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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3ENdjPlfsiS5biOQ1Zxv7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/By Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! News | The Lookout
2 hrs 21 mins ago
An Oregon man walked into a state office on Wednesday with a pressure cooker he claimed was a bomb and told employees he tried to blow up a sign outside the building because it was misspelled.
Leonard Burdek, a 50-year-old from Salem, Ore., arrived at the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission offices shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday.
He walked quite confidently into our office as though he had a mission," Vickie Chamberlain, the commission's executive director, told the Statesman Journal. "That was what alarmed me right off the bat."
Burdek allegedly placed the pressure cookerwires sticking out of iton the counter in front of the receptionist, informing her of his failed bomb plot. The man also allegedly complained that the instructions he downloaded to make the device also were misspelled.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/misspelled-sign-pressure-cooker-bomb-130257088.html
Grammar terrorists are worse than grammar Nazis.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)"There, their, they're...."
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)OK, that one made me spit Pepsi!
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)what's a pschologist ?
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)A pschologist is an expert on the logos of the psyche.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...we have to pass through 'Hope, Arizona'. They have a sign as you're leaving town:
Your Now Beyond Hope
The husband starts giggling about a mile before we get to the sign because he knows I'm about to have a meltdown. Even better? The old sign was falling apart, so they replaced it...and didn't change it.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)After a short lived TV series. Hope disappeared, leaving Gloria alone.
We used to tell people that we were now Hope-less.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)Sounds like grade inflation to me.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Looks fine on my end:
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)First they came for the spelelrs..........
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)EPIC FAIL!!
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)This countries goeing strate to hell!
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)(yes, it's )
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)But a charge if he tried would be no surprise, and make for just as a ridiculous story.
Someone painted graffiti on a large utility box near where I live. The utility said it takes months to get to those, if ever, so I overpainted it myself.
I just might be tempted to fix that sign, only I'd do it in red, like correcting a paper.