[mass55th]

"Anything can be dangerous. There's public trash cans all over the place."

And a married friend of my son's put his trash into one of those trash cans and was stuck with a syringe. He ended up having to go for preventive AIDS treatment and was in mental anguish for months until cleared of any disease.

[MizSterious]

Actually, in some parts of the world, anything could be a bomb--and too often, is. One day, Heaven help us, it might be the same for us. At least, that is the Islamic ideal.

[Boston Blackie]

Anything can be dangerous.

...like an unattended backpack at the olympics or a few airline passengers with utility knives...nah. /sarc

[Miss Marple]

I think we are looking at a generaltional gap here. On this and another thread quite a few people are trashing the Boston police for overreacting, saying that it was obvious these weren't bombs.

Well, seeing them in daylight when they were not lit(so that the character design wasn't obvious) with an odd wire and stuck to a bridge, I don't think it could have been obvious to me.

Lots of people assume that what they know is common knowledge, when it isn't. I don't know what a bomb is supposed to look like; I am not trained in explosives and all I can go on is what I have seen in movies and television programs.

Also, there are a lot of people who, unfortunately, do not take terrorism seriously. After all this time, I don't understand it.

This seems to me to be an irresponsible action that isn't easily explained away. Turner is certainly doing heavy duty damage control, which indicates that THey believe there is something wrong with this PR stunt.

Also, we don't know that the other cities didn't have some concerns...just that they didn't broadcast it.

Well, I support the Boston Police actions. And I hope this costs Turner millions of dollars.