Originally published at: Ghost hunters left behind electronic device at "haunted" museum, causing a bomb scare | Boing Boing
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oops.
It’s hard to tell from the story whether the box had been intentionally left behind or not. Was it supposed to be continuously scanning for ghosts?
I suppose most bomb makers would write something like “This is not a bomb” on the fancy box that they put their bombs into.
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Maybe it’s haunted by the ghost of a ghostbuster?
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So, it was indeed haunted… by stupidity and superstition.
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Shoulda left one of these, with some kind of motion sensor to activate it.
Give the visitors to a haunted museum what they want-- goosebumps.
(Disclaimer: Management is not responsible for soiled underwear.)
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I wanna know what sort of testing determined that the box was untested.
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Oh, no, homemade wiring! It could have been a Zika-infected mosquito dispenser! Or it could have been an anthrax flinger! Or a box full of nuclear waste!
See? I can make up all kinds of stupid shit it isn’t, too!
God, people are so intentionally stupid lately.
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As someone who frequently traveled with a full sized carry on full of electronics parts shortly after 9/11, I know exactly how weird people can be about this stuff.
And how scared a TSA agent can get.
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Did they point their guns at you?
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No, thank God.
But I remember one TSA agent instantly going slack jawed, mute, and pale, like a cartoon. My boss calmly explained the situation while shooting me dirty looks because I was laughing my ass off at the absurdity of the whole thing.
I may have been put on some kind of list after that, or been selected for extra screenings. That, or my luck with the “randomized screenings” was just really bad.
If I had more melanin I would have gotten a gun drawn on me.
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