Boston Scare Caused By Marketing Mistake

WNBC Television ^ | 02/01/07 | Puppage

[MizSterious]

Did you see their "press conference"? Total jerks. I hope they rot the rest of their lives away in jail.

[Wormwood]

Did you see their "press conference"? Total jerks. I hope they rot the rest of their lives away in jail.

Are you even listening to yourself? You sound like a complete lunatic.

[MizSterious]

Ah, spoken by the person with his/her head in the sand.

[wizecrakker]

Did you see their "press conference"? Total jerks. I hope they rot the rest of their lives away in jail.

Why? Because paranoid public servants made fools of themselves?

No wonder they were mocking the process... it's highly mockable.

[MizSterious]

And gee, thinking these things might be explosive devices is almost as silly as...hmmm...flying airplanes into building? Or how about putting explosives into the soles of shoes? Or maybe it's as silly as thinking a pregnant woman might actually be wearing a bomb vest?

[Wormwood]

You stay in your bunker. The rest of us have lives to live.

[MizSterious]

And you, Wormwood, should of course go on your merry way thinking nothing can go wrong in your life...until that terrible moment when you have to pay the stupidity tax. Sometimes it's a real killer.

[Boston Blackie]

Did you see their "press conference"? Total jerks. I hope they rot the rest of their lives away in jail.

They could be sentenced up to 190 years if convicted of all 38 counts.....and one of them could face deportation.

[MaxFlint]

How do we know what they were? We have drug smugglers using children's dolls and teddy bears.

Using that argument should we bring a parent up on charges if his five year old son leaves a teddy bear in a park and the police send in the bomb squad?

The terrorists win if we live our lives in fear of doing anything that might be misinterpreted by the stupidest government official.

I for one will not be reporting every glowstick, firecracker, teddy bear or transformer robot I see left on a bench to the Department of Homeland Security.

They have much more serious things to worry about.

[from occupied ga]

For all of those who thought that the Boston "authorities" weren't total laughing stocks I have a present for you:
present

[Wormwood]

You called for life imprisonment for what is *at best* a misdemeanor offense (or was it because they're "jerks". I forget)

Madam, you are hysterical. Perhaps a you should take a nice nap.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Three weeks to notice a marketing campaign?

No, three weeks for someone to come along who can look at a marketing campaign piece that looks nothing like a bomb, decide it looks like a bomb, and call the police.

[Wormwood]

They could be sentenced up to 190 years if convicted of all 38 counts.....and one of them could face deportation.

Proof that the terrorists have finally won.

[wizecrakker]

Or maybe it's as silly as thinking a pregnant woman might actually be wearing a bomb vest?

So any pregnant woman walking around in public is obviously committing a bomb scare?

[wizecrakker]

They could be sentenced up to 190 years if convicted of all 38 counts.....and one of them could face deportation.

Ridiculous. The people that should be facing 190 years are the politicos that got fat on big dig dough.

[Caesar Soze]

And gee, thinking these things might be explosive devices is almost as silly as...hmmm...flying airplanes into building? Or how about putting explosives into the soles of shoes? Or maybe it's as silly as thinking a pregnant woman might actually be wearing a bomb vest?

No, it's much, much sillier. Airplanes, flown into buildings, are potent weapons. A long history of aviation accidents, terrorist plans, and terrorist attacks proves this. Bomb vests are potent weapons. A long history of terrorist attacks proves this. In a confined area, even a shoe bomb may be a potent weapon. Reasoning about the effect of small explosives in airborne planes proves this. These tiny devices, in their context, could not have been potent weapons. Not unless you throw out all experience and reasoning, and operate on fantasy alone.

[CutePuppy]

Exactly. It's interesting that they were in all these cities, and yet only in John F. Kerry's "terrorism = nuisance" city they got worried about possible terrorist act.

BTW, I wouldn't underestimate this to capture attention of jihadists - they've been trying to "immunize" us (like recent "airplane imams" trial run) from paying attention to this kind of stuff.

[Boston Blackie]

Unfortunately, they have violated several city and state laws.

[Smogger]

Unfortunately, they have violated several city and state laws.

Uh, like what? "POST NO BILLS?"

An infraction, like littering, at the most.

[Boston Blackie]

That is another topic ..... but 190 years each for the big dig politicos is much too lenient.