Mission Accomplished, the terrorists have won.

I guess I better take the monopod in my truck off the gun rack.

Well I better stop carrying my sticks around than. Damn, and I thought steady shots were important.

Though the tales I've heard about pressers and photog fights one would wonder if this professor was on to something.

Stupidity has become strangely universal in the past few years.

wa-geek: Well I better stop carrying my sticks around than. Damn, and I thought steady shots were important.

Though the tales I've heard about pressers and photog fights one would wonder if this professor was on to something.
In other news, Canada will pass a nation-wide ban on sticks.

Blame his "camouflage". If it had been working, they wouldn't have seen him.

...is a tripod

I'm a tripod, and I'm really getting a kick out of some of these replies.

well, my tripod looks more like a turbolaser from star wars than a shotgun, but i can see how it could scare people.

/ especially in areas with a lot of UFO sightings

That there looks to me like one of them 50 caliber tripods.

/If we outlaw tripods, only the digerati will have tripods.

clevershark: Stupidity has become strangely universal in the past few years.

Stupidity is contagious. Also, what doesn't cause a lockdown these days?

Thank heaven they didn't try to pin this on Mooninites again, they're getting a bum rap.

47 is the new 42:
Stupidity is contagious. Also, what doesn't cause a lockdown these days?

I'm waiting for the Ham Sandwich lockdown, then the spread of stupidity will be complete.

Wanted for questioning:

So the question remains, will the guy with the tripod be charged with "gun hoax" like they do with people who leave innocent objects where some idiot thinks it's a bomb?

This doesn't change a thing! Canada's strict gun control laws don't work! Let's tell them what they're doing wrong again!

1776-2008.

Meh..it was a good run.

I just bought a set of metal spikes for my tripod. I live in the city where police assume people taking pictures are criminals (link 3284897). How much money should I set aside for bail?

I never experienced a "lockdown" in K-GradSchool. I thought lockdowns were something that happened in prisons. When did schools officially become prisons?

So why are they still looking for him if they know it was a tripod?

Stupid tag.

Oh noes! He's gonna shoot me...with his camera.

This is what happens in a country with no guns. People don't know what they look like.

lifeboat: Wanted for questioning:

Beat me to something similar.

What a farking dipshiat.

why link to a blog and not link to the article (which is linked IN the blog)

I can haz celebrations!?

/first greenlight
//is a photographer, who doesn't use a tripod

Of course tripods CAN be dangerous.

pounddawg: 1776-2008.

Meh..it was a good run.

Yes, America is at an end because a Canadian professor at a Canadian college can't tell that a Canadian student is carrying a tripod.


/or maybe its at an end because people can't tell America from Canada.

wxboy: This is what happens in a country with no guns. People don't know what they look like.

I happen to know there is at least one gun. Can't promise more, though.

My nickname is tripod and I'm getting a kick outta you know what.

There's a joke in that name somewhere.

wrong one

Anagrammer: pounddawg: 1776-2008.

Meh..it was a good run.

Yes, America is at an end because a Canadian professor at a Canadian college can't tell that a Canadian student is carrying a tripod.


/or maybe its at an end because people can't tell America from Canada.

Maybe.

47 is the new 42:
Stupidity is contagious. Also, what doesn't cause a lockdown these days?

My school went into lockdown because a helicopter was flying overhead. I could see the news station logo on it when I looked out the window. They were reporting on an accident that shutdown a nearby highway.

Clevershark

you beat me to the reference.

RoyBatty: I never experienced a "lockdown" in K-GradSchool. I thought lockdowns were something that happened in prisons. When did schools officially become prisons?

Around 1990. Prior to that they were future taxpayer indoctrination centers.

Read the bio of Horace Mann, one of our pioneer educators.

Farked, damn.

Go Sheridan!


/media arts student
//anyone else go there?

Link farked?

What a waste of breath and bandwidth. If there had been an incident and it was shown that a group of people had seen the person and assumed it was a tripod, not calling in the potential threat, this weather vane's blog post would go along the lines of:

This got me thinking. Why did they professor think a reaction was warranted? Do we need be so bloody self-conscious of looking foolish/suspicious/paranoid as to not call in the police when a student is clearly seen with a "long, tubular object" that could very well turn out to be a gun -- not a tripod, or a document tube. Christ. Hasn't anyone seen Terminator 2? Guns comes in many different shapes and sizes!

^ sorry for the typo

This will finally take some of the heat off Boston.

Silly Canadia-ians.

skinink: Thank heaven they didn't try to pin this on Mooninites again, they're getting a bum rap.

While I adore the fact that you try, not every one is a winner is it?

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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death"-James F. Bymes

"The conquest of fear lies in the moment of its acceptance."-anon