Comments on: Forbidden Friday http://www.bladediary.com/forbidden-friday/ daily updates of stencils, street art, and also STUFF!! Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:56:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: jacek http://www.bladediary.com/forbidden-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2534 jacek Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:56:23 +0000 http://www.bladediary.com/?p=2162#comment-2534 I'm glad someone as responsible as you is having all the good ideas I’m glad someone as responsible as you is having all the good ideas

]]> By: J http://www.bladediary.com/forbidden-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2533 J Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:22:08 +0000 http://www.bladediary.com/?p=2162#comment-2533 Personally, I don't know enough about bombs to determine that Betabot is NOT a bomb. Maybe if I encountered it on the street, I'd be confident enough to stick around, but the beep-decay-countdown would make me nervous. Probably it doesn't pop open and be full of money. Probably it doesn't spray anthrax, either, but there's nothing to lose by not standing next to it. Fear conditioning and sensationalist media aside, once in a while something does happen right out of the blue. Look at Japan's Aum Shinrikyo in 1995. Or Ricardo Lopez. Without any reason to believe it's not a bomb, even a slight idea that maybe it is would be enough reason to not take any chances. Now, the Boston response to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force things, or the time the bomb squad blew up a newspaper box because it had an electric speaker saying "Watch Mission Impossible 3!" whenever someone bought a paper, that's taking it too far. Those things were obviously advertisements. A beeping box shaped like R2D2 or a Dalek might not make me quite so nervous. They were also quite small. A nondescript cube of about 30 cm per side would be large enough to contain, who knows what. Yeah, I'd think it prudent to beware of Betabot. You'd get a reaction much like the guy who put the fake bomb at the Rom. Personally, I don’t know enough about bombs to determine that Betabot is NOT a bomb. Maybe if I encountered it on the street, I’d be confident enough to stick around, but the beep-decay-countdown would make me nervous. Probably it doesn’t pop open and be full of money. Probably it doesn’t spray anthrax, either, but there’s nothing to lose by not standing next to it. Fear conditioning and sensationalist media aside, once in a while something does happen right out of the blue. Look at Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo in 1995. Or Ricardo Lopez. Without any reason to believe it’s not a bomb, even a slight idea that maybe it is would be enough reason to not take any chances.

Now, the Boston response to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force things, or the time the bomb squad blew up a newspaper box because it had an electric speaker saying “Watch Mission Impossible 3!” whenever someone bought a paper, that’s taking it too far. Those things were obviously advertisements. A beeping box shaped like R2D2 or a Dalek might not make me quite so nervous. They were also quite small. A nondescript cube of about 30 cm per side would be large enough to contain, who knows what.

Yeah, I’d think it prudent to beware of Betabot. You’d get a reaction much like the guy who put the fake bomb at the Rom.

]]> By: Brian http://www.bladediary.com/forbidden-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2526 Brian Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:29:20 +0000 http://www.bladediary.com/?p=2162#comment-2526 I think you made the right move.. But I'm bummed I don't get to learn how people respond to it. I think you made the right move.. But I’m bummed I don’t get to learn how people respond to it.

]]> By: erem http://www.bladediary.com/forbidden-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2498 erem Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:28:08 +0000 http://www.bladediary.com/?p=2162#comment-2498 haha well thought out....on TWO counts haha well thought out….on TWO counts

]]> By: chro http://www.bladediary.com/forbidden-friday/comment-page-1/#comment-2493 chro Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:57:24 +0000 http://www.bladediary.com/?p=2162#comment-2493 Until I saw that it was NOT released I thought we would never hear from post again! To bad the world is too paranoid... Until I saw that it was NOT released I thought we would never hear from post again!

To bad the world is too paranoid…

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