Author Topic: [as] Shuts Down Boston (Read 3000 times)

Meatwad · « **Reply #135 on:** February 03, 2007, 06:58:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy

WTF is up with the people in black in the upper left corner with the red circles on them? Look like oddly misshapen and misplaced breasts on mutated freaks

john9001 · « **Reply #136 on:** February 03, 2007, 07:04:05 PM »

well those "nuke" shoes were made in china.

rpm · « **Reply #137 on:** February 03, 2007, 11:10:59 PM »

Chinese Nukes!!!!

Sixpence · « **Reply #138 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:52:12 AM »

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Originally posted by EagleDNY
What about an envelope with a piece of blank paper and a little white powder in it? Think you should be paranoid about that? How could anyone let something like that cause a terrorist alert? You want to be the one that takes the bet that it's just powdered sugar and not anthrax? I know a few postal workers up here in DC that would've lost that bet.

We were at the GMF in Boston at the time. All the incoming mail of metro Boston gets processed there. Pretty scary, we must have over three thousand people who work there. What are you going to do? You can't stop the mail, we had to go. We put on the cheap masks and the rubber gloves and crossed our fingers. We knew of the other infected postal workers, but they didn't give us much info on the situation other than the building is being tested for spores.

We have machines now that check the mail, they spent millions on them. As the letters are first dumped, they pass through a conveyor that samples the air. It checks for Anthrax and several other biological weapons that we are not privy to.

We have an annual drill in case of a contamination, takes awhile and is extensive. They even take some volunteers to go through decontamination procedures.

About a week after the attacks there was a white powder spill at Somerville station. They evacuated the station and went through the procedures. Turns out it was just oxyclean.

But hey, I guess they were just being paranoid. The fools couldn't tell oxyclean from anthrax

Oh, and btw, to this day, the attacks are unsolved. An interesting read on the attacks

BTW · « **Reply #139 on:** February 04, 2007, 09:34:33 AM »

Phewwwww- Had me for a second, but its safe, it has lite brites on it!

Chairboy · « **Reply #140 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:05:51 AM »

Thank you for proving Godwins Law. It demonstrates exactly how strong your argument is.

(golf clap)

Slash27 · « **Reply #141 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:40:01 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Thank you for proving Godwins Law. It demonstrates exactly how strong your argument is.

(golf clap)

And your post shows how weak and out of context yours has been.

Chairboy · « **Reply #142 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:52:59 AM »

It's funny, the same day this happened, two actual pipe-bomb hoaxes (decorated to look like pipe bombs) were found in Boston, the person who did it was identified, and he hasn't been arrested.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=180349

It's pretty clear that the Boston government is embarrassed by their over-the-top reaction. Incidents like the fake pipe-bomb one I linked to here seem to really shred any assertion that Boston's reaction is in any way appropriate or consistent.

Chairboy · « **Reply #143 on:** February 04, 2007, 10:56:52 AM »

Ha! Now they're trying to ban guerilla marketing. Folks living in Boston must be mortified at what their elected officials are doing.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070202/143843.shtml

x0847Marine · « **Reply #144 on:** February 04, 2007, 11:44:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
It's pretty clear that the Boston government is embarrassed by their over-the-top reaction.

I thought the same when they played "victim" on TV... when PDs start to look a but dumb, they play the "we were fooled" card in the media while passing the buck. And they're not always as "fooled" as they claim...

Some citizen brought a few military smoke grenades to the station for us to dispose of. His brother snagged 3 from a Guard reserve weekend, dude just didn't want his idiot bro to get drunk and chuck em down the street... like hes done before.

I was going to keep em for myself...but my watch commander had another idea: evacuate the city building, put up lots of yellow 'POLICE' tape.. generate drama.. "it could be an explosive made to look like a smoke grenade". He was sporting a woody barking orders like Patton.

3 hours later an old salty mofo Sgt from the Sheriff bomb squad rolls up, while smoking a cigarette he retrieves the smoke grenades, and tosses em in his trunk asking "anything else?" while looking at us as if we were just Fing stupid.

Pretty embarrassing to say the least, but commander Numbnuts had the perfect excuse to justify looking lame; "we just didn't know"...then he blamed the citizen & his brother vowing a full investigation with teh charges!!!

Maverick · « **Reply #145 on:** February 04, 2007, 11:51:18 AM »

HHHmmm.

I have a neat idea for a new style smoke alarm. It will have both a high pitched squeel and a loud speaker that broadcasts the words fire alert.

I want to test it. Chairboy I am hiring you to test market it for me in Los Angeles. You then take 12 of them and have them placed inside indoor threaters. During the early evening shows your company triggers them inside the theaters to demonstrate their effectiveness to overcome loud sounds (movie sound tracks) and convey the message of a fire.

You decide to do this rather than conventional marketing methods. You don't intend to harm anyone just demonstrate how effective the devices are. There is no real threat and the devices are benign in appearance. The fire department and police are not notified ahead of the test as you want the most accurate responses to the device possible.

Do you see any problems with your method of marketing?

FWIW this is obviously already against the law but it's still a valid example.

Chairboy · « **Reply #146 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:10:34 PM »

Riddle me this:

1. Why they were in place for 3 weeks before anyone noticed.
and
2. Why nobody called them in in any of the other 9 major cities where they were installed?

Sixpence · « **Reply #147 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:14:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Riddle me this:

1. Why they were in place for 3 weeks before anyone noticed.

So if some doesn't notice a pipe bomb for three weeks it's not dangerous?

Chairboy · « **Reply #148 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:18:44 PM »

Ah! So now you're arguing that the Lite Brites were dangerous? I don't think that's an accurate assessment.

BTW, why didn't you answer the questions?

Maverick · « **Reply #149 on:** February 04, 2007, 12:20:09 PM »

Possibly because there were more observant people in boston after 3 weeks. Which is kinda hard to believe being it's bean town. It's also immaterial. Lack of observation provides neither safety or danger.

Riddle me this. Why do most drivers involved in a collision with another motor vehicle state they "didn't see the other one"?