[Turret Gunner A20]

RE: # 253

No they didn't "detain" her. They surrounded her with automatic weapons and threatened to blow her brains out if she moved.

def: detain -- 1.to keep in custody; confine. 2.to keep; withhold. 3. to keep from going on; delay.

Now, I don't know about you. pal, but, if they surround me with automatic weapons and threaten to blow my brains out if I move, I have brains enough to freeze as stiff as a marble statue. And, I will also consider myself thoroughly detained.

[AndyJackson]

Let us go back to basics. It wasn't a bomb. She did not pretend it was a bomb. It doesn't look like a bomb. So the state troopers therefore used their iron clad logic to conclude that she was trying to perpetrate a hoax.

Just because one party is a dupe to self-delusion does not mean that the other party is a fraud.