I saw footage which showed them using bomb disposal thing to blow up one of the devices. Guess they blew up first one they looked at as added precaution, but yeah they detonated something, it didnt detonate itself. I think you are right to draw attention to the language used with this sort of coverage, what can I say, Im not enjoying the style of this millenium so far, can I have a refund please?
Someone was talking about the people who are in legal trouble over this, from what I understand the company doing it was one of those 'guerrilla marketing' types that is used to doing non-traditional marketing with strange things in strange places. Ruperts post was great so I dont feel the need to rant much more. Suspicious packages hasnt been the focus of our attention in the UK in this terror era, it was so much a part of the last one, but this time suicide bombers or poison plots seem to have been the main fodcus of attention. Our media has been in terror mode in recent days too, over arrests of people here who, from what Ive heard, are suspected of planning to kidnap a british muslin soldier and murder him. Unlike Rupert I dont live in London or any big city, but a town, so my exposure to exploding threats is more limited. The closest I get to the war on terror is that I live in a part of town that suffers from some underlying racial tension between whites and asians, many of whom are Muslims. The mosque is just down the road from my house, and I have no problems whatsoever with the diverse community that surrounds me, I like it, though in truth I am rather disconnected from it all. The problem is that there seems to be enough other people who are bothered, to cause problems every once in a while. Its usually young people, bored youths messing with eachother. But once every few years in recent times, its boiled over along racial lines, resulting in lots of people fighting on the streets in big gangs, along with occasional random beatings. I do not welcome the sound of the police helicopter. And I feel rather powerless to do anything meaningful to slow this terrible tide. I usually rant if someone says racist stuff, but Im never sure what it does, does it make them any less racist or just stop them saying such things in my presence? So anyway every time there is an over-reaction in the 'war on terror', my heart sinks as it adds fuel to some nasty fire of racism that tragically smoulders in the UK. Hopefully it will never come to anything really tragic, no matter how much certain sectors of the press really try to stoke the fire, but Ive no way to know. Video images of many kinds have a lot of catching up to do if they are to play a positive role in the war on terror - though we usually dont like to dwell too long on comparisons of the horrors of death on video to videoblogging, events ranging from saddams hanging to various beheadings, troops getting killed or doing wrong things in Iraq, to 9/11 itself, have been central elements of the era. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "missbhavens1969" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anybody care to comment that the CNN coverage of this incident had > footer screentext declaring "Suspicious Package Found Earlier Was > Detonated". > > Well, that's pretty messed up right there, because, ummm, it was a > Lite-Brite and not a bomb. > > Perhaps that most venerated news service really meant "Suspicious > Lite-Brite Found Earlier Was Unplugged?". > > > Bekah > > > > > --- In [email protected], "taulpaulmpls" > <taulpaulmpls@> wrote: > > > > http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html > > > > Anybody care to comment on the state of our nation, when a Adult Swim > > character shuts down a bridge? > > > > *eyes roll* How these lightboards were mistaken for bombs, is beyond > > my comprehension. > > >
