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From his previous blog post, they could tell it was a game: “Except… the person who did the inspection did have some concerns about one thing. There were some…

From his previous blog post, they could tell it was a game: “Except… the person who did the inspection did have some concerns about one thing. There were some… whiteboards? And some… drawings on them?” “Ah shit! Yeah I totally forgot about those! You mean the nuclear attack thing, right?” “Yeah, that’s right.” “Yeeeeeah…. Sorry! You see…. It’s for this game I was making! It’s like, a web thing and it uses Google Maps to simulate a nuclear war.” “Ahhh, okay! We kind of thought it had something to do with gaming!” Apparently somebody was still worried about the idea of a realistic nuclear attack simulation game. Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school.

pyre 12y ago
> Apparently somebody was still worried about the idea of a realistic nuclear attack simulation game. Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school. This is even more ridiculous. The kid could reasonably obtain weapons and bring them to school. The likelihood of obtaining an ICBM is nil.
- burkaman 12y ago
  Sort of, but it's hard for me to get angry at the people who called the police in either case. Yeah, they should have more common sense, but the police are the ones with responsibility here. If you're scared you're scared, and you should be able to call the police for pretty much any reason and expect them to deal with it rationally and professionally. In this case, if the police just show up, look at the whiteboard, laugh it off and leave, then I would say no harm done. Whoever called them feels safer, and everyone else has at worst been inconvenienced for a half hour.
  - pyre 12y ago
    I agree that the police shoulder the responsibility to say, "this guy is not a terrorist," and that a failure of common sense on their part is more egregious than on the part of the 'common man.'
mirkules 12y ago
> Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school. Nobody seemed to mention this, and I feel quite old saying its, but "Global Thermonuclear War" was the name of the simulation Matthew Broderick's character played in "War Games", which should have been another clue to the authorities or whoever that it's just a game.
- readerrrr 12y ago
  That is the exact name an actual terrorist would use to cleverly hide his real purpose and thwart the authorities.

pyre 12y ago

> Apparently somebody was still worried about the idea of a realistic nuclear attack simulation game. Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school. This is even more ridiculous. The kid could reasonably obtain weapons and bring them to school. The likelihood of obtaining an ICBM is nil.

burkaman 12y ago
Sort of, but it's hard for me to get angry at the people who called the police in either case. Yeah, they should have more common sense, but the police are the ones with responsibility here. If you're scared you're scared, and you should be able to call the police for pretty much any reason and expect them to deal with it rationally and professionally. In this case, if the police just show up, look at the whiteboard, laugh it off and leave, then I would say no harm done. Whoever called them feels safer, and everyone else has at worst been inconvenienced for a half hour.
- pyre 12y ago
  I agree that the police shoulder the responsibility to say, "this guy is not a terrorist," and that a failure of common sense on their part is more egregious than on the part of the 'common man.'

mirkules 12y ago

> Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school. Nobody seemed to mention this, and I feel quite old saying its, but "Global Thermonuclear War" was the name of the simulation Matthew Broderick's character played in "War Games", which should have been another clue to the authorities or whoever that it's just a game.

readerrrr 12y ago
That is the exact name an actual terrorist would use to cleverly hide his real purpose and thwart the authorities.