If people are stupid and overreact that is their problem.

Why were there kids in school on a Saturday anyway?

Wait, cylindrical objects taped to lampposts RIGHT AFTER A LEAK? Of course that spells bombs... morans

Car_Ramrod: Oh jesus christ. What kind of nation are we turning into?

"You tell me why they would choose the eve of 9/11 to tape devices by duct tape to poles in schools without telling anybody," Randa said. "It's crazy. For seven hours, we and the Romeoville Police Department have been running ourselves ragged."

Maybe because not everything revolves around 9/11, and they didn't expect you to act like idiots. Just an idea.

Because obviously, a terrorist would pick an anniversary of a previous attack to make a second attack. Haven't you been watching Glenn Beck!???


/okay, that second sentence was physically painful for me to type

neverforgetlitebrite.jpg in 3..2..1

Sivart832z: Why were there kids in school on a Saturday anyway?

this is the same article they ran yesterday, they kept updating the article during the day, and today, they added "- on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary -"

that's why the date shows today, but the story happened yesterday

(damnit it! ... well mine is at least in color)

After the San Bruno incident I don't think any gas company will doddle around waiting to fix known leaks, at least until we forget about it.

calbert: Sivart832z: Why were there kids in school on a Saturday anyway?

this is the same article they ran yesterday, they kept updating the article during the day, and today, they added "- on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary -"

that's why the date shows today, but the story happened yesterday

Ah, I see, so really, they added these things on the eve of the eve of 9/11.

So, just to be clear, it's bad place air monitors on light poles on the eve of the eve of 9/11, but it's OK on the eve of the eve of the eve of 9/11, right?

/so confusing...

Sivart832z: Why were there kids in school on a Saturday anyway?

That's not a hair question.

Also,...

came for the mooninites

son am proud

/OMG THINGS WERE BEING PLACED ON THINGS
//BOMBS

Talk about sensitive receptors!

holy crap are people stupid. The damn thing has clearly something to do with air. Pressure gage.. some sort of valve, a tank. Doesn't look anything like a bomb. My guess might not have been air quality measurement device, but the thing is clearly for use with air/gas.

I always wonder in these situations if there is someone that says "What might these be besides a bomb?" and if they are promptly bound, gagged and beaten with a phone book by the rest.

Am I allowed to be bitter about submitting this minutes after it hit the Chicago news yesterday with a far wittier headline?

/not butt hurt
//less than 5% etc.
///also I am on the "watch" list

The terrorists have won, we are scared shatless of everything!!! Buy a suitcase at goodwill and sit it on the road tommorrow. Cardboard box is nearly as good.

also, there are more details surrounding this story


on Thursday, an oil pipeline broke underground in the area of these schools. Pipeline owners were working all day and night Thursday to resolve it. The school district's transportation garage (where all of the school buses are) is located a few blocks from where the pipeline ruptured.

The school decided to cancel AM bus service for Friday, on Friday morning, due to a combination of pipeline service vehicles blocking roads, emergency vehicles (EPA) blocking roads, and poor air quality in the immediate vicinity (and crude on some roadways).

most of the surrounding schools were not at full capacity.

The first device was discovered (and with the 'no buses running issue'), that school decided to cancel the whole day (it was still pretty early).

No other device, at that first location was found, and that device was trying to be identified.

Classes continued at the other schools (running at about 50-60 percent capacity).

10am-1pm. similar devices found at other locations (with still no word of identification of original device, but they knew they were all alike) call went out to other schools to engage in soft lockdown: teachers keep students in current classroom, or proceed to designated safe zones. Nobody is allowed to enter or leave.

1:45pm identification and ownership of original device is made, thus allowing id and ownership of all devices.

2pm lockdown canceled, school day resumes to normal.

supposedly, at no time, was the school district, the individual schools, village officials, or the police department notified about the appearance and placement of the devices.

some are blaming the EPA, some are blaming the pipeline company.

making matters worse, the parents started arriving at the schools to pick up their kids (after seeing/hearing news reports/rumors about bomb threats (understandably so, but that flies right in the face of lockdown procedures).

The initial rumors were that bomb-like devices were attached to flag poles at the schools, very panic inducing words, more so than 'unknown device attached to utility poles'


/csb
//may know someone who works at one of the schools

"crude on some roadways)."

lol

What a bunch of Pussies. Of course, terrorists would want to blow up farking lightpoles. Next they'll go after pine trees.



February 8, 2007

Never forget, the day the twins fell

School officials are a stupid, panicky lot. More so than they need to be to defend their young charges. They kinda remind me of fainting goats (new window).

I recall my first week working as a substitute teacher, the school went into lockdown. The only information I was given was that there was an armed man on campus making threats. Turned out, someone reported a black guy about 2 miles from the school, and an unloaded gun in the vicinity. The administration flipped out and shut everything down for several hours based on that one report.

// Why yes, the area I live in has some very thinly veiled race issues, why do you ask?

Ironic tag would have been appropriate. Isn't ironic, you try to protect the public and public things your airsafety monitors are bombs.

Car_Ramrod: Oh jesus christ. What kind of nation are we turning into?

"You tell me why they would choose the eve of 9/11 to tape devices by duct tape to poles in schools without telling anybody," Randa said. "It's crazy. For seven hours, we and the Romeoville Police Department have been running ourselves ragged."

Maybe because not everything revolves around 9/11, and they didn't expect you to act like idiots. Just an idea.

Just in to point out - They are in charge of Children - you know, Snowflakes.
It just wouldn't do to be found sipping a martini while the possibility of mechanized obliteration of the aforementioned is imminent.

