And where I’ll be on Sunday
The Houston Chronicle is reporting that on October 12 seven U.S. cities will be hit with a dirty bomb during scheduled NFL football games:
The warning, posted Oct. 12, was part of an ongoing Internet conversation titled “New Attack on America Be Afraid.†It mentioned NFL stadiums in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland, where games are scheduled for this weekend.
We have a group of 9 season tickets and PSLs for the Houston Texans — since Day 1. This Sunday I’ll be right back here (that’s me on the right at a Texans home game last year):
And inside, these are my friends and our seats. We’ll all be there on Sunday.
I’m definitley not going to let the threat of terrorism alter how I live my life.
Dr. Rusty Shackleford at The Jawa Report has an extensive history and rundown of this threat:
So, am I still dismissive of the various dirty bomb and nuclear threats? I think I’ve moved from dismissive to skeptical, and now to still skeptical with a hint of worry. Not necessarily by the NFL threat, but by the confluence of all the threats at once. Howie agrees that the dirty bomb threat is not too credible. After all, those making the NFL threats could have been inspired by those earlier threats–which may have had no basis in reality whatsoever. And if we have found the original threat, it seems much more fantasy than anything else. The poster ‘javness’ describes himself as….well, you really don’t want to know, but think the bad gay in a very jeuvenile way.
But, again, I was a Boy Scout and our motto was “be prepared”.
I’d say that on any given Sunday at Reliant Stadium, about 90% of the vehicles in the parking lot are trucks and SUVs. I’d guess that more than half of them are carrying dear rifles, shotguns, handguns, or some combination thereof. If Muslim terrorists are planning on bringing a dirty bomb to the Texans game this Sunday, they will be heavily out-armed.
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Chad Evans at In the Bullpen is calling it a hoax:
UPDATE: It’s a hoax, and not even one constructed by someone who looks at the NFL schedule to figure when the games cited actually start. No surprise either, but it was done by a 9/11 conspiracy nutjob who cited the above plot saying that’s what he expects President Bush to launch.
Have a great time….. but don’t piss off any armed tailgaters!
My son is mad because he wanted me to try to get tickets for the Cowboys-Eagles game on Christmas. Yeah, right. But if that somehow happens, the three guys in green in the middle of Texas Stadium? That’ll be my clan.
As for me, I’ll be watching my baby playing JV tonight…. and I don’t think there is any threat, other than obnoxious parents who think they know more than the coaches, refs, and players. /roll eyes
Left by Terr on October 19th, 2006 at 8:35 am