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(io9) Asinine Two teenagers charged with conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism after defacing playing cards and leaving them at various stores. The cards had "Joker" written on them and "police considered them threatening"   (io9.com) divider line 111
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Rott [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:21:11 PM  
Something broke in the collective brains of America on Sept. 11.

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:30:18 PM  
I dont want to go all crazy on everybody but seems more like littering to me

 
scruffy1 [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:34:11 PM  
If the judge doesn't throw out this case then there is even less hope for America.

 
bulok 2008-08-16 09:37:10 PM  
Is this an appropriate use of the "Why so serious?" meme?

 
bulok 2008-08-16 09:37:50 PM  
Appropriate time to use the "Why So serious" meme is what i meant to say.

 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:42:06 PM  
The terrorists have won.

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:47:00 PM  
Rott: Something broke in the collective brains of America on Sept. 11.

That's all it takes really, just one bad day.

/obscure

 
muzzrphochr 2008-08-16 09:47:18 PM  
There are times when Police seek to instill fear to youngsers using the extent of their abilities, among other tricks. Lets hope this is one of those circumstances. That is a rather harsh charge.

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 09:52:36 PM  
muzzrphochr: There are times when Police seek to instill fear to youngsers using the extent of their abilities, among other tricks. Lets hope this is one of those circumstances. That is a rather harsh charge.

I wouldn't be surprised if the cops meant it. that's just the sort of nation we're becoming - harsh, intolerant and authoritarian. welcome to the future.

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:03:17 PM  
put the bongs down policemen. They did nothing wrong.

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:05:06 PM  
Weaver95: That's all it takes really, just one bad day.

/obscure

pics.livejournal.com

 
benlonghair [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:21:54 PM  
Rott: Something broke in the collective brains of America on Sept. 11.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1755

Our founding fathers knew these people, and warned us against them. We are selling off our freedoms to get what our partially retarded president (and really the rest of the government, but hey, we keep electing them) calls security.

Give me liberty over security any day.

 
FloydA [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:25:23 PM  
Weaver95: Rott: Something broke in the collective brains of America on Sept. 11.

That's all it takes really, just one bad day.

/obscure

Alan Moore is never obscure.

/Or if he is, then the terrorists have truly won.

 
Grrr 2008-08-16 10:35:17 PM  
Being continually concerned about what the police consider to be "threatening" is exactly what I had in mind when I voted all those times. They are, after all, to be obeyed...

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 10:44:23 PM  
Could we really get a series of batteries hooked up to the Founding Father's graves? They're spinning so much they've got to be producing a lot of power that we are wasting.

 
mr_a [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:01:19 PM  
FTFA "...just a prank that got out of control".


No, the prank was well under control. It is Police Chief Martin's men who are out of control.

 
hollahollaholz 2008-08-16 11:05:16 PM  
HappyHarryHardOn: I dont want to go all crazy on everybody but seems more like littering to me

this.

 
hollahollaholz 2008-08-16 11:05:54 PM  
HappyHarryHardOn: I dont want to go all crazy on everybody but seems more like littering to me

And omg pump up the volume was such a great movie.

 
Ryan2065 2008-08-16 11:26:22 PM  
I guess they could be charged if the guys wrote they were going to rob the store or something like that on the cards...

Link (new window)

 
dustman81 [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:31:30 PM  
i87.photobucket.com

 
Ryan2065 2008-08-16 11:35:01 PM  
Ryan2065: I guess they could be charged if the guys wrote they were going to rob the store or something like that on the cards...

Link (new window)

Sorry, this was the link to "act of terrorism" Link

 
Makh [TotalFark] 2008-08-16 11:50:54 PM  
If only someone could produce some Mooninite lite brite picture.

 
Javacrucian [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 12:03:55 AM  
The teenagers "were real remorseful. They said they never had any intentions of harming anybody," [Police Chief JC] Martin said after talking with them. He said it appeared to be "a prank that kind of got out of hand."

Yes, it did get out of hand - the moment you charged them.

 
SilentStrider [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 12:17:27 AM  
Makh: If only someone could produce some Mooninite lite brite picture.

now that was a great prank. And the fact that those guys were un-repentant made it even better.

 
Party Boy [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 12:54:00 AM  
i18.photobucket.com

 
Cagey B [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 01:29:30 AM  
More disturbing than the charges is the lack of anyone's willingness to do anything about it where this is happening.

Cops are either under the city, where the mayor and/or council appoints the police chief, or they're sheriff's deputies, in which case the sheriff is directly elected. In any case, there's an elected body who oversees this numbskullery. And they'll go to sleep tonight knowing their jobs are safe.

 
Hibno 2008-08-17 01:34:51 AM  
Just wait until these kids fill two ferries with explosives.

 
Gurlugon 2008-08-17 01:42:37 AM  
They might have started making pencils disappear.

