Meanwhile in stupidville…
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There is a youtube video of a missile? LOL. Did someone cut in some 80s action movie footage?
That first one is classic conspiracy nut.
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A large portion is excerpted here, though the excerpt ends abruptly, perhaps the most frustrating sort of excerpt, since the collection is out of print and seems to command collectible prices.
There was a bomb on the Leystrasse, level forty-five, right outside the Bagatelle Flower and Gift Shoppe, about a hundred meters down the promenade from Prosperity Plaza.
“I am a bomb,” the bomb said to passersby. “I will explode in four hours, five minutes, and seventeen seconds. I have a force equal to fifty thousand English tons of trinitrololuene.”
A small knot of people gathered to look at it.
“I will go off in four hours, four minutes, and thirty-seven seconds.”
A few people became worried as the bomb talked on. They remembered business elsewhere and hurried away, often toward the tube trains to King City. Eventually, the trains became overcrowded and there was some pushing and shoving.
The bomb was a metal cylinder, a meter high, two meters long, mounted on four steerable wheels. There was an array of four television cameras mounted on top of the cylinder, slowly scanning through ninety degrees. No one could recall how it came to be there. It looked a little like the municipal street-cleaning machines; perhaps no one had noticed it because of that.
“I am rated at fifty kilotons,” the bomb said, with a trace of pride.
The police were called.
More at the link…
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Turns out he said, “I’m going to be famous, and Nashville will never forget me.” to a neighbor. That’s likely your motive. He wanted to bomb second ave. If you aren’t from Nashville, you wouldn’t know what bombing second ave means. But if you’re from nashville, you’re certainly going to remember this, the tornado, the floods, all in the same set of memories.
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If we are in a place where playing Petula Clark is worth felony charges, we are long past gone. There has to be more to this.
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The stupid is strong with these ones. Seriously, some rabbitholes are so deep even light cannot escape.
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the text from the article:
"Local man James Turgeon , 33, drove around a box truck playing audio “similar to the audio heard before the Nashville explosion Christmas Day.”
the amount of the bail (500K) suggests this was a serious matter, probably not just Petula Clarke
Never underestimate the ability of cops to overreact.
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Say what now?
Why, my bones are still bruised from my last dustup with the Petula Clark Boys. 
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I believe the vehicle was first seen parked several hours before the explosion, so I’m gonna say that’s highly unlikely.
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Note that this is a Lunar city, so the explosion would be confined, and then released into vacuum.
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yes.
I found a more complete copy-- as it was printed in Galaxy
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I’m guessing, but it sounds like he decided it would be a great prank to park in front of a church service and play that music loudly on outside speakers, recording the panic for uploading (because this is 2020). Then he moved on to other locations.
So, a major asshole. (And he probably used portrait.)
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Good. I wasn’t going to go down to the basement to fish it out of a box.
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I wasn’t going to go down to the basement to fish it out of a box
Since its apparently collectible I suggest you go get it.
Note that this is a Lunar city, so the explosion would be confined, and then released into vacuum.
I would expect a nuke to overwhelm internal defenses against decompression and take out much of the city.
the collection is out of print and seems to command collectible prices.
I should dig mine out too.
I read elsewhere that he was in a conflict with his mother over one of his houses. I suppose giving the house away and killing her son is a way of getting back at her.
But what do I do with the rest of the box(es)?
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