" What was I doing when the Lex Luthor device exploded? Why, I was playing Farmville"

So while you think it's over reaction in reality they are (oddly enough) doing a decent job. Go figure eh?

Alatar: School officials are a stupid, panicky lot. More so than they need to be to defend their young charges. They kinda remind me of fainting goats (new window).

I recall my first week working as a substitute teacher, the school went into lockdown. The only information I was given was that there was an armed man on campus making threats. Turned out, someone reported a black guy about 2 miles from the school, and an unloaded gun in the vicinity. The administration flipped out and shut everything down for several hours based on that one report.

// Why yes, the area I live in has some very thinly veiled race issues, why do you ask?

You get a group of women together, and how could you be surprised at the result? Of course if they were men, they'd just rape the children.

illicit: Because obviously, a terrorist would pick an anniversary of a previous attack to make a second attack. Haven't you been watching Glenn Beck!???

You mean like the bombing of the Alfred P Murray Federal Building?

There was a priest outside the local mosque today ready to intercept any misunderstandings I'm certain.

Mi-Go brain cases?

illicit:Because obviously, a terrorist would pick an anniversary of a previous attack to make a second attack.

Seriously. That's almost as crazy as picking a target that had been targeted just a few years before. They would never do that again. What a bunch of boobs! Let's point and laugh at them.

pops

Captain Steroid: See, this is why, whenever I duct-tape mysterious cylindrical objects of indeterminate origin to objects near schools, police stations, or the occasional Federal building, I always make sure to write NOT A BOMB! on the sides with a Sharpie.

This is a prime example of why you are highlighted..

Also I for one am glad that it wasn't a geocache in a lamp post this time....

Car_Ramrod: Oh jesus christ. What kind of nation are we turning into?

"You tell me why they would choose the eve of 9/11 to tape devices by duct tape to poles in schools without telling anybody," Randa said. "It's crazy. For seven hours, we and the Romeoville Police Department have been running ourselves ragged."

Maybe because not everything revolves around 9/11, and they didn't expect you to act like idiots. Just an idea.


because it's somebodies job. civil defense . we pay someone in our city to look for this type of shiat.

leadmetal: holy crap are people stupid. The damn thing has clearly something to do with air. Pressure gage.. some sort of valve, a tank.

Pressure gauge, huh? Could be set to detonate when the utility pole reaches a certain altitude.

illicit: Car_Ramrod: Oh jesus christ. What kind of nation are we turning into?

"You tell me why they would choose the eve of 9/11 to tape devices by duct tape to poles in schools without telling anybody," Randa said. "It's crazy. For seven hours, we and the Romeoville Police Department have been running ourselves ragged."

Maybe because not everything revolves around 9/11, and they didn't expect you to act like idiots. Just an idea.

Because obviously, a terrorist would pick an anniversary of a previous attack to make a second attack. Haven't you been watching Glenn Beck!???


/okay, that second sentence was physically painful for me to type

Glenn Beck aside, I think the more important question here would be: "Why would terrorists want to blow up light poles in Romeoville?" I sort of doubt that your average AL-Qaede operative could even name any American cities beyond NY, LA and Washington DC let alone want to blow it up and even if some terrorist did want to feel like blowing up something in that particular area on that particular date, why would they not brother to hide or camouflage their bombs at all? I would also like to know how the people came to the conclusion that the devices looked like bombs.

How long before cars aren't allowed in a school parking lot?
A terrorist doesn't need a pole to tape stuff to.
The real truth becomes more apparent when one looks at Isreal. Even with all their security they can't stop a determined terrorist.
Our anti terrorist measures are almost comical. It is a horse and pony show to pacify the masses. The drug trade across our southern boarder could just as well have been bomb making material. But then again one can buy that stuff locally. The US isn't a magical save haven. There are millions upon millions of unprotected potential targets in the US. As a matter of odds everyone is quite safe at this time. The redeeming fact is that US doesn't have a strong presents of domestic terrorists. Foreign visitors and illegal immigration are a main battle fronts to keep terrorist out of the US.
Harassing US citizens really isn't necessary to combat terrorist.

Loki-L: I would also like to know how the people came to the conclusion that the devices looked like bombs.

ROUND CYLINDERS + DUCT TAPE= BOMB...DUH!

/Watch MacGuyver

GaryPDX: Sloth_DC: leadmetal: holy crap are people stupid. The damn thing has clearly something to do with air. Pressure gage.. some sort of valve, a tank.

Pressure gauge, huh? Could be set to detonate when the utility pole reaches a certain altitude.

Yea, there's a hundred ways to monkey that. This really was dumb not notifying people/departments.

Why do you hate Socialism?

And maybe these naive scared little true-Murricans could be a little less paranoid?

charkocu: illicit:Because obviously, a terrorist would pick an anniversary of a previous attack to make a second attack.

Seriously. That's almost as crazy as picking a target that had been targeted just a few years before. They would never do that again. What a bunch of boobs! Let's point and laugh at them.

pops

Yeah, but they botched the first attempt, so it wasn't a stretch to consider they'd try again at some point.

Car_Ramrod: Oh jesus christ. What kind of nation are we turning into?

"You tell me why they would choose the eve of 9/11 to tape devices by duct tape to poles in schools without telling anybody," Randa said. "It's crazy. For seven hours, we and the Romeoville Police Department have been running ourselves ragged."

Maybe because not everything revolves around 9/11, and they didn't expect you to act like idiots. Just an idea.

This. Well said.

Hey people, remember. It's not all about you, and it's not all about 9/11. Even on 9/11. So STFU & GBTW, nothing to see here.

It's actually an oil leak from a Canadian pipeline, cutting about a third of the oil the US gets from Canada every week.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6893UN20100911