Michael Gracie » terrorism http://michaelgracie.com Clever Tagline Unavailable At Publication Time Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Stupidest Terrorist Overreaction Yet? http://michaelgracie.com/2007/08/27/stupidest-terrorist-overreaction-yet/ http://michaelgracie.com/2007/08/27/stupidest-terrorist-overreaction-yet/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:06:40 +0000 Michael Gracie http://michaelgracie.com/2007/08/27/stupidest-terrorist-overreaction-yet/

According to the venerable, combined force of the Associated Press and MSNBC…

Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.

“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know. It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”

- some spokesperson

I’m not sure which is worse - the smarmy spokes-comment, whatever they thought was “more serious” than terrorism, or that the reporters/editors didn’t comment on the insanity of this.

Courtesy of Bruce Schneier

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