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"Suspisious Package" Gag Bombs in SoHo
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John Del Signore
Published May 21, 2010
Modified May 21, 2010
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After this month's dramatic spike in the number suspicious package bomb scares, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne predicted that the alarms "will eventually taper off. People are being more vigilant." But down in SoHo, vigilance took the form of apathy yesterday, when a suspicious package on a traffic control box failed to elicit any panic. Perhaps that's because, as you can see here, the package in question was clearly labeled "Suspisious Package" by some artsy provocateur desperately in need of a copy editor.
Obviously, there was no need for concern because a real terrorist would never be so obvious. (Nor would a real artist.) The problem now is that if any terrorists are reading this, they now know the best way to plant a bomb is to simply paint "ACME BOMB" on the side in cartoonish red letters, and drop it off in SoHo or Chelsea or anywhere where people are jaded by "edgy" conceptual art. [Via Huff Post]
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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