Entry 36774 (Berkeley CSUA MOTD)

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2005/3/20-21 [Transportation/Misc, Transportation/Motorcycle] UID:36774 Activity:moderate

3/19    You know we hear about car bombs all the time, but SCOOTER BOMB???
        This is ridiculous:   http://tinyurl.com/437ru (news.yahoo.com)
        \_ This is not a story about a scooter bomb, it is a story about
           pig-headed Englishmen.
        \_ ride bike!
        \_ See, we are not the only ones overreacting in a hysterical and
           paranoid fashion to imaginary threats! The British share our
           delusions, woo hoo!
        \_ in the south of Thailand, bombers have been using mopeds
           relatively often.  it only takes a small amount of high
           explosive to blow up a shop or cafe, and a moped is a nice
           disguise to get it close and wait for the right noment
           to remote detonate by cell-phone. :-(
           \_ Is this sort of thing common in Thailand? Why?
              \_ Because there are a lot of mopeds in Thailand, and the Muslim
                 extremists are active in the southern part of the country.

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3/7     Stuff like this can make the cities even more desireable places
        to live. Imagine urban mobility without sharing the bus or
        having to hunt for a parking place:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080307/sc_nm/usa_minicar_dc_1
        \_ That "stuff" is called the bicycle, scooter, and motorcycle.
           Stupid.
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tinyurl.com/437ru -> story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20050318/od_nm/britain_scooter_dcOddly Enough - Reuter s LONDON (Reuters) - Heidi Brown was told she could park her new scooter ou tside the vehicle registration office while she waited to get license pl ates. To her horror, it was blown up by the army after someone reported that it might be a bomb. Police in Ipswich, eastern England, confirmed on Thursday that a moped ha d been blown up in a controlled explosion after local business people "r aised concerns" that it could be a bomb. "The moped was chained to the perimeter fence outside the building. We we ren't able to identify whose vehicle it was because there were no licens e plates on it," said a spokeswoman for Suffolk police. She said the surrounding office buildings were evacuated and three roads were closed off. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported the scooter belonged to Brown, a 2 2-year-old care worker, who said she had been told she could leave it th ere awaiting inspection. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon .

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