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01-31-2007, 02:42 PM | #1 | |
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Boston Bomb Scare
Someone gets some circuit boards, solders some LEDs to them, attaches a battery and magnets and puts them around Boston in a bit of creative prank/graffiti fun.
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My, my, we're a twitchy and nervous lot these days. Last edited by Kitsune; 01-31-2007 at 03:07 PM. Reason: corrected "Ignignokt" |
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01-31-2007, 02:50 PM | #2 |
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Boston, eh?
It seems a bit banal for an MIT hack, but I suppose a freshman's gotta start somewhere...
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01-31-2007, 02:50 PM | #3 |
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01-31-2007, 03:00 PM | #4 |
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WTF? It's just an LED throwie on steroids.
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01-31-2007, 08:16 PM | #5 | |
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[soapbox] Don't be so quick to condemn the mayor and all the city agencies that responded to this. They're doing their job. They're doing what we want them to do for a change.... protect the public. They have to respond to any unknown with maximum caution. Just because they are within it's range and not watching on TV from a thousand miles away, dictates extreme caution. How do you know the next terrorist bomb won't have blinky LED cartoon characters on it? Once the bomb is placed, that would be a way to attract the maximum curious people close. So there's no reason to break their balls for doing their job the way they have scripted and rehearsed it. [/soapbox] As you were and thank you for your attention.
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01-31-2007, 09:05 PM | #6 | |
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The stupidity continues following an incident in which the city of Boston protected its citizens by detonating advertisements. A student that works for the advertising company has been arrested and charged with "placing a hoax device that results in panic".
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You don't need to plant an actual bomb to bring a city to a halt, scare the public, and cause economic damage. All you have to do is hang a motherboard from a telephone pole or duct tape a flashlight to a bridge girder. That's essentially what this boils down to, right? If the police see something and don't know what it is, the default conclusion is that it's a bomb set by terrorists. And even if the package is harmless, if you're the person that left it, your ass is going to pay for causing panic. Note to self: don't ever accidentally leave lunch box in the park, again. I never thought the law enforcement organizations that protect our communities would be reduced to these types of unrealistic, excessive reactions. This is fucking ridiculous. |
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02-01-2007, 04:19 AM | #7 | |
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Muslim terrorists aren't the only ones that build bombs. Oklahoma City? If anyone would care to volunteer to check out suspicious packages, there's lots of openings, just contact the police.
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02-01-2007, 11:08 AM | #8 | |
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Once again, you display the wisdom and calmness for which you are known. You're right on target. The public agencies *are* expected to respond. We all agree on that. But I think I may not have made my point clear. I don't condemn the public safety officials for responding to the physical threat. I **do** condemn those officials who made statements about prosecuting people for what happened here. That is not right. This is no act of terrorism, I don’t care how freaked out somebody got. Somebody was suspicious, there was a call, there was a response and it turned out to be a big false alarm. I called 911 once and nobody had to go to the hospital after they came. I said I was sorry I overreacted, I was scared, I didn’t know what to do, so I called. The first responders, the fire truck full of firemen and the aid car full of emt/paramedics, said “No problem. You did what you were supposed to do.” And I didn’t get charged for the trip or the call, I didn’t get arrested and prosecuted for guessing wrong about the seriousness of the situation. We’re well past the panic phase of this event. It’s not an emergency anymore. There’s no need to respond with force, to speed through town lights and sirens blazing. There is no crime here, so why is there all this talk of prosecution? THAT’S what I’m chapped about. If it’s “the law”, then the law is w-r-o-n-g. If it’s a judgment call on the part of the prosecutor, then his judgment is wrong. It’s over, nothing to see here, move along people, as you were, etc, etc. Jail?! Why? Explain why this is an act of terrorism.
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02-01-2007, 11:12 AM | #9 |
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Isn't it time we changed the words to America the Beautiful?
"from every mountainside, let freedom - echo (asitrecedesintothedistance)."
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02-02-2007, 09:51 PM | #10 | |
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A while back I posted about a guy at work that has been a volunteer power boat inspector for the power squadron for years. Suddenly he's part of Homeland Security with a diploma looking certificate to hang on the wall. I think it's part of the Federal plan to keep terrorism/paranoia in everyones face. The Feds have also thrown a ton of money at the cities and states to develop contingency plans and rehearse repeatedly. I think Wolf has taken part in these rehearsals. The purpose is when the call comes, everybody knows what to do and does it fast. That's what happened in Boston, just like they rehearsed it. As far as shutting down major highways, one guy with a flat tire can do that, during rush hour. As far as Muslim terrorists not putting LEDs on bombs. After 9-11, all the bombs set off around the world were by recruited natives rather than Middle Eastern wackos. Anybody that thinks there aren't passport carrying US citizens that would join this cause are naive. Crazy Americans are likely to do anything.... even put LEDs on bombs. As much as their attempts to save face, I'm disturbed they felt they had to. They did what they were supposed to do, what they had trained to do and to be embarrassed they did that, is as ridiculous as their face saving nonsense. Of course being political, they're all trying to top each other by coming up with a bigger condemnation and end up making themselves look stupid.
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01-31-2007, 02:59 PM | #11 |
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Thank god it wasn't Mario blocks.
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01-31-2007, 03:24 PM | #12 |
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For what they look like up close, along with pictures of what they look like lit up, check here.
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01-31-2007, 03:27 PM | #13 |
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It's a fuckin' Lite-Brite.
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01-31-2007, 03:30 PM | #14 |
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Pretty fancy lite-bright. The boards look professionally printed.
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01-31-2007, 04:05 PM | #15 |
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Hopping around the coverage of this, I gotta say- who do "the officials" think is menacing our country? A Batman villain? Do they seriously think that a bomb is going to be covered with blinky lights in the form of a cartoon character?
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