wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jason Spock <jedi_spock@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Great Warning to everyone. Scientists say that YellowStone
> > National Park is a giant Volcano that erupts once every 600,000
> > years. Now, 620,000 years have passed. A massive blow-up is
> > long overdue. Such an eruption will cover half the hemisphere
> > with ash.
>
> As long as its the half with America in it, no big loss. :-)
>
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U R Wrong. We R smart:
News Rack Destroyed in 'Bomb' Scare
By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
latimes.com
April 29, 2006
A newspaper promotion for the upcoming movie "Mission: Impossible
III" misfired Friday when a Los Angeles County sheriff's arson squad
blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.
Instead, the Los Angeles Times coin machine near the intersection of
Sand Canyon and Soledad Canyon roads in Santa Clarita held a digital
musical device designed to play the "Mission: Impossible" theme song
when the rack's door was opened.
The incident came amid several bomb reports made by newspaper
buyers startled to see a red plastic box with wires protruding from
it attached to the interiors of racks.
In West Los Angeles, federal police at the Veterans Affairs Medical
Center called in the sheriff's bomb squad after a newspaper buyer
spied the 6-inch-long, 2 1/2 -inch-wide box and its wires.
By then, deputies were aware that the box was a musical, not
explosive, device.
Times officials said the devices were placed in 4,500 randomly
selected news boxes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in a venture
with Paramount Pictures designed to turn the "everyday news rack
experience" into an "extraordinary mission."
"In this day and age, anything a little odd-looking arouses
suspicion," said Times Publisher Jeff Johnson.
The devices weren't supposed to be seen by the public, said John
O'Loughlin, The Times' senior vice president for planning. "This was
the least intended outcome. We weren't expecting anything like this."
Newspaper executives said the "singing news racks" were the first of
their kind. They are scheduled to be in operation through May 7. The
Tom Cruise movie is to open May 5.
The bomb squad excitement was unexpected, said Mark Kurtich, senior
vice president of operations for The Times. "I think Paramount is
pretty happy about it."
Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Mike LaPerruque, now
security manager for The Times, said law enforcement agencies around
Los Angeles were advised Friday afternoon that the devices were a
movie promotion and not dangerous.
"I got a call from one agency even as I was on the phone making the
notifications," he said.
"With the wires leading to the micro-switch on the news rack doors,
I can easily see how someone might have misconstrued it as an
improvised explosive device," LaPerruque said.
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Times staff writers Hector Becerra and Gregory W. Griggs contributed
to this report.
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