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- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+129Ok, so you won't get shot, you'll be taken out into a large field and blown up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+71that guy's the bomb!
- Osiriscky3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55On the moon our shirts are ten times bigger and brighter.
- arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39I think this whole debacle illustrates what the "post 9/11 world" has come to.
Yes, the 9/11 attacks were a horrendous atrocity. And I in no way want to imply that I don't regret the losses that our country suffered that day. The ones who risked their lives to save people inside the WTC and the Pentagon were truly honorable people, and it's a horrible tragedy that so many lost their lives.
(I just wanted to be sure that I disclaimed that first)
One really has to look at something like this ATHF situation and wonder where we are headed. My opinion is that this situation is the epitome of what this "post 9/11 world" has become: and paranoid, fear-mongering, and knee-jerk nation.
Yes, there are terrorists in the world. There have been terrorist as long as there has been cohesive societies. Just because we were the most recent victims of a large-scale attack does't mean that "terrorism" is going to be wiped out. This "War on Terror" is like waging a war on jelousy. Terror is an emotion. Terrorism is an ideal that isn't going to be eradicated. There will always be people who hate others so much that they carry out guerrilla attacks. This is not some kind of country that you can eradicate and then it's over - it's an emotion and that's not going to stop.
Another point that could be considered - what about the effects of the Pearl Harbor attack in WWII? Do we still today freak out when we see a Japanese person? Do we worry when a Japanese person wants to become a airline pilot?
The point I'm trying to make is that people need to get back to the point to where an ad campaign isn't taken for a bomb scare or a terrorist attack. Because in my opinion, if we're so concerned about making sure the "terrorists" don't win, then we need to remember what life was like before 09/11/2001 and realize that we cannot continute this kind of paranoia, we cannot continue this never ending war, we cannot continue to imprision people with no charges or contact with a lawyer or family, we cannot continue the erosion of our freedoms.
Because for what this country has become, it looks to me like the terrorists have already won. - rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39This *IS* terrorism, and I'm talking about the response that has generated from the moron public and the bloodthirsty media. The point of terrorism is to physically attack them until they are so paranoid, they are terrified, and will act irrationally towards each other, thus creating a self perpetrating cycle that the terrorist can sit back and watch.
The terrorists have won? Ive never felt that statement to be more relevant than today - vtbarrera, on 02/03/2009, -6/+42I want one so bad, but I'm way too lazy to make one.
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34yea, and if you're trying to blow ***** up, you don't light the bomb up like a *****' christmas tree, saying 'Hey you over-reactive, fear-mongering douche, I'm a bomb. RIGHT HERE!'
- Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37I can't see the wires or batteries... must be ok
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31sorry slipdisc that was not a hair question.
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Think about it, if they could destroy all the flowers, it would demoralize the entire country.
No Flowers = Terrorists Win. - anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33in this post 1-31 world, your still a douchebag
- Sblader5, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33they won't shoot you they will just set the bomb squad on you
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25CAUTION: This thread not to be viewed by the humor impaired.
- Johnagain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Boston sucks. The HSD sucks. We had some of these devices in seattle, but most just got stolen and taken home and used as decor in some potheads apartment. Terrorists put a bomb in the planter out front?? THINK, people! The terrorists are obviously smarter than the people that called the boston bomb squad... Terrorists that build bombs (and survive to place them) put them in places where they will hurt people and buildings - not in the flowerbeds.
- echinatl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20In other news, Iraqi insurgents have began installing rotating spot lights on all IED's.
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20No it doesn't.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's not photoshopped, it's some guy with a lite bright shoved under his shirt.
- spyda45, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Am I the only one who wants to make this and wear it onto an airplane?
- Sneakernets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"Boston: We eat our own farts!"
- mseneschal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You know for Massachusetts to be the most "Liberal" state it has to be the stuffiest, uptight, winey, and ignorant place that I ashamed to live in. The ONLY reason why Massachusetts is blowing this out of proportion is because when they went to the first call and realized it was a light bright they had to continue on there silly excursion in order to save face and to built up a legal defense. Anyone that seems to think they were bombs is absolutely rediculous.You would only see something this up surd is in a terrible 70's batman episode. I congratulate the Boston police dept. doing their job well and the only person that is to blame is our Mayor It’s a amazing that they didn't know about these "suspicious packages" until 5pm yesterday yet they were up for three weeks and the Mayor ADMIT in a earlier interview that they knew about the “Hoax”. Boston is the laughing stock of the country. And by the way to the people that think guerrilla marketing is dead you are so dead wrong look around next time when you walk around the streets of Boston, do you notice flyers pinned all over the place?Yeah that’s a form of guerrilla marketing.
