Comments on: Ridiculing the Ridiculous

By: Tamzen

Tamzen — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:23:38 +0000

Unless it’s on Storrow Drive where it just means the idiot can’t read and has gotten his truck stuck. happens about a bazillion times a year in Boston.

By: Orv

Orv — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:49:46 +0000

Seeing a Ryder truck parked under an overpass ought to worry people a hell of a lot more than seeing a circuit board with some lights on it.

By: JAS

JAS — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:14:09 +0000

I live in Boston as well. And guess what? They don’t look like bombs. Just because something has wires doesn’t make it a bomb – it makes it a device that obviously needs some form of power. You know what it did look like? A LITE-BRITE. Yeah. A Lite-Brite with a cartoon on it.
And that quote about us having a system that works? Maybe that would have rang true about 3 weeks ago when they first went up, but this is just ridiculous.
Here’s some Fox news coverage of the two arrested marketers on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4
Fantastic.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:58:49 +0000

So, have you seen pictures of these things, or are you trusting the police? Where are there pictures that show detonators? What sort of rotten marketing campaign hides their marketing?

By: beri

beri — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:46:36 +0000

I live in Boston. The objedcts that set off the anti-terrorism squad looked like a bomb. They were placed on bridge supports, had wires and such sticking out of them, attached to things that looked like detonators and looked nothing like the photo accompanying your post.
I agree completely that most such “threats” are nonsense, but this was originally a legitimate response to an object that looked very threatening.
You need to separate a legitimate and healthy skepticism about “white powder” and “unknown packages” from something that is hidden or nearly hidden and that looks on the outside like a bomb.