The Mayor of Boston
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- spent2000
Is the dumbest f*cktard I have ever heard speak, with his staff and advisors coming in a close 2nd.
If I hear them refer to these lite brites as dangerous devices one more time i am going to flip out.
They remind me of Dick Cheney and Dum Dum Bush.
Even after they know they were wrong, they want some childish revenge on people who are obviously more aware of the society we live in. They got caught being alarmists and look dumb as hell.
They should just face the facts.
They created the FEAR and PANIC, not a cartoon,BTW.
How many years did Orson Wells get in prison for War of The Worlds?
- jevad0
laughing stock of america
- k0na_an0k0
I find it funny that the morons in Boston keep referring to these things as "bomb-like" devices, and they were 'bomb-like" devices because of the circuit board and exposed wiring.
I swear, the next fucking time I'm in Boston and I come across one more fucking lamp post or stop light with it's wire case removed and exposed wires I'm going to have a shit fit too and call the FBI because there are "bomb like" devices inside each street light.
FUCK!
- GreedoLives0
imagine if you're the mayor, and you were responsible for several hundred thousand people. is it better to make a huge stink and be safe or have your bridges blow up and be sorry?
you can say a lot of shit about mumbles menino, but i actually believe the man cares.
- flavorful0
Several hundred thousand?
That's like 'living in in' Boston, there is like 6 million metro residents aren't there?
- jevad0
ah man come on greedo....
- _salisae_0
one theory is that the police saw this as an opportunity to make overtime and then the city of boston realized they could get the federal government to pay if it was declared a national emergency
- jevad0
You've got to be pretty close to off your flipping rocker to make as much out of this as the mayor has
- GreedoLives0
look, the whole thing was stupid, if they'd have some more pop culture savvy people it would've never been blown out of proportion.
but unfortunately 2 planes left boston's airport (which isn't menino's jurisdiction, but still) one summer day six years ago...and i think that really killed menino. he felt in some way responsible for it. so he prolly thought this was gonna be the second biggest shock in his life.
- jevad0
yeah...thats a good point really.
- GreedoLives0
the police doesn't need any excuse to make overtime, it's ridiculous around here. every fricking grocery store has a cop in it.
- version30
is it better to make a huge stink and be safe or have your bridges blow up and be sorry?
GreedoLives
(Feb 2 07, 12:46)ask the kids at the skate park what they think maybe? it is a community afterall. somones grandkids should have recognized it and could've saved someone a lot of face.
anyone see the cover of the boston globe yesterday? i did, i already ordered 3 copies.
- GreedoLives0
also, political grandstanding is a time-honored sport around here, even if you look like the biggest tit in the country.
- grunttt0
WWMWD
what would meatwad do?
- johndiggity0
"Several hundred thousand?
That's like 'living in in' Boston, there is like 6 million metro residents aren't there?
flavorful
(Feb 2 07, 12:49)"there's approx. 600,000 bostonians.
- k0na_an0k0
These were considered WMDs from the start. "Weapons of Meat Destruction"
- _salisae_0
i see your point, greedo. but for analogy's sake, say a mother's child is kidnapped or something horrible .. is it therefore okay for her to ridiculously freak out any time her other child goes outside of her sight?
- GreedoLives0
"greater" boston supposedly has around 4.5 million, but that's dragging a circle up to new hampshire. with brookline, cambridge and somerville, it's prolly around 1.2 mil or so.
not counting the filthy bomb-planting students...
- blastofv0
there are several million in the greater metro area, but anyway –
you have to imagine you're the police captain that gets word of something that could be a bomb under bridges and near T stations... then you have to imagine you're Menino who gets a call from the Boston police department saying there's a potential bomb situation... none of the decision makers were on the street, and none of them will do anything less than assume that it could be the worst.
the only real moron is the first person who unknowingly cried wolf, and set off the post 9-11 paranoia machine.
- GreedoLives0
no, salisae, it's not. but again, political grandstanding is a sport around here and menino has the national spotlight and if he wants to look like an overreactive boob, let him.
In a week or two someone else will do something incredibly stupid and then it'll all slowly fade from memory....