Terrorists hit New Haven!
To those heading to New Haven next week, please watch your step.
Apparently, some runners in New Haven have been arrested for causing a terror scare. I guess they were marking a crazy running path through the city as part of a running group. They used flour. People saw it and thought it was some kind of chemical agent or something and called the po-lice. The two were arrested and charged with a felony.
I’m sure somewhere there are 27 8×10’s with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one to be used in evidence against them.
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant…
August 28th, 2007 09:42
Obviously the officers who arrested them weren’t runners. Our local hashers caused a scare similar to this a couple years ago in a park, but they weren’t arrested. It’s just FLOUR, people! It’s not like they were spray-painting graffiti.
August 28th, 2007 09:49
Hmmm, bad news for the next race organizers who seek volunteers to mark the route. I am still shaking my head in disbelief.
August 28th, 2007 11:58
Proof positive that the terrorists are winning. There are cases like this all time. Terrorists seek to destroy our happy go lucky lives - and so they have.
August 28th, 2007 12:57
Ridiculous. Just ****ing ridiculous. That’s as bad as Boston’s Lite-brite (adult swim) scare (even if on a smaller scale). We’ve got to get the real terrorists out of office.
August 28th, 2007 13:02
i can’t even tell you how disgusted i was by this…i mean, honestly…do people really think that terrorists would be so bold as to dump piles of chemical agents in a parking lot where everyone could see them? for the love.
and…every Turkey Day, without fail, we listen to Alice’s Restaurant, at least once.
so when do you arrive on Sunday? Up for some pizza?
August 28th, 2007 16:12
Its the Hash House Harriers I’d bet. That’s what they use to mark the course, crazy as it may be. Maybe they got in trouble for drinking beer in public instead? They do that too. Been there, done that.
August 28th, 2007 16:53
As a hasher, I can tell you that it was the hash up there that this story is regarding. The most bizarre parts of this story are that (1) the hash is an international group that has been in existence for almost 70 years, (2) a quick google search for ‘chalk arrows flour -”new haven”‘ shows a number of web sites for hashes around the world, (3) the offending members of the hash came back to explain to the officers what was going on, and were silenced, and (4) A FELONY? Lighten up, people.
August 28th, 2007 16:56
Sorry, I meant “powder arrows flour -”new haven”" as the search. Of course, they wouldn’t be searching for flour, not knowing what it was.
August 29th, 2007 22:45
The same thing happened a few years ago in Chicago, too! Obviously, the New Haven cops must not read the paper…
August 30th, 2007 10:13
absolutely f-ing ridiculous. flipperhead and i were chatting about this and she suggested that all the runners in the newhaven road race take a bike bottle of flour and squeeze some every so often and cover the whole course with flour.
September 4th, 2007 18:21
Great seeing you yesterday!
September 4th, 2007 21:39
I guess Barney Fife wasn’t working that day and they had to call in the auxillary.