I hear the banjo theme from Deliverance in my head. Also, my head hurts.
In a moment of baffling stupidity, the Boston Bomb Squad detonated a suspicious item in Boston’s Financial District.
The problem? IT WAS A GODS-BEDAMNED TRAFFIC COUNTER. Property of the City of Boston.
What’s next? The fountain in the Boston Commons? Statues, whose gazes hide dark explosive secrets? Oh, I know! Whole f***king BUILDINGS. Cars. Dogs. The fiberglass cows on Boylston.
Look, I respect the need for law enforcement. I respect the need to keep the public safe. But when you are detonating CITY F***KING PROPERTY you have to turn around and look at how far past idiotic paranoia you’ve come into the asinine twilight zone of insanity.
The only thing that would make this shameful piece of idiocy even worse is if Menino came out and said the cops did a good job because… you know, those traffic counters could be hiding whole teams of extremists or something.
I haven’t seen confirmation from any news agency that this was indeed a traffic counter. But, if it does turn out to be that the City blowed up something that they attached in the first place, that would be hysterical.
WBZT is concurring on the traffic counter description.
http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_059122735.html
I wonder if the BTD has any hippies that Mayor Mushmouth can trot out to scream at and lock up… ?
ROFL!!!!
My friend bac in Oz, Steve Martinez, did a quick cartoon after I told him about this.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/practicecactus/suspicious.jpg
That’s awesome! Think he’d mind if we post the image on the main blog post?
You know you’re a laughingstock when stuff like this pops up… http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/03/boston-police-blow-up-suspicious-looking-man.html
It’s cool. I asked him before I posted it. His only comment was “aw, if I’d known anyone would care, I’d have taken more time with it”. But I , personally, think the sketchy immediacy makes it awesomerer.