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On Friday afternoon, a New York motorist called police with a tip about a potential terror threat. Seems someone was hauling a suspicious-looking object — it resembled a torpedo — on the highways around the city.
Before long 30 agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were searching for this potential menace.
Even Coast Guard cutters in the area were on the lookout, since the thing looked sort of like a boat.
Originally posted by spirit_horse
Typical moronic activity at the DHS. I will bet that when the sub was built, they would have never dreamed that it would be a threat to the US Government, or at least reported as one in the year 2013. I sure hope they don't see any septic pumping trucks around. They would think it was a dirty bomb (pun intended)
edit on 4/6/13 by spirit_horse because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LastStarfighter
reply to post by fnpmitchreturns
The DHS probably has civilians who are relatives or friends of employess call in stuff so that the DHS has "threats" to respond to so they can continue to have their budget increased yearly so they can annoy the US citizen.
The DHS should be focusing on the IRS.
Originally posted by spyder550
Originally posted by LastStarfighter
reply to post by fnpmitchreturns
The DHS probably has civilians who are relatives or friends of employess call in stuff so that the DHS has "threats" to respond to so they can continue to have their budget increased yearly so they can annoy the US citizen.
The DHS should be focusing on the IRS.
Do you really really believe that you need to get out and visit reality. For one thing that would just be dumb. For another thing there are enough paranoid wackos gladly call all the time.
Originally posted by fnpmitchreturns
What the hell is wrong with this picture? First a false report about something the caller clearly didn't even have a clue what he/she was looking at. Are the American people that sorry or is it just isolated pockets of morons here and there?
Originally posted by dave_welch
Funny, that thing looks nothing like a torpedo...
Also, Does anybody really think that someone would transport a bomb right out in the open like that? I mean, it didn't even have a tarp over it. Some people...