Not sure about news but not hearing an explosion is a good thing.
I'm sure of that last one. :)

Well, it seems that my "Top Secret!" reference is indeed the case.

Innocent person executed by twitchy police on subway platform. Terrorists win again.

Don't tug on Superman's cape.
Don't spit into the wind.
And don't fuck around with London's Bobbies
when they're on high alert. :eyebrow:

gotta ask. i don't feel like reading everything at that site. is that a real product or is it a gagsite?

It's real.

$160?! I'd even buy some, as humorous gifts for specific members of my family, but not at that price.

They're only $145 if you buy two or more ...

From the same site as the one selling those key chain thingies:

You do not want to get stuck and/or become a refugee being herded along with panicked masses. If evacuation is truly a viable option, do not wait - GO NOW!

Just when I finally thought I'd put the 50's behind me... :mg:

I just got back from a vacation to Maine. Driving up and back from DC, I saw probably 40 electronic traffic signs in various states asking me to report suspicious activity to Big Brother. The first one or two made me think. The next 38 just creeped me the Hell out. Fucking facists.

Seriously, what average person would really need one of those.. If I hear a big explosion in the city I work in, I'm getting the hell away. Not stopping to check if the radiation levels are low enough for me to stay in the flippin office :rolleyes:

Holy crap, I'm with you on that one. Makes me want to take those signs out with a shotgun, and I don't even like guns. :rar:
- Pie

You probably won't hear the dirty bomb. :eek:

it'd have to have a fair amount of explosives in it to get the radiation to spread as far as possible

Probably not, actually.

The "dirty bomb" scenario is the one that is most likely to cause chaos, havoc, and panic, the terriorism trifecta.

Very small amounts of radioactive material, gathered from much more easily acquirable sources can result in large scale disruption of everyday life.

If I was at all good at keeping track of my training manuals, I could go on at some length about accidental contaminations on which most of the scenarios are based.

See, this kinda shit goes down, I'm one of the people that's supposed to be running the wrong way. Sort of.

WMD is the current focus in disaster mental health response. Most of the folks that I have met at these trainings have taken it to get a day out of the office. I don't actually expect to see them out on a disaster ground in a hazard orange vest.

I know that I've posted this before, but if you want to have a better idea of what a dirty bomb attack is like, rent this movie. It may come back around on HBO.