Friday, February 04, 2011

And the Darwin Award for 2010 is won, at the last minute, by somebody we can laugh at with a clear conscience

Now this story, which tells how a would-be suicide bomber in Russia was blown up in her own apartment when a spam text message unexpectedly popped up on the cell phone she had just wired up as a detonator, is a classic all around (except for the fact that the same group did, later on, successfully detonate bombs at Domodyedovo, as you probably saw on the news). But I think my favorite bit comes when the reporter deadpans:
The phones are usually kept switched off until the very last minute but in this case, Russian security sources believe, the terrorists were careless.


Um..."careless." I'd say so.

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