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Texasmame:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 10, 2007, 01:13:45 pm ---Seems like a good excuse to fire the entire boston law-enforcement division to me. 
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Do the what to the what?!?    :dizzy:
Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 10, 2007, 03:51:45 pm ---
How many times does someone need to point out that only in Boston were they placed on Subway power stations and overpass bridge supports?  Everywhere else they were put on storefront signs and light poles.  That is the difference.

How many times does someone need to point out that in the same afternoon a disgruntled hospital employee planted (and reported himself) several fake pipe bombs around the hospital district, dramatically adding to the urgency behind a possible second set of bombs?

And should I need to point out that the Republican agenda is completely irrelevant in Massachusetts or do I need to send Ted Kennedy and John Kerry to your house personally?

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Responding point by point. 

It's a led sign.  Any idiot could see yards away (with a scope) that it's a led sign as the pcb and all the circuitry is exposed.  Bombs need... oh I dunno EXPLOSIVES to blow anything up.  There's no c4, there's no dynamite, no nitro.  Just two double-a's and some leds.  Again, with every single part of the pcb and it's components completely exposed and visible.  Was it a smart move to take the call-in seriously?  Of course!  Should it have went any further than the first officers on the scene arriving and saying "looks like a sign to me"  Hell no!

Again, these obviously weren't bombs.  Anybody with eyes and even the most basic understanding of how a bomb works could have instantly realized that.  Like I said, responding to every threat as if it's serious is a good idea.  Shutting down the whole frikkin city AFTER you've arrived and can tell what it is, isn't.  The fact that somebody planted some fake bombs the same day doesn't change the fact that these weren't even fake bombs, they were signs.

Unfortunately the republican agenda is relevant everywhere.  They ran their last two presidential campaigns by attempting to scare people to death.  It doesn't effect most people, but some simplier-minded individuals, regrdless of their political offiliation, buy into it.  Since the Boston p.d. over-reacted so drastically I can only assume that they were a tad paranoid, and the red guys tend to breed that paranoia. 
ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 10, 2007, 06:49:59 pm ---Unfortunately the republican agenda is relevant everywhere.

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Particularly in your head, apparently.  You see it anywhere and everywhere you look.
SithMaster:

--- Quote ---They received half a billion dollars of exposure for that $2 million.
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Mostly negative for being the cause of a terrorist scare.  And i doubt most people care to watch the show no matter how many bomb scares are started.  Its like advertising for hurling during the super bowl not many people are going to care.

when i saw one of the signs on the news it showed 4 d sized batteries covered in electrical tape.  im not a bomb expert but id imagine there a chemicals and compounds that could blow a signicant chunk out of something for that amount.

err you dont want to fire them outright until replacements are found. even then not all of them could be retards some could actually have just been following orders.
jbox:
Actually, it's almost the other way around. I'm fairly certain this cartoon isn't aimed at your ma & pa type of person, but the sort of "Daily Show" generation which is more likely to pick on 'The Man' for being 'retarded' then on two guy with dreadlocks for being a couple of tools.
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