Congrats to the fun-lovin' but apparently foulmouthed pranksters who pulled off this stunt, and may you never be caught:
SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) -- Three CD players hidden under a cathedral's pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday Mass, leading a bomb squad to detonate two of the devices.
Authorities determined the music players were not dangerous and kept the third one to check it for clues, said police Capt. Gary Johnson.
The CD players, duct-taped to the bottoms of the pews, were set to turn on in the middle of noon Mass on Wednesday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
The recordings, made on store-bought blank discs, featured people using foul language and "pornographic messages," Johnson said. He would not elaborate because of the ongoing investigation.
Church staff members took the CD players to the basement and called police, who sent the bomb squad, Johnson said.
The bomb squad blew up two players outside and kept the third one to test for fingerprints or DNA and trace its components, he said.
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, which marks a 40-day period of fasting and penitence before Easter.
12 comments:
Lent started off with a bang! Wow!
Will someone please stick one of these on Fearless Leader real soon now?
My boss's hubby just wrote a little play about this: wanna hear it? Here it goes!
"What is it?"
"I don't know but it keeps beeping and it's got numbers on the screen!"
(Bomb squad arrives on scene)
BOOM!!!
"That was my pager, you idiots!"
Seems about right to me...
foul langauge? that's actaully kinda boring i think. i can get that from a cabbie anyday.
next time they should use porn audio.
OK, I've figured it out. After 9/11 the gov. threw money and equipment at bomb squads all over the country. All those pyromaniacs are getting desperately bored with no actual terrorists to deal with. They blow up CD players, lite-brites, or just about anything.
"Hey, we got a call... it could have been a bomb..."
Yes indeed. If one is planting a bomb they would want to announce its presense with loud music. Makes total sense in this warped world.
Good thing this wouldn't be called a hate crime if a synagogue was targeted.
Heck, it was probably Jews who did it! Those rascally heretics!
PSP -- off topic but nevertheless important: since the reno my live bookmark feed of the blog has been kinda screwy and I'm getting "new" posts listed which are really old. Can u fix pretty pleeeese?
thnx n stuff.
I can't really control it. I think what may have happened is that I was going through previous months and editing the posts to include topic tags. When I did so, your reader may have interpreted these edited posts as "new". Now, however, I'm pretty much done with that, so it may stop.
Maybe someone will give up profanity pranks for lent.
okay, thanks PSP :)
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