You think after blowing up his stuff only to find out it wasn't a bomb the police will care about his statement? His friend CLEARLY just claimed to have been the one driving to save him, so got hit with Obstruction Of Justice or something along those lines.
Don't underestimate a police officer trying to save face after screwing up big time.
You will be charged with the manufacture of a device that (when blown up) injured or if unlucky killed several police officers.
He called a friend with a valid license to drive him into town, in his own car since that could fit the pressure cooker in the back seat.
That's my theory, and at least a plausible explanation.
It's funny how there's more than one kind of terrorism, right?
Terrorism is by definition actions meant to spread fear; it doesn't HAVE to be violent. It doesn't HAVE to be done by muslim extremists. It just has to make people afraid.
Like the risk of having the police blow up (the contents of) your car because they (claim they) can smell gasoline. On a vehicle propelled by gasoline.
Will this include having Germany unblock Youtube?
Currently, ANYTHING on Youtube involving music is blocked because GEMA (the German equivalent of RIAA) can't reach an agreement with Google. The end result is that all those videos out there where people play a bit of background music are effectively banned from being seen in Germany.
For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
An interesting excerpt for those too lazy to click on links:
A study sponsored by the video hosting website MyVideo estimated that 61.5% of the 1000 most viewed YouTube clips are blocked in Germany. This is significantly higher than, for example, in the United States (0.9%) or in Switzerland (>1%).[7]
I like how we get the explanation of why she's now your EX wife in this short story.
but in a large country statistically rare occurrences happen with distressing frequency
These people are a minority, out of the dozens of LEOs I know I can only name one that falls into this category.
I felt a certain need to point out these two parts of your well written post just to remind you of your own words when it comes to the second quote.
The thing is that getting 50% of your pay means the business is going to balk at throwing it at anyone who doesn't actually have access to 'classified' knowledge; the sysadmin knowing the entire network, high-up managers with insight into future company plans and so on. So if you're laid off, and you get 50% of your normal pay, you probably in most cases had a job where you could put something aside, and with that 50% pay you will have a much longer time to find a different job, AND you can choose something at a low pay that isn't competing. You could manage the network of that non-profit organization you've been helping out at anyway, for one.
Having your entire pay removed, AND being told not to work with anything that Amazon might at some point in the future decide to dabble in? Yeah, welcome to unemployment.
Please, to a man it looks a lot longer than it actually is, therefore he's not short-sighted but long-sighted.
Yes, he discovered something the Japanese invented/built over 70 years ago!
From the OP:
we're moving soon, and this is the major reason
I dunno, do you think moving is something you wake up Saturday morning and decide to do, and then you're all settled in your new home in time for dinner?
It's almost like America is a country where violence is PG-13, but nudity is NC-17.
Oh wait.
Seriously though, the main problem in America seems to be a culture of glorifying violent actions in one way or another. From the classic examples of how geeks and nerds get treated in school by the 'cool' jocks to the frothing "MY GUN OR MY LIFE!" mentality some people exhibit I can only sit here and quietly shake my head at the world-leading super-power who wants to tell everyone else how to do things.
To be quite honest, I'm not sure who's more scary. The extremists east of me
They see me rollin'
They hatin'
That's just how I roll.
He sends armed police officers to attack the homes of (likely) innocent people, in the hopes that SOMEONE is going to get shot in the confusion.
That's not exactly non-violent.
Effectively sterile, until it turns out that some wild females have a different rare genetic mutation which when coupled with this one creates something entirely unexpected.
Being able to reproduce is being able to reproduce. You don't say that a couple who have a stillborn baby are sterile, do you?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
