Comments on: Homeland Insecurity Rule #1: Don’t know what it is? Blow it up!

By: Grrr

Grrr — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:38:58 +0000

#1’s hit it right out of the park
“It’s for the children!!!1!”

#13 provided a valuable lead – an international organization that is already known to have damaged countless Windows installations on the sly.

#15 has the best suggestion for future stunts… Maybe one of the 3 players should be marked “NOT A BOMB” just to make things easier.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:32:32 +0000

#17, They’re a savin lives !!!, Damn the dogs or sniffers. They got those dang gone Bomb Squads all decked out with that fancy equipment. An they’re a gunna use em too. Save a lot of lives too !!!

By: ECA

ECA — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:36:36 +0000

I think its funny, that I THOUGHT’ there was a device that could measure/sence/smell most of the materials used as explosive material..
WHY aint these folks useing it..
I know they use Dogs to sniff for explosives…whats happening here?

By: meetsy

meetsy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:32:25 +0000

#10…”There seems to be all sorts of hatred of Christians here”

No, Mike, it’s hatred of the arrogant christian “I’ve got all the answers” attitude, not the Christians themselves. It just gets a little old with all the hype about how Christians are so poorly treated, when they dish out vile bile and damnation pretty well to everyone who doesn’t think like they do. (This comment mostly is directed at the uber-christian cult-like groups that seem to be all over the country. Most notably the “hater” press savvy leaders of mega churches and the various always-outraged groups.)

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:54:10 +0000

so now you know… if you’re going to plant bombs, only put it in 1 of the CD players… and just hope they only blow up the 2 innocent ones…

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:48:33 +0000

They were in their own house. Whoever pulled this prank probably doesn’t need the conscience he obviously doesn’t have.

#8, Yup, good explanation there Bryan. Blow up the evidence so the criminals can escape. Since when does a CD player, playing a CD, look like a bomb? When was the last time the Bomb Squad actually blew up a real bomb?

By: tallwookie

tallwookie — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:28:26 +0000

It’d be ironic if the explosives that they explode the cd-player-bomb actually triggered an even larger explosion in the unit.

Blame Sony

By: BryanP

BryanP — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:47:59 +0000

#11,

Ah, yes. Because EOD practices designed to minimize danger to the surrounding area extrapolate perfectly as an analogy to our foreign policy.

Oh, wait…

By: Steve S

Steve S — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:34:18 +0000

#8
“Umm… you do know that standard Explosive Ordnance Disposal procedures for a suspected (or even potential) explosive device is to blow it up with a separate explosive device.”

The problem is that today ANYTHING can be perceived as a threat. Fortunetly in this case, the ramifications of over reacting without thinking and blowing up a CD player were minimal. Not so for the ultimate case of over reacting without thinking; the Iraq War.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:20:46 +0000

judging by the posts on this board, I would say they made the right call. There seems to be all sorts of hatred of Christians here, and if someone were doing a prankl like this, perhaps that was step one to actually blowing up the church.

By: RTaylor

RTaylor — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:14:29 +0000

These parishioners were practicing their own faith in their own church. I hardly think this calls for religion bashing. I’m not Roman Catholic, or a member any any other organized religion, but I do respect the rights of others to participate.

By: BryanP

BryanP — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:12:51 +0000

Umm… you do know that standard Explosive Ordnance Disposal procedures for a suspected (or even potential) explosive device is to blow it up with a separate explosive device. If done properly you can destroy a device of unknown potential with a known level of explosive power.

But far be it from me to get in the way of a cop bashing thread.

By: RuralRob

RuralRob — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:49:46 +0000

I think the police do that simply because they LOVE to blow shit up. How often do you get to do that?

By: Steve S

Steve S — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:31:04 +0000

Yet another example of how fear has replaced intelligence. We have become so afraid of our own shadow that when confronted with the unknown, it is more comforting to overreact in fear than to spend even the most brief moment of thought. I don’t know if this is what the terrorists wanted to achieve or if it has simply become more than they could have ever hoped for. We have become our own worst enemy.

Another example:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=9533

By: Arrius

Arrius — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:01:16 +0000

The presence of things blowing up has distracted the original story, that someone actually thought out, made, and enacted a plot to play sexual material in the middle of a church service. I laugh at the balls and blashphemy of the situation, I can only image the church crowd at first looking around and wondering what was going on, the scramble to cover kids ears, the questions after church. Sounds like a discruntled alterboy.