[DB]

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doD_VpT_yAY

Professionals that are supposed to know better should have been easily able to identify that these "devices" weren't a threat. Everything was out in the open - there wasn't some enclosed case that could have contained a substantial amount of explosives. They're thin and their inner workings are clearly visible. It was obvious they were cheap electronic signs.

[Miss Marple]

OK, I will concede that these do not look like bombs. However, when they are unlit (during daytime) wouldn't it be a little difficult to see what the figure is to represent, and also anything electronic, even something that doesn't have room for explosives, would cause some suspicion. The explosives could be somewhere else, you know.

[TalonDJ]

Professionals that are supposed to know better should have been easily able to identify that these "devices" weren't a threat. Everything was out in the open - there wasn't some enclosed case that could have contained a substantial amount of explosives. They're thin and their inner workings are clearly visible. It was obvious they were cheap electronic signs.

You are totally wrong on this. Do have any idea how big a boom a 1 inch deep, 1 foot square mass of plastic explosives would make?

This could easily have been some type of terror plot.

[stevio]

That..... was the threat????

[L98Fiero]

Man, don't you understand we are living in a post 9-11 world?

That means governments gets to freak out over nothing, make themselves look like idiots, then arrest those who did little more than post bills on a light post? This is vengance on the part of the authorities for being shown their own ignorance.

With the full support of a bunch of "limited governemnt" "consertvatives". FR is quickly becoming a joke.