[as] Shuts Down Boston

[BTW]

Well we know how terrorists should disguise bombs now. Just make them look like a toy. Then all the security experts in here will dismiss them without examining them.

"look there's a lite brite cartoon on it. It can't be a bomb huh huh huh huh."

We're sitting ducks.

[Chairboy]

You're back!  Any chance you'll be answering those questions now, Sixpence?

[BTW]

Originally posted by Chairboy

Also, a note, when you refer to seeing the other side, keep in mind that they were as thick as a sturdy piece of paper.  They were thin circuit-boards with batteries on the front and some LEDs.

Is there some sort of memo somewhere that shows you could not hide an explosive device in this manner? Please point me to it. Please show me a list of things we can just dismiss out of hand as being bombs and where this fits on that list. Its a simple request.

[Chairboy]

BTW, can you give me a good reason why we shouldn't treat every newspaper box as a bomb, then?  How about treating every cinderblock or abandoned car as a bomb threat?

By your logic, you can't be too careful.

[Sixpence]

9/11 security officials tackle two suspicious saudi nationals at Logan airport, found to have pocket knives, being detained and questioned.

Oh, here comes Chairboy. "Boston is freakin paranoid!"  "what, are they going to take over a plane with pocket knives and fly them into a skyscraper!?" "the world is now safe from two foreign exchange students!"

The feds just ok'd a site offshore to store LNG, and although we have no links to proof that they will attack them, it's a big relief around here. But hell, I guess we're just being a little paranoid

[BTW]

Originally posted by Chairboy
BTW, can you give me a good reason why we shouldn't treat every newspaper box as a bomb, then?  How about treating every cinderblock or abandoned car as a bomb threat?

By your logic, you can't be too careful.

Because its not out of place. If you find a newspaper box duct taped under your car, you should be suspicious. If you find an abandoned car in a secure location, you should be suspicious and NOT dismiss it out of hand. Those devices were out of place and therefore suspicious.

My logic is when things are out of place or appear unusual, it should raise suspicion. YOUR logic is whatever you said about being too careful

[Chairboy]

Wow, you guys are two pretty scared folks.

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by Chairboy
Wow, you guys are two pretty scared folks.

Well, we're not paranoid that we're all paranoid

[Masherbrum]

Chairboy, what they fail to address is their own paranoia.

[BTW]

Judging by your last response, I gather you have nothing intelligent to add to the debate.

Its a far better thing that you be right than try to understand how the simple fact of an object being out of place can make it suspicious.

I feel no obligation to make you less stupid:D

[Chairboy]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
Chairboy, what they fail to address is their own paranoia.

True that.

Perhaps they can fix all of these concerns by following the British example:

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by BTW
Judging by your last response, I gather you have nothing intelligent to add to the debate.

lol, you hit him in the ego, he's loading both barrels now

[Shamus]

Originally posted by BTW


My logic is when things are out of place or appear unusual, it should raise suspicion. YOUR logic is whatever you said about being too careful

I saw someone walking a cat on a leash, the cat must have been a bomb.

shamus

[Sixpence]

Originally posted by Shamus
I saw someone walking a cat on a leash, the cat must have been a bomb.

shamus

You see that in Malibu all the time

[Shamus]

Originally posted by Sixpence
You see that in Malibu all the time

Well the cat wouldn't be explosive in Malibu.

shamus