- goeatsmsht, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Suicide Bomber!!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!
"I swear officer, he has a bomb strapped to his chest!!" - counterstriker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11um.....if your going to make a shirt like that at least put some effort into it and make it look as good as the ones in all the videos
- CalipsoII, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14@pants428
Meh, long as he doesn't wipe the raid I have nothing against him
/obligatory - TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It looks really uncomfortable
- jrizzo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Just wait until the bomb squad tries to cut your "red wire"...
- Navitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@arbulus
Preach on brother preach on. Probably the most intelligent thing I've herd anyone say about the past few years in a while. - tsbardella, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I agree Boston Cops over-reacted - I bet they make them sit down to pee in the locker-room.
- darkmotion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Your mum looks photoshopped.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@TortfeasorG - uh, so the circuit board containing the LEDs behind the fabric is not attached to the actual fabric, so why wouldn't it move?
- Leviathan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Willeth:
It's news because the entire city and the American cable news outlets FREAKED THE ***** OUT over some silly little lit up signs, calling them "hoax bombs" and acting almost like it was a real terrorist incident.
They actually detonated the things.
Meanwhile the same "suspicious devices" were present in a dozen other major American cities and no one blinked an eye.
But this is the stupid, paranoid state that is governing US policy these days.
Oh, you think Iraq is any different? We invaded the wrong country and half the douchebags in the USA *still* can't figure out that the guys we're fighting in Iraq are, for one thing, not the terrorists who attacked us, and for another, the same guys we're training to "stand up so we can stand down". They haven't figured out that they have, in fact stood up; to us. And then they shoot at us.
So yeah, calling code red over a brightly lit toy that looks nothing like a bomb? Par for the course. - LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Just don't leave it lying around :)
- Willeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hah okay, so I did some research and apparently there was some sort of bomb scare in Boston because of a viral marketing ad that was based on LEDs. Is that right?
I still fail to see how it's news, per se, but at least now I understand the joke. I don't think humour has ever been this much work before. - Rayor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I assume it would be, as long as you disconnected the power first.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4that is a terrible replica
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13oh HELL yea!
man, if all of us ATHF fans weren't a bunch of stoners, we could, like, dude!
(make a ***** of these and rally outside the courthouse) - MrFoof82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Heh, I had a similar idea on Thursday, that I attempted to shop around to a few retail representatives.
Lite Brite board, with Err flipping the bird, and spelled out in pegs is a parody of the commercial theme, "Lite Brite! Lite Brite! What will you blow up tonight?". No LEDs, but standard silk screening
Hot Topic was genuinely interested, but A) wanted significant quantities, at B) aggressive pricing with shrinkage protection with C) the ability to not pay the invoice for 6 months. If I could only spend $10-12K making and shipping shirts and be that patient waiting for a relatively small profit margin (I'd make about $2K before taxes, nevermind the interest accruing on my invested capital)... I live in MA to boot. Maybe I should get 20 printed up and start selling them from my car or on eBay, since I don't like retail now. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Imagine what would happen with a scrolling LED belt buckle..
Ouch. - tylerman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.madfam.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11457/mooninitesbomb.gif
- hartley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wow. for the first time ever the picture was almost exactly what i thought it was by reading the title and subject alone.
this must be a first for digg. - jackcall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Please I would really like to know too. I don't live in the states and I have been busy lately, so I haven't followed US news. I seriously have NO idea AT ALL as to what this is about.
- dext3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Growing up is for boring, old, faggoty-ass adults. Don't you have some responsible thing to go do now? Like get off Digg and go back to work or something?
- Rileyper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reminds me of the Philips Lumalive shirts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd99gyE4jCk - SushiK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, a few years back a home made flashing bracelet nearly got me shot by the only two cops in England with guns.
- Willeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I don't live in the US either. Was there some confusion with an LED shirt and a bomb, or something?
- tisfl37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Aggressive pricing with shrinkage protection..." Sounds like an insurance policy for a male prostitute... o_O
- charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3when you kids grow up a litle, you will understand why this is one big boring story about a stupid cartoon that entertains children.
- jackcall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"you will NEVER know hte touch of a waomn"
No diggers will ever know the touch of a woman, but some of us will actually learn to spell... asshat - boobies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you have 3 weeks to wear that shirt before you get defused
- jonathan95060, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1time for extrodinary rendition for that guy -- off to Syria for you!
- iamdw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1eh, grow up...
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