"The Peter Berdvosky was arrested in Arlington Wednesday night and charged under a recently enacted statute making it a crime to place a hoax device that results in panic."
... What? Is it just me, or has the US government done a really good job convincing the people that they're under constant terrorist threat?
Imo they're still trying. UK is under more threat than the US - after that thing in Birmingham the other day ¬_¬ whatever that was... I'm far too ignorant to care really. Stupid globe.
i mean its just so hilarious. people see Ignignokt or Err flipping the finger and they seriously think its a joke. I really LOVE how the media is all like THEY ARE EVIL HOW COULD THEY DO THAT! GO TO HELL!
it just makes me go "lawl yanks are funny". Like CNN.com called their video "A scary 'promotion'"
it just makes me lol a lot and i love how the two people they arrested are giving an interview about haircuts.
check out this one:
"Peter Berdvosky, an employee of the company, has been arrested by Boston police under a recently enacted law that makes it a crime to place hoax devices that panic the public"
i would love to get more informations on that one.
it sounds like it went like this: "OH NOES WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS A BOMB BUT IT WASNT! LETS SENT HIM TO JAIL!" - "but we can't- there isnt a law that says doing such a thing is illegal" - "WELL LETS CREATE A NEW LAW IN THAT CASE THAT SAYS IT IS INDEED ILLEGAL" and with that new law they could arrest him
is that REALLY how it went? it sounds like it to me
It's hilarious that a PCB board with a few LED's and a battery case (I think it was 2 AA's) can be mistaken for a bomb. Boston police = Big Dumb. Any ten year old who's ever pulled apart anything even REMOTELY electronic could have told you it wasn't a fucking bomb. Now the Police have arrested someone to cover up their own stupidity.
What fucking retards. Wong, Please shout that at your nearest Boston Polics Department for me.
Thankfully we were all sitting unaware of it in our office while the city was in a state of panic over some light boards. The original one was found just next to one of the stations I pass through on the way to work.
We're living in a dangerous world at the moment. On the train today I saw signs saying that unattended luggage will be confiscated and potentially destroyed just incase it's a bomb. What would I be happier with? Police who arrest people for making something that *could* have been a bomb (regardless of how it looks on the outisde *cof* backpack) and then give them a fucking telling off for being knobrats, or police who didn't care. They've got to be fucking vigilant.
So a terrorist comes along and disguises a bomb as a coin block for Mario and we're all toast. But that's okay. Initially it didn't look like a bomb.
Then again I suppose you have Jean Charles de Menezes, or lack of.
SilverNova- What makes you think the UK is under more threat than the US. You can't say either way. So much goes on behind the scenes. You honestly think the terrorist attacks and near-misses shown in the papers are the only threats we've had? Or that becuase the US don't publish them often makes it any different? The only people who know who's under more threat are the security forces.
They were up for a month. Then some moron calls it in and they turn it into a huge panic instead of actually looking at one first.
So a terrorist comes along and disguises a bomb as a coin block for Mario and we're all toast. But that's okay. Initially it didn't look like a bomb.
You realise that explosives can be disguised as just about anything, right? But the very last thing they'd be disguised as would be a series of something highly visible and unusual in a public place. Wasting time and manpower on things that obviously aren't bombs isn't vigilant, it's stupid, and pretty much the opposite of vigilant considering how many cops would've been diverted from their real jobs. America has bigger problems than fictional terrorists.
Also i'm against the fact that these men are actually still being charged as though they were actually hoaxing a bomb threat, making it seem that the authorities were right and the men were dirty terrorist criminals.
When clearly this was nothing more than a misunderstanding.
It was just a misunderstanding, but now the police (and notably, Fox AKA News For Idiots) are calling it a "hoax bomb threat" to prevent themselves from seeming quite so stupid.
Still, as long as terrorists don't plant any bombs that go off in less than a month then we'll be fine.