Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-01-31 Thread Rupert
what happen? somebody set up us the bomb. whenever i think it's getting crazy and paranoid in england, something brilliant happens in america to make me feel ok again. you have no chance to survive make your time! On 1 Feb 2007, at 00:33, taulpaulmpls wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread Rupert
On a serious note, the guys who set up the boards for Turner have been charged and could face up to five years in prison. From CNN: "Peter Berdovsky, 27, a freelance video artist from Arlington, Massachusetts, and Sean Stevens, 28, were facing charges of placing a hoax device in a way that

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread Jan McLaughlin
fear 24/7 oh boy i don't mind fear so much, but that we do irrational things when afraid j On 2/1/07, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a serious note, the guys who set up the boards for Turner have > been charged and could face up to five years in prison. > > From CNN: "Peter Berdovsky,

RE: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Szpakowski
OH please! I regularly work in London, my son was half a mile from the Aldgate bomb, the whole family passes through London on a regular basis & I know two things: (1) I'd rather have my civil liberties than the "protection" of the authorities, UK or US (2) When there *are* problems I know just who

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread Rupert
This is all getting way OT, but yeah - my tube station - Shepherds Bush, 1/2 mile away - was one of those chosen by the failed 21st July 05 bombers who got their explosive mix wrong and are currently on trial. My regular route to work was bombed on 7/7 at the exact time I would have trave

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Trust me, Tom. We are rolling our eyes in Europe, where suspected bombs are diffused all the time (I've watched it happen in Paris) and we know better than to give a non-situation more attention than it deserves and just move on. Like real grownups. Can we get back to vlogging now? I just p

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread Rupert
yes, but it's also the story of a major world city being put on red alert (which could have been avoided), and also the story of some people who - however stupid - may go to jail for a long time unnecessarily for a guerilla marketing & video stunt, which is how all this got started. Despi

Re: [videoblogging] Mooninites take over Boston

2007-02-01 Thread J. Rhett Aultman
I sincerely doubt the charges that end up sticking on these guys will be all that strong, but the truth of the matter is that they did disrupt the public, and disrupting the public is a crime. Yes, the authorities probably overreacted, but planting strange devices in public places, some of them de