I eat live kittens and shoot puppies as well. But since you know me so well, that's not news to you.
Why bother trying to reason? The level of ignorance from the true patriots on the forum is breathtaking. I wish these folks would use their noggins once in a while. A bare circuit board does not automatically equal a bomb.
Right. Because:
1. (and I don't think that I've seen this in any of the posts here) a bomb threatening a load-bearing element would almost certainly be up against the roadway.
2. Why the hell would they light them up?
3. I have never seen a police response to a potential terrorist threat that I thought was appropriate:
I was near the former WTC site one day when alarms started going off. Of course, a lot of people started running. It took 10 min to shut them off and 20 min to say that it was a mistake.
Bag searches on NY subways: by far the stupidest things ever. Five minutes of research could tell you where you could get on without ever being searched (207th st), because there were never any cops in the neighborhood unless there was a murder. God, I miss Manhattan. And if you're carrying a bomb, you just turn around without incident and take a taxi to another station.