MY LITTLE PONY BOMB

[defrog]

Yr Movie Plot Terrors headline of the day:

Members of the Orange County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad blew up a 2-foot-high stuffed pony on Tuesday.

Neighbors said the placement of the stuffed toy made it appear suspicious to them.

The toy was found in a cul-de-sac next to a park near Waterbridge Elementary.

Would you like to see it blow up on television?

I’m sure the kid who left it there is in for a big surprise.

"Let that be a lesson to you youngsters: put yr toys away or the police will come and blow them up!"

Key eyewitness quote:

“... My mind started racing with all the terror threats and all the crazy people in the world, how crazy it potentially could have gotten," eyewitness Scott Kilwine said.

And that’s how we lost the War On Terrors.

Dangerous toys,

This is dF

Comments

[absynthe77.livejournal.com]

Having worked in Orange County for two years... yeah, it's full of Skeered White Folks. +5 Money, +4 Cars, -5 Intelligence, -10 Wisdom.

[nebris.livejournal.com]

John Robb talks about FAILURE AS A STRATEGY (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/12/failure-as-a-strategy.html), where one does something like this to create fear and cause your 'target' to waste time and resources.

~M~

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

Interesting, though I agree with Robb's point that it's probably inadvertent – otherwise we'd see more failed attacks with more variety in terms of the targets. That said, apparently it only takes one big success and a handful of failures to get the same result, judging from stories like this. You can shut down a public subway for hours just by leaving an empty backpack on a train seat.