September 12th, 2008
The Stupid, It Burns! Literally.
One boggles:
A houses in North Texas burned down, killing two occupants, because the local authorities had switched off the fire-hydrants to stop terrorists from poisoning the water supply through them[.]
Update: Funny, I read through the original story to make sure the reason for turning the hydrants off was really as claimed by the summary, but I missed the whole no dead people bit. Stupid, indeed. Anyway, corrected. Thanks, Unacoder.
unacoder says:
there’s been an update to the article: no one was killed. no harm, no foul, right? now i’m off to ask my city council to consider turning off my neighborhood’s hydrants. sometimes the best offense is a good defense.
September 12th, 2008 at 7:48 am
silence dogood says:
We should stand the town’s mayor up in front of a firing squad as soon as possible, thus preventing Al Qaeda from assassinating him.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am