Typewriter Mistaken for Bomb, Shuts Down Street

[TomInTib]

Welcome to Chickensh*t Nation....

http://www.switched.com/2007/12/04/typewriter-mistaken-for-bomb-shuts-down-street/?ncid=NWS00010000000001

This may sound like a joke, but trust us, it's true. In Sarasota, Florida, streets were closed after a typewriter was reported as a suspicious package. And while many of us may not remember what one of these pre-PC word processors looks like, the senior citizens in Florida should have no excuse.

In the spirit of complete disclosure, the typewriter was inside its briefcase-like carrying-case and stashed in a locked cage under a stairwell in a county parking facility. The package was doubly suspicious since the only people with access to the cage would have been county officials.

Following standard procedure for a post 9/11, terrorism-obsessed world, the local bomb squad was called in. It proceeded to detonate the typewriter, then discovered it was just a typewriter.

[Rosemary2205]

1. I'm laughing my ass off.

They detonated the typewriter!

I feel safer already!

LOL

[Bozita]

2. Don'tcha love the way bomb squads blow up suspicious shit?

It reminds me of kids with firecrackers.

Last week, they blew up the road flares used in the HRC campaign office takeover.

[Turbineguy]

3. Bush can

take credit for that in his next SOTUS. Another plot foiled.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

4. At least in Boston there were flashing lights in the "bomb"...

amateurs...

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Dumbasses. Shakespeare said...

"the pen is mightier than the sword", not the typewriter :)

on edit, maybe they were on to something. If a sword can kill a person, and the pen is mightier, just imagine the amount of destruction you could do with a typewriter.

[Bozita]

6. In Chicago's Loop, streets were shut down over a puddle of -get this- guacamole on the sidewalk

This was in the days following the still unsolved anthrax mailings.

And, just around the corner from the suspect puddle was a fast food Mexican joint.

[TomInTib]

8. Hey, that sh*t can kill you.

I almost died after eating some guacamole off the sidewalk in Laredo.

[gmoney]

crazy crazy... thanks for sharing

:crazy:

[gmoney]

7. dupe

oops

[TomInTib]

9. Hey, if I don't see it on the "Latest" page, I post it.

"Search" never works for me.

[gmoney]

10. sorry, I mean that I removed a dupe because I double posted.

did not mean to cast asparagus...

[TomInTib]

11. No asparagus taken...

It was mostly tomatoe (Quail-spell) and Ceasar Salad here, tonight.

And a few bottles of Cabernet.

And a bit of Humboldt's finest.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do...


Tom