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Run for your life! I thought New Yorkers were supposed to be tough.
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Kats said he tried to reassure his fellow passengers that it was a school project – not a bomb – but people scrambled for the exits nonetheless. The box he was holding had a small battery, wires and a motor.”They were panicking, and I realized their fear,” an apologetic Kats said.
He said he tried to disassemble the contraption on the platform even as he reassured riders, “Don’t worry. This is my science project.” Kats was questioned by police and later released.
I’m actually surprised the kid didn’t end up in Gitmo.
Aric Mackey
DON’T TAZE ME BRO!
Just goes to show how jumpy and weak our nation has become.
As a computer engineering student I have built several things for class that have made me wonder how this doesn’t happen more often. Anybody with some exposure to electronics would know better but unfortunately the vast majority of the population has:
A. very little knowledge of electronics or electronic components
and
B. become so paranoid about terrorism that they associate anything that they don’t immediately recognize with an explosive device.
If you carried a bare motherboard in a crowded area some cop would probably pull a gun on you.
Just look at the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare that was featured on DU back in Feb 07.
The ongoing joke with my wife and I is that if someone looked through our window and saw any of the projects I have to build for class, the cops/FBI/ATF/DHS/*.* would be busting down our door shortly thereafter.
#2 – #3 – You are 100% correct.
If you live in fear, you are an idiot. The only people I am afraid of is our own cops, Homeland Security, our own courts, and our own President.
If there were suicide bombers attacking bagel shops in New York and Miami on a weekly basis… If panel trucks were detonating outside government buildings on an annual basis… If mid level government bureaucrats were vanishing from American streets only show up being decapitated in videos shot in remote rural cabins… If any of this stuff were happening, I would understand fear… and even be afraid.
But none of that is happening.
We are not under attack. We are barely at war. This is how you know… When a nation is under attack, it’s people pay attention to the news instead of nationally televised talent shows. When a nation is at war, its people make sacrifices to help the war effort.
The only people paying attention and making sacrifices in this “war” are the people who’s sons and daughters are being killed to justify no-bid contracts for Bush and Cheney’s corporate cock sucking buddies.
If I were on that train I’d have certainly told the guy with the smoking gizmo NOT to apologize. Those people do not need to be rewarded for being stupid.
New York is really wimping out.
In the good old days, someone would have shot him.
#4 – If you live in fear, you are an idiot. The only people I am afraid of is our own cops, Homeland Security, our own courts, and our own President.
I have parsed my own English, and it turns out that my paragraph above, taken on its own merits, means that I am in fact… an idiot.
Damn!
I hate being an idiot. I am so ashamed.
🙂
I don’t think I’m “living in fear”, but I would have moved to the next car (unless there was a smelly homeless person in the next car).
#7 If it were a real bomb, moving to the next car wouldn’t really help…
I’m not afraid of our current president. I am however already afraid in advance of our next one.
#8
If it were a bomb like the one set-off in Times Square, moving to the next car would save your life.
#6,
I hate being an idiot. I am so ashamed.
Nothing wrong with being an idiot. Just ask theGlobalWarmer.
Ah… I see that the conditioning of the American sheeple is proceeding as planed.
JustSomeGuy
B. become so paranoid about terrorism that they associate anything that they don’t immediately recognize with an explosive device.
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It’s funny… 120,000 shepple have been murdered, in the US alone, since 9/11.
From what I can tell, the sheeple are far more scared of being killed by terrorists then by murderers, even though the odds of being in a terrorist attack are lower then that of winning the lottery.
Dammit I’m an idiot Who wants another drink
Speaking of student “experiments” being mistaken for bombs… what ever happened to that MIT girl who wore the battery activated sweater to Logan Airport?
#11 – Good one. Real subtle. 😉
Get some balls NY !!!
lou said
Get some balls NY !!!
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Well, what do you expect from a city that once voted in a crossdresser as Mayor.
the reason they ran is mostly because Manhattan has been over run by yuppies and corporate ceo wannabe’s from new jersey and Connecticut. very few of the the old school new yorkers are still here.
lastly, the B train caters more so to commuters from the bronx and brooklyn, as well as the snooty central park west crowd (those that ride the subway anyway) and tourists. -not true “new yorkers” in my book..
-now, had he done that on the 1 or 2 train, he probably would have gotten dogged or ignored, depending on the mood of the rest of the passengers..
-soundwash