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Boston Scare Caused By Marketing Mistake
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| 02/01/07
| Puppage
Posted on 02/01/2007 5:02:47 AM PST by Puppage
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To: Wormwood
No one can defeat the Quad laser.
To: Deaf Smith
The various emergency response teams all around the country have spent tons of money (ours) on equipment & toys. These incidents gives them a chance to bring all their stuff out and go into full response mode and play with their toys. Doing such justifies their expenditures and increases in future budgets.I don't even think they were trying to justify their budgets. I think they were just bored. Imagine: You're part of an "elite" squad, but you're rarely called into action. Your training is rarely effective, because it's all role-playing and academic. You have all kinds of government-provided toys to play with, but you can't take them out of the box. Wouldn't you jump at the opportunity to blow something up for real? I would.
To: Wormwood
Look at the other latest example in Austin, Texas two weeks ago. After a cold front that caused overnight temperature changes, some trash birds died and they shut off a portion of the city.
Feed some hype/misinformation to the MSM and the emergency response teams are able to do a all-out live drill.
Did we not hear/read from the MSM yesterday that the bomb squad DID find pipe bombs?
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
02/01/2007 6:47:14 AM PST
by
Conservomax
(There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
To: Miss Marple
It's a little-watched late night show which I only marginally knew about, and I didn't know who the characters were.You earthlings are so naive. We moon people are so much more enlightened than you.
105
posted on
02/01/2007 6:47:17 AM PST
by
jmc813
(Please check out www.marrow.org and consider becoming a donor. You may save a life.)
To: from occupied ga
The paranoids are doing the terrorists work for them.
Better to be blown up by a bomb than to live in fear. I'll be damned if I'm going to freak out every time there's a toy, a car, or a garbage can out of place.
106
posted on
02/01/2007 6:47:43 AM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
To: Aikonaa
Send the bill for the mess to these 'guerrilla marketers' and you will see this kind of nonsense ending quickly. Thats a very good sugestion
107
posted on
02/01/2007 6:47:49 AM PST
by
Charlespg
(Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
To: Conservomax; Miss Marple
I've been ill and haven't been able to read all the replies, but after listening to all the shock, fear, and anger expressed last night on WBZ Boston, I was struck by the following irony:
Boston liberals recoil at the idea that the city overreacted to these ads. The city had to act based on the information it possessed. But on the other hand, Boston liberals refuse to apply the same logic to President Bush's actions in Iraq.
I just find it interesting.
108
posted on
02/01/2007 6:49:54 AM PST
by
zook
(America going insane - "Do you read Sutter Caine?)
To: DB
My beef is with the government's response, not whomever was concerned or reported it. But the response is to the reports, not the reality of what's determined later. They don't have the luxury of waiting until they find out there's no risk, even if they're pretty sure there is no risk.
If they did, and instead there turned out to be an actual plot in action... we'd *fry* them for failing to act in time. It's a no-win for them.
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posted on
02/01/2007 6:50:06 AM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: MizSterious
No, but I've seen the really POORLY drawn "characters." What cartoons are masterfully drawn? Were the Flintstones wonderfully drawn? Was Huckleberry Hound great art? Magilla Gorilla? Heck, in most cartoons, the people just have three fingers.
The point of adult cartoons, like the ones on Adult Swim, is not great drawing, but satire. Some suck, but some are pretty funny.
To: Constitution Day
111
posted on
02/01/2007 6:51:13 AM PST
by
Wormwood
(Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderate)
To: longtermmemmory
We have drug smugglers using children's dolls and teddy bears. We have palestinians using the shape of a pregnant woman to hide bombs. Plastic explosives chan be shaped into anything, INSIDE anything. The lesson here is that criminals attempt to hide their bombs using everyday, innocuous objects that do not draw attention to themselves. Magnetic signs with light-up Mooninites do not fit the profile. (If you want to ignore the profile, than yeah, anything could be a bomb. It could be someone you know. Someone you trust. You might be a bomb and not even know it.)
To: FunkyZero
Truest statement so far ....
113
posted on
02/01/2007 6:52:13 AM PST
by
SubGeniusX
("BLAMMO! Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead!")
To: Wormwood
You haven't seen the show, so your opinions on it are worthless.Aren't these ignorant Earth people cute with their 3 dimensions?
114
posted on
02/01/2007 6:52:24 AM PST
by
jmc813
(Please check out www.marrow.org and consider becoming a donor. You may save a life.)
To: RedStateRocker
The paranoids are doing the terrorists work for them. This just shows the competence of the Boston "authorities" Is boston even part of the USA any more or did it join with Quebec and no one noticed or cared.
115
posted on
02/01/2007 6:52:59 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
To: Ramius
Well if that's the standard we are doomed.
If someone reports something odd being dropped in a trash can in a couple of locations we have to shut down the city...
Someone could actually go look at the "device" that had been there for more than a week to make a determination prior to shutting down the city...
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posted on
02/01/2007 6:53:19 AM PST
by
DB
To: Wormwood
Posting these images is probably considered terrorist activity.
Should we turn ourselves into Homeland Security or just wait for them to batter down our doors?
To: Constitution Day
No one can defeat the Quad laser.
118
posted on
02/01/2007 6:55:57 AM PST
by
Wormwood
(Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderate)
To: Wormwood
The bullet is enormous, there is no escaping.
To: zook
That is an EXCELLENT point, zook! Just excellent!
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posted on
02/01/2007 6:57:59 AM PST
by
Miss Marple
(Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
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