Hey LAistas. Apparently LA eyeworks is having their kick-ass glasses frames sale this weekend. Not sure if it's all branches or just the Costa Mesa branch. But it's killer deals with fashionable frames.
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omnis_audis - Sep 21, 2007 4:20:14 pm PDT #6567 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2007 5:15:14 pm PDT #6568 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
But because of the unfortunate combination of paranoia, history (how many of the flights on 9-11 flew out of Logan?), weird homemade electronic shit on someone's clothing, and the lack of response when directly asked WTF is with your shirt, the police's actions seem pretty reasonable to me.
Assuming that she really didn't answer, and actually was asked, then some kind of action being taken is one thing.
Pressing charges AFTER it was found to be a non-malicious fuck up and compounding that by saying she's just lucky they didn't use deadly force is an entirely different ball of wax.
Fuck that shit.
Trudy Booth - Sep 21, 2007 5:17:18 pm PDT #6569 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Pressing charges AFTER it was found to be a non-malicious fuck up and compounding that by saying she's just lucky they didn't use deadly force is an entirely different ball of wax.
But do we know that?
I think the possibility of "joke/art/prank" is still viable, isn't it?
P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2007 5:21:56 pm PDT #6570 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think the possibility of "joke/art/prank" is still viable, isn't it?
Not from the sounds of it, no. It's an outside possibility at best.
Eh. I need to remember to stop reading blog and news comment threads on things like this, because my outrage circuits are overloaded from the amount of racist, sexist, militaristic shit I've read today.
omnis_audis - Sep 21, 2007 5:26:07 pm PDT #6571 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
(work related)
10 clr
20 bash head to table
30 goto line 20
40 end
Laga - Sep 21, 2007 5:29:35 pm PDT #6572 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
BC, only people our age or older got that joke.
P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2007 5:31:20 pm PDT #6573 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
And one of the news reports said this:
A Massachusetts Port Authority staffer manning an information booth in the terminal became suspicious when Simpson -- wearing the device -- approached to ask about an incoming flight, Pare said. She did not respond when the employee asked her about the device she was wearing, so the employee repeated the question, police said.
Simpson then said the device was artwork and left the counter and walked around the terminal area, causing some employees to leave the building in fear, police said.
This Salon letter sums up my feelings well: [link]
DavidS - Sep 21, 2007 5:38:05 pm PDT #6574 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I concur, Ple.
I definitely went to:
The exact same thing happened with the infamous ATHF incident.
Trudy Booth - Sep 21, 2007 5:52:23 pm PDT #6575 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Except that...
If she DID have Play-doh in her hand that really does add credence to the theory that she did it intentionally.
I suppose many people in their twenties walk around playing with play-doh? While wearing wired things? To Airports?
With play-doh "Bad Choice Performance Art" really seems feasable.
P.M. Marc - Sep 21, 2007 5:57:45 pm PDT #6576 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I suppose many people in their twenties walk around playing with play-doh? While wearing wired things? To Airports?
I don't know if she really was carrying it, as some reports indicate that "putty" was actually the fabric paint. However, many tech geeks wander around with play-doh or silly putty (the latter of which is more common and looks more like an actual explosive material) in their hands no matter what they're wearing.
I'm STILL picking that shit out of my things from an incident seven years ago with it. (Note to all: when packing loose Silly Putty because your friends have ordered it bulk, make sure you have it in a container from which it cannot escape.)
This is the culture of my people. I know what they keep at their desks.