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Breaking: 'Hoax Devices' Found At Several Boston Locations (Several 'Suspicous Packages' Found)
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| January 31, 2007
Posted on 01/31/2007 12:04:30 PM PST by Howlin
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To: omega4179
"what if somebody sees a bomb and floors it and runs over a pedestrian."
That is the problem, it is a perception thing. What if someone sees the beam from a large searchlight in the sky from some store "grand opening" and freaks out and runs somebody over. Should the owners of the company go to prison?
To: Strategerist
Here's my hypothesis:
From the images that I've seen of these, it looks like the signs were designed to light up at night. (There's a pic over at http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/ of one of these in Philadelphia in operation.) At night, they light up, it's a cartoon image, no one gets alarmed.
In daylight, they're not lit. Someone wanders by in the daylight, sees a weird circuit board, call the cops suspecting the worst. Other people recall seeing the same thing as well and call the cops. And then we have a city-wide panic.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:34:16 PM PST
by
Starter
To: Txsleuth
"They should be arrested for TERRORIZING the Boston citizens."
And terrorizing the rest of the country, for that matter.
Considering the source of this 'advertising', it may well have had a dual purpose. . . like ridiculing our Homeland Security Department. The placement of the devices was strategic.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:35:48 PM PST
by
windchime
(I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
To: omega4179
Send them to gitmo for 10 years! Good God...
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:35:58 PM PST
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Yeah, yeah... my FReeper name is quite approriate, come up with something new.)
To: Dr.Deth
![](http://members.arstechnica.com/x/treatment/carl-2-athf.jpg)
This was AWSOME!!!...FRICKIN AWESOME!!!!
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:36:29 PM PST
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: Starter
The Boston bomb LEOS know what is what.
They knew as soon as they saw anything that size that the amount of damage it could to to a bridge would be cosmetic.
If it was actually an IED.
To: Lurking in Kansas
Ol' Shep was getting excited, someone was giving the police the bird. I guess you see what you want to see.There's not a lot of gray area about flipping the bird. Here's the device all lit up:
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:42:09 PM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: happinesswithoutpeace
Muslims don't place searchlights they place IEDs
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:43:06 PM PST
by
omega4179
(Hitler had a "Rockstar" personality too.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
Damn Mooninites... I knew they were trouble when they talked Meatwad into smoking & shoplifting.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:43:29 PM PST
by
Volunteer
(Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
To: omega4179
OK, Shirley. We get it. Now hike up your skirt, jump on a chair, and let out a girly scream.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:44:16 PM PST
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Yeah, yeah... my FReeper name is quite approriate, come up with something new.)
To: Lunatic Fringe
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:44:19 PM PST
by
omega4179
(Hitler had a "Rockstar" personality too.)
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To: omega4179
"Send them to gitmo for 10 years! "
Bull, there was no crime and no intent to cause terror. The only guilty parties are those who are guilty of overreaction.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:45:21 PM PST
by
ndt
To: windchime
"Considering the source of this 'advertising', it may well have had a dual purpose. . . like ridiculing our Homeland Security Department. The placement of the devices was strategic."
As usual, we agree. (grin) Bet the terrorists are have a good laugh now too, thanks to CNN et al!
To: Lunatic Fringe
Dismissing enemy threats and dry runs as phobia is a moonbat tactic.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:45:38 PM PST
by
omega4179
(Hitler had a "Rockstar" personality too.)
To: omega4179
"Dismissing enemy threats and dry runs as phobia is a moonbat tactic."
FYI there was no "enemy threat" and there was no "dry run", thats why it is a paranoia.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:47:30 PM PST
by
ndt
To: Lurking in Kansas
They had been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. This should give the muzzie bombers some real hope.
To: omega4179
I read a thread on here last night about a woman (here in the US) who had received death threats, rape threats, threats that her family would be murdered etc. Those threats came from muslim extremists here in the US. The article was about how it was nearly impossible to get the FBI to go after them.
That ticked me off.
Little Aqua Teen billboards do not.
To: penelopesire
"As usual, we agree. (grin) Bet the terrorists are have a good laugh now too, thanks to CNN et al!"
Yes, we do! And . . . they got a dry run they didn't have to execute or waste time, resources and exposure planning.
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posted on
01/31/2007 3:53:24 PM PST
by
windchime
(I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
To: omega4179
What I find fascinating is that all the liberals I know in Boston think the terrorism threat is White House propaganda.
The last Bostonian I talked to about terrorism started laughing aloud and told me George Bush was making the whole thing up.
After seeing this reaction it seems those liberals understand that the threat is real.
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