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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JBA on May 05, 2006, 09:04:09 AM
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200605/CUL20060505a.html
promotion for Paramount Pictures' upcoming movie, "Mission: Impossible III" was designed to turn the "everyday news rack experience" into an "extraordinary mission."
plan was to conceal digital audio players in 4,500 randomly selected newspaper boxes around Los Angeles and Ventura County. When newspaper buyers opened the racks, the six inch long, two-and-a-half inch wide red plastic boxes -- connected to activator switches on the news rack doors -- would play the easily-recognizable "Mission: Impossible" theme song.
One newspaper buyer saw the device and switch, thought it was a bomb and called authorities. After an inspection of the newspaper rack could not determine whether the device was explosive, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bomb squad blew up the newspaper rack.
Perhaps the most serious was in West Los Angeles, where as many as 300 people, including some 50 patients, were evacuated from the Veterans Affairs Administration's Ambulatory Care Center. A newspaper buyer had reported a suspicious object in the news rack inside the main hospital building.
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Can anyone say DUMAS. Arrest them for terroist acts. send a mesage.
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funny as heck..
for many reasons :D
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What message would we be sending by arresting them for terrorist acts?
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Originally posted by SOB
What message would we be sending by arresting them for terrorist acts?
that al-q and paranoia has won yet another battle
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That being a DUMAS by terrorizing the general public, with such stupidity for a bad movie and bad actors, lands you in jail for a few months.
So you think by putting an electronic device in a newspaper box in a military hospital is a good idea, and we’re just being “paranoid”
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Originally posted by JBA
TSo you think by putting an electronic device in a newspaper box in a military hospital is a good idea, and we’re just being “paranoid”
yup
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Originally posted by JBA
That being a DUMAS by terrorizing the general public, with such stupidity for a bad movie and bad actors, lands you in jail for a few months.
So you think by putting an electronic device in a newspaper box in a military hospital is a good idea, and we’re just being “paranoid”
No mens rea, no crime.
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Perhaps if Spain or London had been alittle more paranoid, many lives would have been saved.
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London is plenty paranoid (cameras everywhere, shooting tourists in the face etc). Lot of good that did them. Not.
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yes without a doubt
we could all give up our freedoms and be perfectly safe from pretty much all external threats
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Theres one of those singing paper things 1/2 block away.
It sounds like one of those musical greeting cards only mixed with lots of traffic.
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I'm with our Euro and Canadian brothers on this one. If the American public is afraid of a little bitty MP3 player, then the terrorists have already won.
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Not paranoia. Someone saw what they thought might be a bomb, and didn't ignore it. Authorities responded and didn't know what they were dealing with, so they evacuated the area and bomb squad destroyed the newspaper rack.
This all sounds like a reasonable response to me. What am I missing here?
Les
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Public's crotchety appreciation of effectively awkward handling by the bomb squad et al. equates to terrorists establishing a vulcan grip on said populace.
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The music players were supposed to be installed so they were not visible.
oops.
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I'd rather take my risks than live in a perfectly "safe", sanitized society. If you want to live in a cage, so be it.
J_A_B
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I guess the LAPD got to them first ebfore the box says "this will explode in 5 seconds"
Gives new meaning to the phrase "explosive news"
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Originally posted by JBA
That being a DUMAS by terrorizing the general public, with such stupidity for a bad movie and bad actors, lands you in jail for a few months.
So you think by putting an electronic device in a newspaper box in a military hospital is a good idea, and we’re just being “paranoid”
No, I don't think it's a good idea. And no, I don't think you're being "paranoid", I think you're being a reactionary twit. They made a stupid decision with no malicious intent behind it, and you want to jail them for "terrorist acts". Sorry for questioning you, comrade commissar!
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Originally posted by x0847Marine
Theres one of those singing paper things 1/2 block away.
It sounds like one of those musical greeting cards only mixed with lots of traffic.
Go steal one and sell it on ebay.
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See I told you all Nilsen wasn't in jail for fondling young sheep in a Muslum Country!!!! It was Islamic!!!
Glad to see ya back Bud. How's the wifey?
Mac
BTW they've been talking bad about you in anutha thread.... I defended you on the "Captains Beard" thingy....
*shhhh secret is safe with me Buddy*
:aok
Mac