5 ms·

Wow that's appalling. Major Scott Pare of the State Police: "Again, this is a serious offense ... I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type o

• ams6110 13y ago
  You have to admit, it is a bit like walking into a lion's den with raw meat pinned to your shirt.
• crusso 13y ago
  Appalling that someone could be stupid enough to walk around with a flashing circuit board and carrying play-doh? It's about as bright as carrying a realistic-looking toy gun into an airport.
  • sp332 13y ago
    Because flashing circuit boards are so often used by terrorists?
    • bjelkeman-again 13y ago
      The police probably watch too much bad Hollywood movies.
    • crusso 13y ago
      Yeah, man, with big red flashing LED clock faceplates and wires of various distinct colors where you have to know the exact color wire to cut in order to deactivate the device. And when that happens, the clock has to stop at exactly 1 second remaining.
      • nonce42 13y ago
        Is there some movie that's source of the cliche of needing to defuse a bomb by cutting the wire with the right color? This is so common a cliche that it must have come from somewhere. And while I'm asking random questions, where did the cliche of the anarchist with the spherical black bomb with a fuse coming out the top come from? This icon was used for system errors on the original Mac, but it must be way older than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(symbol) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(symbol)
        • HeyLaughingBoy 13y ago
          I think it may have originated with Wargames (1983 movie starring Matthew Modine and a pretty good movie at that), but what do I know: I'm old and confused.
          • ams6110 13y ago
            I think you mean Matthew Broderick. Anyway the "cut the blue wire" cliche is a lot older than that. I think I remember it from old Mission Impossible episodes on TV when I was a kid, and those were produced in the late '60s/early '70s.
            • russellsprouts 13y ago
              According to TVTropes, under Wire Dilemma, Get Smart also had an instance of it around the same time, which leads me to believe that it was a widespread trope even then. There is an idea that it originated in WWII, when some German bombs featured overly complicated designs that purposely didn't explode all the time, because a live bomb is arguably worse than an already exploded bomb.
        • bazzargh 13y ago
          Re the spherical bomb: an example from 1946: Tom & Jerry, Trap Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoEdE#t=1m59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMfR_yoEdE#t=1m59 In 1922, Buster Keaton's "Cops" features a bomb-throwing anarchist: http://images.greencine.com/images/article/keaton-bomb-2.jpg http://images.greencine.com/images/article/keaton-bomb-2.jpg (Buster unknowingly lights his cigarette with it) And 1919, a 'Red Scare' cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Come_unto_me,_ye_opprest.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Come_unto_me,_ye_opprest.... But this has got to be older, as this type of throwing bomb was obsolete in the early 1900s. There's the Haymarket affair (1886): http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/justicebomb.jpg http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/just... I'm guessing that's the incident that ties this bomb to political activists. But the design is a lot older; the badge of Napoleon's grenadier guards is an image of this type of bomb, but the round throwing bomb is way, way older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ming_Dynasty_fragmentation_bomb.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ming_Dynasty_fragmentatio... Recognisably the same bomb, from the 14th century.