NEWS: Yes, There is a Dumber City Than Boston

POLITICS: Yes, There is a Dumber City Than Boston

Earlier this year the city of Boston was almost destroyed by "terrorists" who hung electronic lighting boards around the city in guerrilla advertising campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. As with most terrorist bombs, they were made of circuit boards with lights attached in the shape of a cartoon character flipping the bird. Police shut down bridges and closed part of the Charles River. Eventually the two "terrorists" were arrested and charged with placing hoax devices and disorderly conduct. In May the state dropped charges after the two served 140 hours of community services and apologized.



Now the city of Montrose, New York in Westchester County has decided it wants in on the "idiotic response to nothing" game.



It is senior prank time and the seniors at Hendrick Hudson High School came up with a fantastic plan. They bought 150 alarm clocks that were shaped like houses or butterflies. They wrapped the clocks in duct tape so teachers could not shut them off and set them for 9:15 am. When the clocks went off all the seniors were going to stand up and march out of school.



Using a stolen key, they broke into the school the night before and put the clock inside. But the clocks were discovered before the students arrived at school in the morning. Police were called in to investigate. Then the state troopers arrived with bomb sniffing dogs. Obviously, no bombs were found.



In cases like this, usually the students aren't allowed to walk during graduation and possibly some community service is ordered by the court for breaking into the school. But not in Montrose, where they are cracking down on senior pranks.

Wha? Great idea. A stupid prank gone wrong should be punished by ruining the lives of 19 teenagers. Well done, Mr. District Attorney.



The students never thought the alarm clocks would be mistaken for bombs because they are all TEENAGERS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Sophomore Grace Bleiweis explained what the seniors will have to tell their cellmates, just before they are raped in prison.

It's really no different than planting fake bombs, if you don't think about it.

I thought this was gonna be about NY

The world is so full of stupidity, I wonder how we've survived as a species as long as we have. I wonder if we could get the DA's e-mail address and flood him with e-mails calling him a douche.

At that point, yer already in trouble for it, might as well go back and blow the fucking thing up.

Student said "We never even thought about blowing the place up until they gave us the idea and we thought, yeah that's a much cooler prank than silly walk outs... cheaper too".

I read the full article, but I can't find how much time they may have to serve. Since it's federal, I'm guessing they're not likely to get a slap on the wrist.

Breaking into school ... with a stolen key ... to plant suspicious devices.

[sarcasm]Yeah, nothing about that seems fishy in the slightest[/sarcasm]

{sarcasm} thanks for getting the point of the article{sarcasm}

Hopefully sentencing will be lenient. It was stupid to break into the school, but it's also kind of alarming that the school didn't think to do anything about a key that had been missing for a year...

They should have just brought the clocks in with them. Probably would have had the same outcome, though.

crap, boston loves being number one. damn, what are we going to do to one up this?

that school has a graduating class of like 150 kids at most. so now a large chunk of them will be locked up instead of graduating. thats just dumb.

Ya I guess designating a predetermined time. Then looking at the wall clock or even better, using a wrist watch and then going to the party and getting wasted and laid would have been sooo boring.

Yes, but the law is supposed to take into account intent in a case where you just randomly classify objects as illegal.

Obviously, they did not intend for people to think the clocks were bombs, so they should not be thrown in jail for other people jumping to conclusions.

What next, you get a felony charge for forgetting your backpack on the subway?
Yeah, they might make a big hullabaloo, call the bomb squad. But you shouldn't go to jail for an actual mistake with zero malicious intent.

Literally anything could be considered "suspicious" it is completely discretionary and indefinable.

They obviously didn't hide them well enough... and so much effort put behind a prank that could have been duplicated easily enough with the fire alarm.

This raises a question, actually: do stupid cities produce stupid seniors?

Wasn't this in one of those teen movies? How classic is it that they broke in using a stolen key? I think that the ones that should be in trouble are the school administrators for not having proper security procedures.

Didn't they ever watch "Fight Club"?

"Modern bombs don't tick."

Hahaha, fucking nicely done, FTR.

Miscontrued is fine but once they unwrap the packages and find nothing but a bunch of alarm clocks, they should calm down and let the kids go.

Just be yourvelves.*

*A cheap shot, I know.

The D.A. should be drawn & quartered, just on general principal.

At my high school, the police had a bomb training excercise where they used a fake bomb in the library.

Unfortunately, they left it at the school by accident where it was discovered by the librarian when walking in for the morning.

It was epic lulz all around when we found out the police were responsible for the fake bomb

there is no more room for fun in this world.

Drunk drivers everywhere would be getting away with murder if we followed your laws.

For senior prank my year, a few students scaled the school and dropped several live chickens into the courtyard in the middle of the school. The next morning, school administrators had to chase them around the school to catch each one. The principal and faculty, though worried the students were actually able to pull it off, thought it was quite amusing. The principal didn't feel he could allow the kids no "punishment," so they had to write an essay; I believe of 500 words.

We have made over-reaction the national pastime.