Posted on 12/07/2010 7:05:32 AM PST by Notary Sojac
Edited on 12/07/2010 7:07:07 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It’s a butterfly bomb and the Germans dropped thousands of them. Unsuspecting children would come across these hung up in trees or laying on the ground, thinking they had found a toy. In fact they had found a 2 kg anti-personnel cluster bomb...
100 yards? Did they think it was an atomic bomb?
It should be my choice if I'm to pass a toy robot glued to the road. Besides, just wack the thing with a .50 cal, and see what it does. Either way, the obstruction doesn't last as long.
Do you remember the panic caused the the LED sign that I seem to recall looked like Pokey-Man? Same big deal. There are more people who like to play than blow others to bits. I grew up when Americans had the balls to take life day-by-day without pissing in their pants over pranks.
I'd prefer to give my fellows the benifit of the doubt and leave the cowering to others. I trust my fellow Americans. The younger set seems to PC chickens.
Thanks for the explanation. I've never seen one before. I figured it to be some type of booby-trapped explosive, but wasn't sure of it.
Was there some indication that this was a geocache? I didn't see any references to geocaching in the story.
The base of a bridge is a very poor choice of placement if this was, indeed, a geocache. However, I've also seen the authorities call in the bomb-squad when the container found was clearly labeled as a geocache, and the highest value target in the area was a yucca plant or two.
My personal belief is that sometimes the authorities get bored. They've spent all kinds of taxpayer cash on their bomb-squads, swat-teams, and robots, and they will use every opportunity available to manufacture a justification for those expenses and keep the cash flowing.
When common sense should prevail, what does prevail more often is the mating-call of the nanny-state: "in the name of safety, we can't take any chances."
No, there WASN'T. I used it because I have had problems geocaching.
I had one cache in a parking area adjacent to a busway. The busway is on an overpass near the lot. I would have loved to place the cache there but for several reasons put it at the base of a utility pole in the lot.
Even so it was investigated and moved once before I could explain what it was.
Then they saw people searching workers in a landscape business nearby alerted the police.
The cache is still barely active. Lots of first timers like to go there for a quick find, but I can't maintain it so I'll pull it as soon as I can get there.
The log has been waterlogged and for some reason the picture I used as a background isn't there.
My bad...Shoud be ...Commuters and people in a nearby landscape business saw geocachers searching and alerted the police.
Oh, so they had to stay back temporarily for 100 yards. Wow, our freedoms are really under fire with this one. :::rolls eyes:::
It should be my choice if I'm to pass a toy robot glued to the road.
Oh for heaven's sake. This is the biggest stretch I've seen for someone claiming rights were being infringed.
I'd prefer to give my fellows the benifit of the doubt and leave the cowering to others.
Then give these guys the benefit of the doubt. They were responding to a call and behaved in accordance with the policies and rules they always operate under. Sure, they over-reacted, but it's only AFTER the fact we can say that. If it had been something bad, we wouldn't be saying it.
Personally, I think there are many FAR more blatant infringements on our freedoms than this to worry about. Can you say "naked scans and official gropings"?
You and I concur on that point. I'm just getting really grumpy, mainly because of that groping and viewing. I not happy with a lot of tyrannical crap going on these days. I think I'd prefer to just disban the whole government and start anew. ;-D
I'm with you there. Where's a George Washington, Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson when you need them?
I fear this is WE have failed. Its supposed to be us.
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