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September 24, 2009

The Onion on Security

"Authorities Called in to Examine Suspicious-Looking Ham."

Posted on September 24, 2009 at 2:57 PM12 Comments

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Karl LembkeSeptember 24, 2009 3:57 PM

"A suspicious looking ham."

Named William Shatner?


Swine FlewSeptember 24, 2009 4:17 PM

Pork-barrel politics.


miss piggySeptember 24, 2009 5:29 PM

Grandma always pointed at those vagrant hams and said "don't be like them or you'll be on the bus to smokeyville" guess she was right.


Matt SimmonsSeptember 24, 2009 6:46 PM

Insert some sort of stereotypical muslim-pork related comment here


RubenSeptember 25, 2009 12:18 AM

It's from The Onion, but I wouldn't find it strange coming from any real news source. When it comes to handling security in the media, nothing is too wacky, it would seem.


BF SkinnerSeptember 25, 2009 6:25 AM

From the reports it sounds initially like Zazi and company are the real deal. How big a threat remains to be seen.

But still...The Feebee's 'agents found Zazi's fingerprints on a scale and double-A batteries'.

This is evidence?

Apparently the VLWC media asked about because an official went on record saying 'scale could have been used to weigh bomb components'


Thomas ClaburnSeptember 25, 2009 7:59 AM

Honorable mention, also from The Onion:

DHS Sets Security Alert Level To Green For 8 Seconds

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/...


BF SkinnerSeptember 25, 2009 8:41 AM

"Security Alert Level To Green "

Ah. That's why I was able to relax.


John WatersSeptember 25, 2009 9:06 AM

Clearly demonstrates the existential threat of domestic terrorist groups and far right wing militias.

As an American Muslim I am deeply disturbed about this business of indiscriminately leaving pork products in public spaces... People need to keep their moldy hunks of smokey hog-butt to themselves.

Unless it was really made out of turkey, in that case I am all over that stuff like suck on an MS SQL server.


Scott G. LewisSeptember 26, 2009 7:22 AM

This happened in real life too. Well, it was all beef hotdogs, but close enough.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/26886002/


David HarmonSeptember 26, 2009 7:46 AM

While you're having fun, here's a stray authentication joke from a webcomic:

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/...


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