Boston Police Put The Error in Terror (Again)

May 5th, 2007 by Quan Tranh

Boston PD is in the news again for seeing terrorists in innocent objects. Aside from blowing up Cartoon Network advertising and blowing up their own highway department’s traffic counters they seem like a normal police department. Apparently it is illegal to wear stereo wires in Boston. 21-year old Joe Previtera was arrested by the Boston PD and charged with two felonies. He did not make any mention of a bomb, but for some silly reason they charged him with “false report of the location of explosives” and a “hoax device”. I have no idea what idiots are running the Boston PD, but they are the danger to America, not people like Previtera. Sure, he’s free to do all the anti-war protests or whatever he wants to and hopefully without harassment.

So if Previtera didn’t mention a bomb, what exactly constitutes a bomb threat? “It can be implied, with fingers and wires — especially in a heightened state of alert, as we are,” says Officer Michael McCarthy, Boston Police Department spokesman. And McCarthy thinks this is common knowledge, even if the wires are accessories to a costume.

“If he has any questions as to why people think he may’ve had a bomb, then he needs to maybe go back to Boston College to brush up on his public policy. Or at least common sense, but they can’t really teach that there.”

Officer McCarthy needs to get a dose of common sense. I have no idea of what heightened state of alert we are in. The terror alert is Yellow, not Orange or Red. It is always going to be yellow. It is never going to go down. What class do they teach this stuff in at Boston College? I never remember taking any class where we talked about public policy and bomb threats. This shows that Mr. McCarthy is not only an idiot and an ass, but he’s also useless. He could at least inform the public what class we need to take at Boston College to become part of the new world order.

I would never think that having wires as part of a costume would be an implied bomb threat. This is just an excuse to harass innocent citizens and easily throw felonies around as a deterrent if you step out of line. Does this mean that if the police see your iPod headphones you are making a bomb threat? Be afraid if you live in Boston or travel there.

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