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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:33 PM
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All-Clear Called in Boston, packages deemed a hoax.
Yep.

Who brought the cool kid?

I'd love a few minutes with the funny guys.

Fuckers.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:34 PM
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1. A couple of shots of Herradura will help calm your nerves
I hope they find out who played this hoax, I find it almost as destructive as the real thing since we have to treat every threat, real or hoax, as if it were real
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:35 PM
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3. Yep
The funny guys just made sure a few million people will have a nightmare time getting home tonight, cost the taxpayers a shitload of money because of the massive response, and added to the fun terra-terra-terra party we've all been having.

Five minutes. All I ask.
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twilight_sailing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:35 PM
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2. Check with the Young Republicans.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:36 PM
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6. Actually
If it's true that one of the packages lit up in a smiley face, I'm thinking MIT. Their pranks are legendary.
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twilight_sailing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:36 PM
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7. True
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 04:05 PM
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18. my thoughts exactly
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:35 PM
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4. A hoax. Like what we have in the White House right now.
Would a kind Democrat please wake me up when it's all over? This has been a really long nightmare...
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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:36 PM
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5. Idiots.
They'll get caught. I'm sure they are on about 50 different cameras.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:39 PM
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8. Just goes to show that we have become a nation of chickenshits.
I think it is absolutely hilarious.

Sorry it happened in your town, tho, Will.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:41 PM
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11. Chicken shits how exactly?
Because our police took their jobs seriously?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 07:02 PM
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20. See my reply #19, below
This is just too easy.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:41 PM
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12. How do you mean?
Re: Chickenshits.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 07:01 PM
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19. I mean that a few packages lying around could paralyze part of a major city.
Just think how much damage a National group of pranksters could cause.

I guarantee you that I could take 20 guys and shut down the Super Bowl without causing any damage but economic damage.

Hell, I could take 60 guys and shut down the entire Christmas Season.

Those two events alone would place a serious clamp on our economy.

I have given this a lot of thought - I am not merely spewing, here.

As a Nation, we have become afraid of our own shadow(s).

No emotion is easier to generate than fear. And scared humans are the most easily manipulated of all the animals.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:40 PM
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9. Interesting that this would happen the day after Olbermann very publicly
called bullshit on those "terror averted" situations that * cited in the SOTU. I wonder who planted those packages...
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:41 PM
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10. If the story of the smiley-face package is true,
I'm betting on those clever kids over at MIT.
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:43 PM
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13. My money's on Edward's house.
Edited on Wed Jan-31-07 03:46 PM by gatorboy
Not only is it massive but also electronics savvy.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:45 PM
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14. ...and the pure essence of evil.
:)

Thanks. I needed that.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:59 PM
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16. snarf.... now how does Barbaro figure into this?
:rofl:
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 03:50 PM
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15. A Smiley Face? Easy to figure out.
It's a new Wal-Mart advertising campaign!
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-31-07 04:00 PM
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17. What a surprise. Not.
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