[EggsAckley]

Just found this on Drudge, and couldn't find it here.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Ms. Stone should probably be put in charge of homeland security. The medical students should spend a night in the county jail.

[js1138]

We do have a thread for this, but this is a good summary. There are a lot of differences in details from other reports.

[Poohbah]

This is either a huge coincidence, or these guys were "pulsing the system," to use a phrase from the Bad Old Days of the Cold War. ("Pulsing the system" involved deliberate overflights of the other side's territory, solely for the purpose of getting the other side to switch on radars, lauch interceptors, et cetera. The plane performing the incursion would then proceed to record the incoming signals.)

[eno_]

They are so funny they should be sent to clown college in Turkey for some intensive humor seminars.

[hellinahandcart]

If it was a hoax, these boys are not smart enough to be doctors. Throw 'em in the clink for a while anyway, garnish their future wages for the cost of this investigation.

[Iwo Jima]

So much for the competence of the bomb-sniffing dogs.

[Joe Brower]

The money that these clowns cost all the good citizens in that area for lost time, wasted gasoline while waiting for the traffic jam they created to clear, etc., etc., should be calculated, and then these three bozos should be fined for that amount.

The money could then be donated to a veterans' relief fund or other such organization. These idiots can then spend the rest of the "medical careers" paying off the debt their indescretion has incurred and thinking about how lucky they were that worse did not happen to them.

[FR_addict]

This is NOT a hoax. Normal people do not go around joking about 9/11, changing license plates on cars, and having material in the cars that alert bomb-smelling dogs.

I am afraid that the bomb may have aleady bee dropped off at some site or was being carried to the site by another car.

Hopefully, the terrorist decide not to bomb since some of their compatriots have been detained.

[Argus]

Middle Eastern types making jokes about September 11 terrorism are about as funny as a big blonde Aryan laughing about Auschwitz in a synagogue. These clowns should get one-way tickets to Baghdad so they can try laughing as the bombs begin to fall.

[sheik yerbouty]

Why would they drive through a 75 cent toll?

[finnman69]

If it's a hoax, why is the road still closed?

[mewzilla]

I heard that the plates might be stolen. Has anyone heard anything about whether or not the car has the proper tags?

[EllaMinnow]

Well, well.

[hispanarepublicana]

There is a scene in Jurassic Park, where the dinos keep throwing themselves against the electric fence at their own expense to try to find the weak spots for other dinos. Something tells me all these "false alarms" this week are the same thing.

[cake_crumb]

"If this was a hoax, "

They had better be prosecuted. Terrorist threat hoaxes are now a federal offence. They probably won't be. Profiling, dont'cha know.

[OReilly]

This hoax aspect of the story was being talked about off-camera for about 2 and 1/2 hours. The change in tone was so obvious on several networks as the various anchors and Justice Department Reporters etc., started trying to cover their collective butts by saying that there are no suspects identified at the present time, etc.

Hysterical Media Syndrome augmented by a witness with "very good hearing... and imagination!

[Faith]

Eunice Stone did the right thing. If the three Middle Easterners aren't smart enough to keep their idea of sick humor to themselves, they can suffer the inconvenience of being detained for as long as necessary.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Federal sources involved in the investigation said they believe the three men - all U.S. citizens - were playing a stupid joke on another restaurant patron who gave them a suspicious look.

If it was a joke, they are indeed Darwin nominees.

[ibbryn]

Ok, just to have an opposing point-of-view, and without knowing any other details of their "hoax",
1) jokes in bad taste are not against the law
2) the cop dogs would alert on my car right now, just from the sent of old shotgun shells or whatever I had when I last went shooting
3) As citizens who have not committed a crime we are susposed to deny the cops unrestricted access to our persons and vehicles. That is not copping an attitude, this is protecting our rights.

Having said that, if these three yahoos really idenify more with Iran, Jordan and Syria than the country that feeds, houses and protects them, lock em up forever for blowing the toll booth. And the license tag should lead to a greatly expanded investigation of their families, friends, co-workers, etc.

[AdA$tra]

I just posted this in another similar thread:

I think a funny "joke" would have been to toss 'em on a helicopter to Gitmo and just stick them in a cell for a few days without even talking to them.