Darwin Award For Florida Terrorists?

Self | September 13, 2002 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

If it turns out to be true that the terror suspects are Middle Easterners who did have a bomb in their truck to carry out a terrorist activity in Florida, then they MUST be the Darwin Award winners of the year. Imagine the scene: They speak English in public to avoid suspicion and while speaking English they make definite reference to a terror activity they plan to carry out today. DUMB! Definite Grand Prize winners of the Darwin Award here.

[PJ-Comix]

This Darwin Award presentation still hinges on whether these suspects are indeed terrorists. If true, then they must be the most clueless people on the planet.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

On the other hand, these guys could be decoys whose job was to draw every FBI/LEO from three states to Alligator Alley so the real operation could take place somewhere else without interference.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

This could be an attempt to shift attention.

Let's be vigilant everywhere!!

[RossA]

Please, remember the rules. The first requirement for the award is to remove your genes from the gene pool. Stupidity is only the second requirement. Has the first requirement been met?

[PJ-Comix]

This could be an attempt to shift attention.

Don't discount the possibility that the suspects are really that stupid. However, it is interesting that today is Friday the 13th. Perhaps the terrorists want to play upon that superstition (not so superstitious when you consider Apollo 13).

[PJ-Comix]

Has the first requirement been met?

It will be if they are sent to Gitmo for life.

[PJ-Comix]

This could be an attempt to shift attention.

Actually you could be right. I just heard that they drove right past a toll booth without paying. If they didn't want to draw attention they would have simply paid the toll. The question now is, if this is a diversion, where is the MAIN EVENT due to happen?

[js1138]

Several thoughts: How many people get stopped for running a toll booth? Isn't it more common to get a ticket in the mail? Maybe there is no bomb. They could be part of a hijacking team, or they might be the detonation crew for a bomb already in place.

In any case, it's possible the bad stuff arrived separately.

[PJ-Comix]

Several thoughts: How many people get stopped for running a toll booth?

Still stupid. Better to drop a few coins in a toll and be done on the safe side.

[InkStone]

We’re not facing professionally trained Soviet saboteurs here. These scum have indeed been total idiots.

Wasn’t it atta in a Hollywood, FL bar that made a big scene, refused to pay his tab and started shooting off his mouth about being an airline pilot?

But that’s just the problem: we CAN NOT ASSUME THEY ARE ALL SUCH IDIOTS. What a perfect set up to nail us: that they give us EXACTLY what we expect to find.

Be Alert. Anything That Doesn’t Look Right: Check It Out. Get Involved. Do Your Duty.

[Genesis defender]

Someone should nominate the Hamas terrorist who tried to kill Israelis a few months back in a suicide bombing, but he ended up doing a Polish kamikaze mission.

I forget exactly where this took place, but it definitely happened within the last six months.

[Eala]

No, you're supposed to die to get the Darwin award -- or at least take yourself irreversibly out of the gene pool.

Kind of like these three guys. (Not great contenders for the prize, admittedly, but they're definitely out of the pool now.)

[AmericanInTokyo]

The true "Darwinism" in all of this would have been for a timing mistake and for their car to inadvertedly and accidentally explode long before they planned, making their carcasses fresh meat for the gators, strewn over a square mile radius in the swamps.

[Michael2001]

Thank God our enemies are so stupid.

[talleyman]

Amen!

[layman]

I hope a reporter has the forsight to be on location when these three stooges walk into the medical convention one day late. The name tag table will probably be gone by then but everyone will know who they are because they will probably disrupt the proceedings demanding a refund for the day they missed. I think there is more to this story.

[madison10]

Law Enforcement---Note to selves:

1. Check to see if there really is a medical school/Convention.

2. Check for large amounts of cash hidden in the bumpers, possibly wrapped in fabric softener sheets (see other Freep post)

3. Check to see if the "jokers" are signed-up for said medical school convention

4. License plate mix-up? How convenient.

5. "Training??" Medical=Biological=weapons?

[A CA Guy]

What kind of doctor who swears an oath to do no harm to people, then plays a joke like that.
The woman and her son heard them.

[Oreo Kookey]

I think there is more to this story.

I'm so glad to hear you say that. I hope the authorities keep their names on the "list". We'll hear more of them one of these days.