Sounds like somebody's been watching The Kentucky Fried Movie and was too dumb to realize it's not a farking documentary.

Sad.

/but a funny movie

I'm starting to think that local police are just itching for a chance to blow stuff up with a robot. Sure, it's almost guaranteed to look stupid when we find out it was a toy or empty box or whatever, but until then, they get to blow something up with a robot.

This sounds familiar...

Nope, can't place it...

FTFA: "Are you serious?" asked Denver resident Justin Kent, 26, when police stopped him from proceeding down 20th Street. Kent said that he lived just past the closed area, but was told he would have to go around via Park Avenue.

"I can't believe it. This is ridiculous," said Kent.


The only sensible thing in the whole article.

/I'll buy you a beer, Justin Kent

One of these days somebody is going to leave a box full of puppies somewhere.

BOOM! Puppy parts everywhere.

Terrorists don't have to risk collecting explosive materials, building dangerous bombs with twitchy detonation triggers. Just hot glue a bunch of D-Cell batteries to support columns and our police will bring the bang and do the dirty-work.

Denver police are the most violent group of people in the state. I'm surprised they didn't blow up every car closest to it as well, "just to be safe."

Christ people, we're the best educated city in the nation (highest percentage of college graduates), and even WE'RE pulling this shiat? I'm half tempted to pull a night-bright prank to see how much of the city DPD destroys.

This sounds like fun.

Imagine the carnage you could cause in your neighborhood with a few feet of red & blue wires, some old batteries, and some PVC pipe spray painted red.

At this rate, you wouldn't even have to attach them to each other. Just put them in a Target bag and leave it in the middle of the street.

silent sunday: I really do believe "they" have some intel about terrorist attacks that are imminent.

Are "they" the same ones who are "sure" it's going to rain or not this weekend?

Surool: matthardingu: Someone just justified their training and procurement budget for the next three years....

Not really, because behind closed doors the Chief is kicking everyone's ass for the tens of thousands of dollars they wasted over the maximum hidden explosive yield of a M-80. This is the same level of retarded that has schools expelling kids over a 1/4 inch solid plastic gun from a Star Wars action figure. There is no way that tiny object could have endangered the 1/2 mile radius that was evacuated.

If anything, only the public will be fooled into thinking anything intelligent happened there today.

Surool: matthardingu: Someone just justified their training and procurement budget for the next three years....

Not really, because behind closed doors the Chief is kicking everyone's ass for the tens of thousands of dollars they wasted over the maximum hidden explosive yield of a M-80. This is the same level of retarded that has schools expelling kids over a 1/4 inch solid plastic gun from a Star Wars action figure. There is no way that tiny object could have endangered the 1/2 mile radius that was evacuated.

If anything, only the public will be fooled into thinking anything intelligent happened there today.

This is precisely what I was thinking. You cordoned off an entire square mile because you found a six inch doll? Really? If that figure were made of solid anthrax powder, it still couldn't have endangered a square mile. Jehoshaphat.

One year at the Origins game convention, they cordoned off our hotel because someone left a "suspicious bag". Not that every single one of several thousand people there weren't all carrying around a convention bad of swag, no.

philfark412: Noah_Tall: One of these days somebody is going to leave a box full of puppies somewhere.

In Oct of 1986, the San Diego Sheriff's Dept Bomb Squad blew up a box of kittens .

And of course, they named the surviving furry Cuisinart "Lucky."

FTFA: Some pedestrians, unable to reach their vehicles at a lot adjacent to the robot, decided to wait it out at a bar on 20th Street, asking uniformed officers to let them know when the road reopened.

Officers who promptly arrested them for DUI as they got into their cars after the detonation.

/at least I wouldn't be surprised if that's how it went

In Oct of 1986, the San Diego Sheriff's Dept Bomb Squad blew up a box of kittens .

And of course, they named the surviving furry Cuisinart "Lucky."

There's something about tragedy befalling kittens that brings out the insensitivity in people. When I was in college, we had a door off its hinges fall on some kittens. One of then got a good blow to the head and was semi-comatose for a day and then recovered slowly, walking in clockwise circles all day one day and then counter-clockwise the next. My grandmother went down to the basement to check on them, asking "Where's the dippy one? Here, Dippy! Here Dippy!"

My sister freaked out, but my brother and I laughed our asses off, especially since Grandma Myrtle calling the kitten dippy was kind of pot calling the kettle black.

uttertosh: oh, i see that the terrorists have won, after all... (with the help of their friends in the american sensationalist media, of course)

Home of the brave.