I don't think that putting something on a bridge requires that the BPD lose its collective mind. As suspicious devices go, it looks about as suspicious as, well, a Lite Brite toy.
The BPD are supposed to be professionals. The pipe bombs, they look credible, they are scary, and yes, they should be paying a lot of attention to them. But it's the BPD that wasted a bunch of resources by failing to correctly analyze and prioritize, not the artists who put up the gizmos. The bleedin' things had been there for two weeks. In all that time, not one of Boston's Finest had never noticed and reported one?
Lots of bomb threats suggests no bombs, not lots of bombs. Bomb threats are incredibly effective at attracting police resources, but don't normally go boom. Blowing things up generally requires a bit more discretion. I wonder how many of the calls were from the guy that made the fake pipe bomb, if any. Again, these are the sorts of things that professionals are supposed to be able to evaluate. If every report of every suspicion of every citizen in the Boston Metro area were investigated by the police, they'd all die of exhaustion in a 72 hour period of time.
Meantime, it'd help if people would stop being so foolishly paranoid, too. I mean, what's the chance that a bomb is going to have blinky lights to attract attention, anyway? (Except in the movies.) Bombs want to be small, insignificant, and hidden so that people won't notice them while driving under bridges.
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I don't think that putting something on a bridge requires that the BPD lose its collective mind. As suspicious devices go, it looks about as suspicious as, well, a Lite Brite toy.
The BPD are supposed to be professionals. The pipe bombs, they look credible, they are scary, and yes, they should be paying a lot of attention to them. But it's the BPD that wasted a bunch of resources by failing to correctly analyze and prioritize, not the artists who put up the gizmos. The bleedin' things had been there for two weeks. In all that time, not one of Boston's Finest had never noticed and reported one?
Lots of bomb threats suggests no bombs, not lots of bombs. Bomb threats are incredibly effective at attracting police resources, but don't normally go boom. Blowing things up generally requires a bit more discretion. I wonder how many of the calls were from the guy that made the fake pipe bomb, if any. Again, these are the sorts of things that professionals are supposed to be able to evaluate. If every report of every suspicion of every citizen in the Boston Metro area were investigated by the police, they'd all die of exhaustion in a 72 hour period of time.
Meantime, it'd help if people would stop being so foolishly paranoid, too. I mean, what's the chance that a bomb is going to have blinky lights to attract attention, anyway? (Except in the movies.) Bombs want to be small, insignificant, and hidden so that people won't notice them while driving under bridges.