OMG! Terrorist!!1!eleventy!!

[Alexandra]

When you suspect everyone, everyone is a suspect.

[Jack7957]

I bet she's related to Heathrow security.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/30...h-picture.html

"I'm taking this plane to Cuba! And if you don't believe me, my t-shirt will shoot!"

...Well a co-worker and I decided to check out back to see how many carts would be back there. ... Turns out someone assumed that we were stealing something.

I got stopped by the cops and my car searched when they saw me coming from behind a dept store late at night after they closed. I was there waiting for my friend to get out and decided to drive around back to see if any fishermen had camped out back there. Where the store was located is a small village and previous years fishermen would use the parking lot as a campground, till management started putting up signs and allowing employees to drive up and down the rows of campers/trailers beeping their horns when they left at 10pm or later. Since the fishermen usually get up around 4-5am, they didn't like being woken up at 10pm from a sound sleep.

[Imogene]

And here I was expecting the 'Mystic' symbol to be Aerosmith's A... damn... the Autobots never even crossed my mind.

[Samaliel]

I'd better not wear my Requiem T-Shirt in your neighborhood, then...

[computeraide]

When you suspect everyone, everyone is a suspect.

For some reason that reminded me of Mystery Men.

"He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions." -- The Sphinx

[Geek King]

I work at a colonial inn in a small New England town. Which, obviously, is bound to be targeted by terrorists.

A little OT, but this statement just makes me nuts everytime someone says it. If I were some psycho nutcase bent on using terror as a weapon to get my point accross, a small town is exactly where I would hit. What better way to screw with someone's mind than to prove that, yes, it can happen where you live, no matter the size. Sure, you wouldn't kill many people, but you'd scare a lot more than one big attack, especially if you could pull off several locations in diverse places.

Sick little thoughts like this help make me a better GM, and keep my players on their toes.

But with the lady in the OP, yeah, someone is a little too into their TV.

[auntiem]

Gerrinson - if you are in the town I think you are, my sister jokes that there are two main employers there and sometimes you can't tell the difference between the employees of one and the residents of the other.

[Jack7957]

If I were some psycho nutcase bent on using terror as a weapon to get my point accross, a small town is exactly where I would hit.

I used to work near the County Emergency Ops director one time. I always wanted to suggest that he let me be the 'bad guy' for one of their drills. Most of the time everyone involved already knows ahead of time when the drill would happen. The most I figured I would tell them ahead of time is that it would be 'sometime this week'. I had a similar idea to what you mention, about hitting several small targets instead of trying for one big one.

[Samaliel]

A little OT, but this statement just makes me nuts everytime someone says it. If I were some psycho nutcase bent on using terror as a weapon to get my point accross, a small town is exactly where I would hit. What better way to screw with someone's mind than to prove that, yes, it can happen where you live, no matter the size. Sure, you wouldn't kill many people, but you'd scare a lot more than one big attack, especially if you could pull off several locations in diverse places.

Sick little thoughts like this help make me a better GM, and keep my players on their toes.

But with the lady in the OP, yeah, someone is a little too into their TV.

Yeah... Terrorists, these days... They don't care about striking fear in the enemy any more. They're just trying to make a point that they can hit you, no matter how well protected you think you are...

[JustADude]

Yeah... Terrorists, these days... They don't care about striking fear in the enemy any more. They're just trying to make a point that they can hit you, no matter how well protected you think you are...

Just as a technical note, not that anyone ever bothers to think about it when making headlines, but it's not 'terrorism' if you aren't trying to scare the crap out of your opponents, it's just 'guerrilla warfare'. Of course, one man's guerrilla is another man's terrorist, so whatever.

Also, what ever happened to quality, not to mention pride in your work? Give me half the resources these guys are supposed to have and I could have most of the first world pissing themselves inside a month.

[zzapp the witch]

I'm having an intellectual orgasm right now cause Geek King and me think alike.

[edible_hat]

Also, what ever happened to quality, not to mention pride in your work? Give me half the resources these guys are supposed to have and I could have most of the first world pissing themselves inside a month.

Lucky for us, once they start on a big project that needs more than one person they open the door to undercover investigators like the ones who foiled the bombings that didn't happen all over Europe at Christmas in the year 2000.

[Gerrinson]

Gerrinson - if you are in the town I think you are, my sister jokes that there are two main employers there and sometimes you can't tell the difference between the employees of one and the residents of the other.

Well, you may have the right town, but if that is the case I'm very offended at your comment, as I am an employee. Kidding!

And Geek King, I totally agree that you're correct. I thought Tom Clancy's novel with Jack Ryan's son as the main character was pretty on target with a good way to strike fear into people: a few guys letting loose in some random mall with some automatic weapons. But attacking given the way the jihadists think, I doubt they would hit here. Jihadists hit the big cities where it'll make a huge splash and panic the millions that live there. Hitting a town of a couple thousand isn't their style; the potential body count just isn't high enough.

[edicius]

Wow, I better be careful wearing my plethora of Transformers shirts when I'm out and about. I'm totally screwed if I let my Transformers tattoos show - it'll expose me as a pale-skinned jihadist for sure!

That's just bizarre as hell.

[Exodus212]

I was walking around in Wal-Mart, but I was just browsing (I refuse to buy anything from Wal-Mart because they put so many people out of work. Unless I need to.). I heard over the P.A. " Will the tall Caucasian man wearing the shirt with the satanic message about dragons on it please come to the front of the store." I facepalm, because I was wearing my DragonForce shirt. I go to the front desk and ask what the problem is. The woman who reported me says, "There! There he is! Arrest him!" The people at the front desk just burst out laughing. The shirt looks like it does in this picture:http://dragonforce.shop.bravadousa.c...99&pc=BGCTDG15 .

DOES THAT LOOK SATANIC?!