thinks it was a bomb is a blithering idiot.
No one puts lights on a bomb, ever. In the movies it may blink or whatever but real bombs don't advertise.
Sounds to me like common sense is missing. The people involved in the gimmick should have cleared it with law enforcement first. If the participants in the gimmick called 9-11 to report suspicious packages, they should be held accountable. Perhaps they called because the were not getting enough attention. Advertising, like the stupid radio show where the woman died from drinking too much water are all over the place. They go too far for attention at times. Once the cops knew it was a hoax, they should have treated it less seriously without inconveniencing the citizens any more.
There were no bombs nor threats. They don't have anything to charge.
LOL
will the batteries be recycled or thrown into a landfill?
The fact that they were up for 2-3 weeks in several other cities, with no official overreaction, says a lot. What it says, does not reflect well upon Boston's crack police and overall "homeland security".Worth repeating!And now, they're all full of indignation and bluster, threatening prosecution, as a smokescreen for their own poor reaction.
"Kids call in bomb threats at schools and disrupt classes"
Who made threats?
Thanks for the picture. WHAT FLAMING IDIOTS to think these things were bombs!!! Real terrorists would never, ever, ever, make their bombs obvious and easy to find. ("Hey look here, I'm a bomb. Defuse me..") Good God, how can these people be so stupid?! But then again, these incredible stupid people vote in Kerry and Kennedy as their elected representatives.
There is a picture up on Drudge. Also, these devices were displayed in multiple locations in 10 cities. Only Boston panicked, weeks after they were first put up.
I can't overstate how incompetent and corrupt law enforcement is in Massachusetts.....the only state out of 50 that still has leo's as flagmen on construction sites and an FBI that protected mobsters for decades.
Why is it that no other city had any problem with these gimmick signs for the three weeks that they were up?
Don't worry. President Palmer will have them released in no time.
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