Boston Police are idiots

Yes, and Neil Peart is in it too!

This is totally offtopic, but dude, your signature is way out of line. 

This reminds me that Edgar Allan Poe used to refer to Bostoners as "Frogpondians". 

It's my opinion Jody that much of state govt has spiraled out of control into policies dictated by fear and not on intelligent and rational observations and conclusions.

The response was ludicrous. Similar signs were found all over the country, and had been up for several weeks with few problems. Seattle being an example.

To me, it shows how out of touch the govt has gone. It is run through fear. This was really a harmless prank, and I'm not just saying this because I'm a fan of the show. Take something I dont even like and replace it with the ATHF message. It's really sad how much 9/11 has affected the govt.


Edited by OpethGuitarist - February 01 2007 at 13:47

stonebeard wrote: They acted appropriately, but the news coverage of the whole even is what made me laugh yesterday, even more so today when I found out what was in the boxes. 24-hour news channels are a joke.

Amen to that.

Speaking personally, I find the thread title disrespectful to the Boston Police, who acted appropriately in response to the reports they received. Having a go at them for this is in my view a cheap shot. It is the company behind the stunt at whom the fingers should be pointed.

Police in my town tore apart a bicycle that was left unattended on the local university campus because it had a bumper sticker on it that said "this bkie is a pipe bomb". Apparently that is the name of a band from Florida and the bike owner was a fan. There was a big stink locally about how the local PD overreacting, ( they closed off a couple of square blocks and had a bomb squad dismatle the bike) but as in the Boston issue, I thought they were right on tagret.

The sad thing was there was so much crap about it that the PD bought the kid a new bike. Any idiot who would put a sticker like that on a bike and then leave it in a public place deserves to lose it.

Thanks for clarifying Empathy.

They are, they are. people that defend the police when they do something alarmist and incompetent strike me as alarmist and incompetent... =P

What I think is terrible about this is that people have been ARRESTED for this, and that Boston wants $750,000 from Turner, all because somebody placed some SIGNS.  Hmmmm....I could have sworn that EXPRESSING YOURSELF wasn't a punishable offense in America......

EDIT: to clarify, I am in no way objecting to police being alarmed by boxes with wires sticking out of them stuck to bridges.  What I AM objecting to is that after these devices were found to be innocuous, these people were charged as TERRORISTS.  Someone who posts a sign advertising for a telivision show is in no way a terrorist. 

I think the appropriate form of action would be for the police to return the boxes to their owner(s), along with an apology and a warning.  To continue to prosecute these people after seeing your blunder is downright stupid. 


Edited by rileydog22 - February 02 2007 at 20:40