After seeing pictures of these 'devices', which are nothing more than L.E.D.'s and some batteries on a circuit board, I have to say I dont believe a reasonable person can look at such a thing and say 'yeah thats a bomb'. They are so clearly NOT bombs as to be laughable. These things were up for weeks all around the country. Over reaction on the part of Boston PD et al?
2007-01-31 23:00:06 · 11 answers · asked by David W 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Based on some of these answers, and discussion with a family member that lives in the Boston area, I am forced to conclude that we have become truly paranoid, thus the terrorists win.
2007-02-01 00:57:08 · update #1
As of yet, no one knows where the 'tip' came from. I would bet the 'tip' came from the same people who 'planted' them around Boston--I have a feeling Mr. Turner was trying to make a political point here. I hope they're fined big time -- ON TOP of what it cost the City of Boston to respond.
And even if the tip came from a citizen and NOT TBS like I suspect, how many bombs have you examined in your life? I've never seen one--but if I saw a 'device' stuck to the side of a bridge with wires hanging off--I wouldn't get any closer and I would call the authorities.
2007-02-01 09:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by Cherie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO, I don't think there was any over reaction. Bombs today can come in all forms shapes, sizes, and can be very very concealable. And with today's technology it is very possible for this circuit (looking) board to be like a mother board to the detonation device. With electronics being what it is now a days almost nothing is impossible. I think they handled it the right way, as in Better to be safe than sorry. And I don't believe for a minute that anyone except a total idiot will just walk up to a suspected bomb and just pick it up to see if there are wires connected to it. This doesn't sound very bright to me.
2007-01-31 23:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by GRUMPY 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can't really blame the Boston authorities because the US Government has been trying for the past 5 or 6 years to instill fear into the American people. The US goverment claims this works because no one has flown an airplane into a building since 2001, there have been no car bombs, there have beem no suicide bombers. So now state and city officials are forever on the alert for Bombs, and if they can claim they are looking for bombs then they can justify their existence.
2007-02-01 01:10:38 · answer #3 · answered by Waalee 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to a pair quantity, confident. My husband works the Chicago Marathon each year, and he commented final evening that if he'd been doing the comparable interest in Boston, he could have been good in the region of the explosions. of direction this delivered homestead the certainty of the attack in a fashion no longer the rest might have, and that's made me apprehensive touching directly to the opportunity of a copycat attack in October, whilst the Chicago Marathon would be run. apart from, I as quickly as stated as Boston homestead and understand the area the place the explosions happened quite nicely. I lived close by and used to bypass out to cheer on the Marathon runners each and every Patriots' Day. That, too, made the form greater genuine to me. in spite of the undeniable fact that, I knew somebody who died on 9/11, and as undesirable as this tragedy is, it pales in assessment, in spite of the undeniable fact that no longer, I comprehend, for the family contributors of the lifeless and heavily wounded. as nicely, my instincts are telling me that this grew to become into no longer an attack by using foreign places terrorists yet quite the artwork of a homegrown nutcase. That no longer quickly places a diverse complexion on the situation, in spite of the undeniable fact that of direction i should be totally incorrect.
2016-11-23 19:48:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was a publicity stunt all around. Even the bomb scare.
2007-02-04 16:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People were banned for taking Gatorade & toothpaste onboard airplanes last year, because you can supposedly MacGyver them together into a bomb.
I don't think they were over-reacting. Bombs aren't always countdown timers taped to a bunch of dynamite sticks.
2007-01-31 23:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by amg503 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I've heard that they are actually banning Light Brights (kids toy) now, over reacting? its not like some lame *** tunnel is falling in.
2007-02-02 04:40:46 · answer #7 · answered by bubbles 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your right. what a bunch of babys . this is the scare mentality created by george bush but if they were not informed shame on the people who put them there they just did it for the press coverage remember this is free advertising for them. all the pubplicity is free
2007-02-01 00:08:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
All Bostonians should be ashamed and embarrassed right now.
2007-02-02 08:31:28 · answer #9 · answered by got_da_scoop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually this is a natural white reaction. Blowing small things out of proportion in order to look important,and show worthiness of the the position that they occupy.
2007-01-31 23:09:16 · answer #10 · answered by RJ2K1 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