Posted on 02/01/2007 3:16:22 AM PST by billorites
I think we got some tokers on this thread...
Chicago police have been picking up these things for a couple of days. Somehow there was no hysteria or panics. Boston needs to grow a pair. It may be too "smart" for its own good.
Must be from the Libertarian wing of FReeperdom...
Not at all. It's amazing how everyone just follows the media account of this like it is doctrine. They are not "devices", they are lighted signs, and they were not placed with the intention or knowledge that they create a bomb scare. People need to look at the signs and use common sense on this one.
We'll see if you're singing the same tune if you are ever the one gettin arrested for accidentally leaving your briefcase on a park bench, or forgetting to discard a 3.5 oz. bottle of shampoo in your luggage before you walk through airport security.
Not hours. They had been in place for weeks.
Everyone who disagrees with you is a toker and you two are God's wisest of men. Is that it?
You're just sore for being laughingstocks (a status that is well-earned, btw).
What does that have to do with your assertion that they were intended to draw out the bomb squads and shut down Boston? Especially when all the police needed to do was perform a little police work (you know, a phone call or two) to discover what they were and who placed them...and then have THEM remove them. Instead what we saw was panic and chaos created by city officials who APPARENTLY did no investigative work whatsoever. And now those officials want to CTAs (having been exposed as total boobs) by transferring the blame to the cartoon network.
Meantime, I'm still trying to figure out the logic of a terrorist who would go around at night in plain view with cameras rolling placing neon lit bombs. "Hey you there, look at me, I'm a neon lit bomb, call the authorities."
It was a advertising gimmick; the expense and inconvenience came when the authorities panicked.
30 posted on 02/01/2007 4:04:53 AM PST by Grut
What they are going to hang the guys for is making them look bad.
C'mon...grow up. Next time I need a viewpoint from the backwards-baseball cap community... I'll keep you in mind.
Dittos. That's exactly right. They are quite obviously not intended in any way to look like explosive devices. It's not my fault if somebody tells the police what I have in my possession might look like a bomb to him or her.
Now if these guys were responsible for the 911 calls, that's a different story.
Don't drop your iPod, you'll be in jail for life!
Menino's an A-Hole.
You ran out of useful things to say on this topic about 100 posts ago. Now you just point at anyone who disagrees with you and shout names.
THAT is why you are a laughingstock.
>Yeah... when MacDonalds gives you your HappyMeal with polonium-210 in it... you should laugh it off.<
Gee, that's an appropriate comparison. (Eyes rolling)
Agreed.
I read the reports Russia was publishing about our initial blitzkrieg into Iraq. It was utter and total fantasy b.s. They were reporting tank loses into the 100s!!! Can't remember if their casuality projects from the first push was over 3000, but I'll wager anything that it was.
I just remember reading the section on tanks destroyed and realized right there they were flat-out making up stuff to support their fantasy expectation of what they (and our media for that matter) thought would be the outcome.
Ivan your hardware is crap, and both Gulf wars proved it.
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