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last modified: Thursday, February 01, 2007 (3:50:51 AM)
Naturally, this would not blow over. When someone is embarrassed for mistaking a mooninite for a deadly terrorist plot, *someone* is going to have to pay -- and certainly not the idiot(s) who called the alarm.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_us/suspicious_devices
Yes, they're pressing charges.
Let's step back and look at this for a second... it's a light-up mooninite flicking people off. What kind of terrorist outside of Adam West's Batman goes through the effort of making such a deadly device so playful and colorful? This is more retarded than even the terrorist plots in the TV show "24".
The article includes a blustery moron deriding hoaxes as taxing the law enforcement infrastructure and the half-mil cost of getting said circus troupe to perform. To this I simply say, "lol."
The idea that your average American would know what makes a device suspicious is a dubious one at best. But law enforcement didn't see through this?
Hint! A bomb will not have a mooninite on it! It will not be ticking! It will not feature a intricate Rube Goldberg device attached to a crate marked "TNT" in block type. It WILL look like a trash can, a backpack, or a Nissan Sentra.
Hint! Terrorists are not interested in your Fort Knox, your Statue of Liberty, or your Grand Canyon. They probably cannot locate any of these on a map, much like most Americans have trouble finding the UK on a map. (No, that's Denmark. Try again.)
Hint! A terrorist will not look like a cartoon snake charmer! A terrorist will not look like a man who hasn't shaved or slept for days! A terrorist WILL look like a friendly, courteous, educated, and charming individual. The next deadly terrorist attack JUST MIGHT come from a single, white female beatnik undergrad from Oklahoma.
And I ask, do you know why? Because no one is expecting it. Because it's the path of least resistance. Because law enforcement -- particularly the gumshoe Boston PD -- is too busy looking for mooninites and arresting other people for their own incompetence.
I would also like to add that I am not a terrorist and have no desire to blow anything up. Please don't arrest me. You should be out looking for the real criminals, like Master Shake and Meatwad.