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Sunday, 30 April 2006

The people promoting the new Mission: Impossible III movie thought it would be cool to stick little electronic music devices in newspaper vending machines all over Los Angeles, rigged so that the movie's theme would play when people opened the door.

Naturally, given just the slightest surprise in their daily lives, people freaked out. Big time. Pretty soon, the bomb squad was called in. Well, obviously. The logic is impeccable: Wires? Music? Aieee! BOOM!

My tax dollars were just spent blowing up a musical newspaper rack.

Supposedly this was understandable, what with a box and wires being found in an unexpected place. Yuh-huh.

But this "bomb"... was actually playing the Mission: Impossible theme. Out loud. Does anyone think Al-Qaeda would really do that? Rig up bombs to play clichéd spy music before exploding, just to freak people out a little extra? The same way, I guess, that sharks like to hum the Jaws theme out loud just before attacking?

Yeesh.

Remind me not to sing out loud around here with an iPod around my neck. Wires? Music? Aieee! BOOM!