 
I_AM_M 2008-08-17 01:43:32 AM  
cops are ball sucking pussy criminals hiding behind a badge.

 
suicide 2008-08-17 01:43:38 AM  
i219.photobucket.com

 
EL_FABREZ 2008-08-17 01:44:20 AM  
Who the fark do people think they are that terrorists are specifically targeting them?

I'm infinitely more worried about dying of the flu or an embolism than some hadji, or other wise, killing me.

 
Bigmada [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 01:45:15 AM  
img520.imageshack.us

Throw at at them.

 
I_AM_M 2008-08-17 01:45:52 AM  
Come on, benlonghair, take it all the way.

Give me liberty or give me death.

/ya wuss

 
skinink 2008-08-17 01:51:47 AM  

"Don't get me wrong; I'm sure that the cards were upsetting to those that found them (even though all they apparently said was "Joker"), and I agree that they should be charged with something for placing them. But conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism? Really?"


And I think the blogger is wrong in that the kids should be charged with something for placing the cards. Does every little incident have to end up in the criminal justice system? These adults should have their adult lives tainted over a stupid movie prank? And then what, they have problems getting a job, taking airplane flights, etc.


It seems like a race between the U.S. and the U.K. in which one can inflict the most nonsense on its citizens. This is what it must've been like when everything was going on in Northern Ireland.


 
Fark It [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 01:54:25 AM  
Well what can they do? Today they're defacing a deck of Bicycles, tomorrow they'll be car-bombing judges, blowing up hospitals, assassinating the police commissioner, and making terrorist demands of an entire city.

 
roadkillontheweb 2008-08-17 01:56:04 AM  
I feel safer!
good night, I am going to sleep good tonight knowing the police force is looking out for my safety?

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 01:58:09 AM  
EL_FABREZ: Who the fark do people think they are that terrorists are specifically targeting them?

"Hakim, today you will martyr yourself against..."

*flips through phone book*

"...Herbert and Gertrude Gundersen at 101 E. Clover St., Des Moines, Iowa. Allah Ackbar!"

 
vtbutters 2008-08-17 01:58:39 AM  
It's worth pointing out that Christiansburg is just down the road from Virginia Tech.

Yea, we've got a full load of crazies in southwest Va

 
Begoggle 2008-08-17 02:03:09 AM  
I_AM_M: cops are ball sucking pussy criminals hiding behind a badge.

Except the ones who help you when you need it.
Be sure not to call any next time you need help.
I'll enjoy reading about your obituary on Fark.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 02:09:49 AM  
This is not supposed to be a documentary:

ccinsider.comedycentral.com

 
whizbang [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 02:09:50 AM  
the cards were upsetting to those that found them (even though all they apparently said was "Joker")

Apparently, the Joker or Fool card means Madness and Bewilderment, not Killing of Paranoid Fundies.

i526.photobucket.com

 
Falcc 2008-08-17 02:11:52 AM  
whizbang: the cards were upsetting to those that found them (even though all they apparently said was "Joker")

Apparently, the Joker or Fool card means Madness and Bewilderment, not Killing of Paranoid Fundies.

Just proves that tarot really is prophetic. Bewildered and mad perfectly describes my mood on hearing about this.

 
chaoswolf 2008-08-17 02:13:28 AM  
Begoggle,

While I don't agree with I_AM_M, I don't agree with you, either.

The cops are nothing but the brute squad. Sometimes they get paid to be on your side, sometimes they get paid to be against you.

I won't be calling them for "help" any time soon.

 
starsrift 2008-08-17 02:13:42 AM  
benlonghair: Rott: Something broke in the collective brains of America on Sept. 11.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1755

Our founding fathers knew these people, and warned us against them. We are selling off our freedoms to get what our partially retarded president (and really the rest of the government, but hey, we keep electing them) calls security.

Give me liberty over security any day.

That's Pre-9-11 thinking, right there.

 
whizbang [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 02:24:49 AM  
Falcc: Just proves that tarot really is prophetic.

Locations targeted:
- Wal-Mart
- Kmart
- the windshield of a vehicle parked at the town's Dairy Queen
- auto parts store

Obviously a sinister plan to attack these fine American institutions.

i526.photobucket.com

 
Z1P2 2008-08-17 02:28:12 AM  
If they vandalized cards belonging to the stores, then I don't really give a damn if they are given the death penalty for it. I have no sympathy for vandals. But the article made it sound like they bought the cards, wrote on them, then left them in the store. If that's the case, they should give the death penalty to every cop and prosecutor pursuing the case against them.

 
yarnothuntin 2008-08-17 02:29:02 AM  
To be fair, the Jokers did look wild.

 
bel4sucks 2008-08-17 02:33:40 AM  
benlonghair
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1755


"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin

 
whizbang [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 02:39:16 AM  
bel4sucks: benlonghair
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1755

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"I like to get handjobs from the hotties at the Hellfire Club in Paris."
-- Benjamin Franklin

 
lajimi [TotalFark] 2008-08-17 02:42:10 AM  
Lesson to be learned here: ANY question a cop asks you...The answer is "LAWYER" no matter what they ask.

 
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