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The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist
- grsites 16y agoSounds like the shotgun-collar trap in Saw III.
- j_baker 16y agoOr one of the slave collars from Fallout 3.
- burgerbrain 16y agoOr one of those slave collars from practically countless other pieces of SF. Not exactly a new idea ;)
- carussell 16y agoWhen I saw the first Saw film, I was convinced that it was directly inspired by this incident.
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- bherms 16y agoDefinitely a crazy story and will likely remain one of the most perplexing "unsolved crimes" of our time. On a related note, though, it seems Hollywood is making a comedy based on this. Yes, you read that right, a COMEDY. I'm not usually offended by things, but I think that's kind of sick. The movie is called 30 Minutes or Less and stars Danny McBride and Jesse Eisenberg.
- leftnode 16y agoWhile it's not everyone's cup of tea, dark comedy is a very popular form of comedy, and a way that a lot of people deal with tragedy.
- tjarratt 16y agoAbsolutely true. Steve Martin's "Novocaine" was a dark comedy that made fun of the issue of dentists that take advantage of their patients, sexually, while under anesthesia (and it covered drug abuse as well). That was a serious concern too, but they made a (relatively) good film out of it. I'd say the issue is less the making of a dark comedy, and more that Americans have a hard time, in general, of coping with a tragedy. When is it acceptable to make a comedy about someone's death? Is it acceptable if they were complicit in the act?
- bherms 16y agoI absolutely love dark comedy generally, but for some reason the idea of a comedy about this just rubs me the wrong way. I'm not sure why, but that's my reaction to it.
- slouch 16y agoall on one page: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/all/1
- presidentender 16y agoI am reminded of 'Fargo': a convoluted scheme which comes to no good for anyone and causes a great deal of hardship along the way.
- burgerbrain 16y agoYa, me too. ducks
- tjarratt 16y agoHear me out for a second. I really don't understand this mentality of "yeah me too". It's great to be heard and all, but why contribute anything if you have nothing to contribute. Furthermore, if you have nothing to contribute, why offer <i>ducks</i> to point this out and make it obvious that you're trying to avoid something?
- tptacek 16y agoHe's making a joke about the dialect used by the characters in Fargo.
- lupatus 16y agoI was living in Erie when this happened. My roommate worked in the same shopping complex as the bank, in fact. I still feel sick to my stomach every time I think about this. This is the reason why I won't ever become a pizza delivery person.
- rosstafarian 16y agoyeah i too have a fear of being lured to a remote location while delivering two small sausage and pepperoni pies, having a bomb strapped to my neck then forced to rob a bank and go on a scavenger hunt afterwards only to be blown up after finding the first clue, with the bomb squad arriving 3 minutes later.
- sdfdfgsdfgh 16y agoYou have to be very good at Greek to come up with a word for that particular phobia!
- rexreed 16y agoPiemuggacollarbombaphobia
- danbmil99 16y agoYes, I hate it when that happens
- ars 16y agoI feel bad for the guy having to die with his hands handcuffed behind his back. I mean - at least let him try to disarm his own bomb, he has nothing to lose. Tell him you'll shoot him if he moves from the area, but otherwise back away and let him try.
- krolley 16y agoI can't see how that would have helped anyone. He would have simply struggled to remove the locked collar, if not run into a crowd of bystanders before the bomb went off.
- iuguy 16y agoClickable full page version: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/all/1