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The Man Who Mistook His Amazon Box For A Bomb

On November 2, a man called his local police department to report a suspicious package on his doorstep. The investigation yielded surprising results! Assuming you don’t know ahead of time that the man in question is a raging fool.

On the other hand, maybe he was just a lonely raging fool, or a raging fool who orders hazardous materials from Amazon. [Reddit]

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    Jonathan

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM

    Far out you can spot an iPhone 4 photo from a mile away!! That purple spot kept distracting me from the story

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      Iain

      Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM

      Would you rather a 3GS photo? Then it would be illegible.

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      some guy

      Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM

      Yeah why is that? My old (OLD) Nokia 6120 used to do that. Haven’t noticed it on my iPhone 3G…

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      Simon Reidy

      Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM

      Great science skills there. Purple tinge = iPhone 4. There’s no possible way that could be a defect inherent to any other one of the other thousands of cheap CMOS sensors out there.

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    Dave

    Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 11:32 PM

    I’m glad our tax money was spent for the officer to attend to that call. I’m putting forward forced neutering for these special kinds of idiots, just in case they breed.

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