False Alarm?

February 13, 2003 6:28 PM

False Alarm? This news item just p[osted suggests that an al Qaeda guy who said there would be a dirty bomb attack in one of three major cities did not pass the polygraph test he was later given and that much of the high alert was based upon his story, though alert still stands.
posted by Postroad (11 comments total)

great. what am i supposed to do with all this duct tape?

seriously, my big concern about the whole alert thing is it will be become like the boy who cried wolf. if the shit ever does go down, no one will pay attention to the alerts anymore.
posted by birdherder at 6:45 PM on February 13, 2003

Did you really buy duct tape?

Good god man.
posted by Satapher at 6:53 PM on February 13, 2003

"great. what am i supposed to do with all this duct tape?"
posted by 2sheets at 6:54 PM on February 13, 2003

birdherder, stack it in the garage with your Y2K(tm) Emergency Generator.
posted by m@ at 6:54 PM on February 13, 2003

I can't see how proving that a terrorist is also a liar is any great relief.
posted by hama7 at 6:57 PM on February 13, 2003

Besides, all you have to do in any serious emergency is Duck and Cover.
posted by Satapher at 7:04 PM on February 13, 2003

I can hear Osama's Nelson Muntzian. "Ha ha" even now.
posted by shagoth at 7:08 PM on February 13, 2003

He was lying, Las Vegas isn't that major, it's like 20th major. :)
posted by RobbieFal at 7:16 PM on February 13, 2003

besides, lie dectectors are total crap pseduo-science.
posted by th3ph17 at 7:18 PM on February 13, 2003

goddamnit. i'm putting up my duct tape and plastic sheeting on e-bay.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 7:24 PM on February 13, 2003

Hey, I use my duct tape to fix ANYTHING.

Like the plastic mat for my chair, or a severed limb.
posted by RobbieFal at 7:33 PM on February 13, 2003