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The Terrorists Are Laughing At Americans
Posted on August 27th, 2007 3 commentsNew Haven, CT joins Boston as a great example of how America is turning into a country of bed wetters.
From the NY Times version of the article:
Daniel Salchow and his sister, Dorothee, planned to spend a pleasant afternoon marking a trail for fellow members of their offbeat running and drinking club.
Instead, they wound up in police custody after their clue of choice — flour — set off a bioterrorism scare and forced hundreds of people to evacuate an Ikea furniture store on Thursday.
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Dr. Salchow said that after the 9/11 attacks, club members started using chalk to mark courses. But as fears eased, they went back to flour because it is biodegradable. He said they would start using chalk again or find somewhere else to run.
Jessica Mayorga, a spokeswoman for Mayor John DeStefano Jr., said the city planned to seek restitution from the Salchows, and will meet Monday to decide how much.
Ms. Mayorga said they should not have used the flour if they knew it had caused scares in the past.
“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said.
IT’S FLOUR AND CHALK. WASN’T THE CHALK AND THE ARROWS A GIANT FUCKING CLUE? Does no one anywhere in law enforcement in New Haven have the ability of having a single fucking critical thought?
I die a little on the inside when I read these kinda of stories. Are people really that afraid of their shadow? 0.00001% of the population of the US died due to terrorism in the last 10 years. Are you the readers of this blog pissing yourselves every time you leave your house over it?
Update: John Cole at Balloon Juice says it better than I could. Where is this rugged individualism and “These Colors Don’t Run” strength that we’re all supposed to have?
3 responses to “The Terrorists Are Laughing At Americans”
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Porkchop August 27th, 2007 at 08:58
Land of the free, home of the brave. Its false advertising. We as a nation are not brave enough to be free.
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You know the ones who always say we should never ‘cut and run’ and not ‘give in to fear’ and all those nice and warm catch phrases are the first to panic at something.
Look at this nasty terrorists! First they use scary wires and batteries, now flour! What new level will these terrorists stoop to!
BTW – real terrorists are probably rolling on the floor laughing at us when they see things like this.
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Adrianne September 4th, 2007 at 21:46
Paul, John DeStefano is a proud Democrat, so I know he’s never said those things. He even ran for governor (and lost) last year. I was just at that Ikea store the other day, telling my husband and stepkids about what a dump New Haven has turned into. They decided to stop enforcing traffic violations and the crime rate went way up (what a shock!) I’m am always sure to be out of NH by the time it gets dark… not because of terrorism (who’d attack New Haven of all places? I’d bet that half the faculty at Yale believe that Bush made 9/11 happen on purpose), but because of the rampant crime rate.
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