NEWS: Boston Detonates Another Non-Bomb

oh my god. i wonder who they're going to squeeze money out of because of their own incompetence this time.

They really need to cut off the Stupid Flakes supply to whomever runs the Bomb Squad in Boston.

Do they think terrorists would chain their little bomb to a sign post and use a giant shiny lock to keep people from STEALING their bomb or something? What the fuck? Or that terrorists would just, ya know, put it out in plain sight where anyone who isn't blind could see it?

Are they trying to prove something? Or did they find out this wasn't their street departments counter and thought, lets do the bomb thing again and get some money from these guys too.

Make sure you don't forget your boombox anywhere in Boston, it might get blown up.

My guess for march is a backpack a kid left at a bus stop when he got on the bus. To make it good lets say the backpack has a handheld game and a cell phone in it.

sometimes i don't know whether to laugh or cry about this kinda shit in the world

If there's any real bombs left in Boston in the near future, it'll probably be left by bomb squad members in an effort to redeem themselves from all this recent stupidity.

Now it's just getting embarrassing.

ha! so true

I don't think that they were stupid. It's an unknown device, with no clear markings, as far as I can see from the postage stamp sized photo. They did the right thing by blowing it up.

The stupidity lies in the people who laid the device. It should have clear markings so that the bomb squad can contact the owner to verify that it is not a bomb.

Of course, if the box does have clear markings, that would alter my assessment of the situation.

To clarify my position, imagine that 9/11 could have been prevented, but someone did not act, because they were worried about being embarrased if they made a mistake. How would you write that up as a news piece?

(That's not "you" in the sense of a dig at the author of this news article, but a question for whoever is reading this comment).

And then, they blow the kid up too. He wasn't actually a human, he was a robot bomb designed to look like a child. Them terrorists are gettin' tricky, ya know.

+1

Well...since our government was part of the planning commity on 911, I would have to say that there was NO WAY to prevent 911

Hopfully a small package containing the Mayor and Chief of Police's jobs.

Actually, if people in Boston and other places had followed policies already in place, it would have been prevented.

But, to my real point, for MetaTag, in this country we have things called phones (or this fancy internet we're on) that departments and people can use to call each other and tell them about things their departments are doing.

On top of that, is this the first traffic do-dad ever put up in Boston? And do you think the traffic folk have some contact info or do not tamper this is a traffic do-dad painted on that thing somewhere? I'm guessing so.

I'm afraid this has to go in the fucking moron category again. 3 for 3, Boston!

The Boston Bomb Party! The whole tea thing was kinda old anyway.

I vote a stolen purse with a vibrator in it.

To be fair, now that I think about it, those traffic monitoring boxes would be a good way of disguising a real bomb.

Maybe the city of Boston should start issuing stickers for advertisers and traffic research firms to label their things "Not a Bomb".




Mind you, wouldn't it be clever to put a "not a bomb" sticker on a bomb? Post Modern Terrorism!

I wish they'd detonate those stupid Charlie Ticket kiosks that the tourists can never seem to figure out.

Or, so that I don't have to pay 2 dollars to wait around for 25 minutes for a train to show up.

hah. embarassing.