So the Department of Homeland Security releases a Cyber Security Guide, that triggers a security warning on load:
Failing to read your own material ... Priceless!

How To Protect Yourself Against Ebola

This week saw the first confirmed case of Ebola virus within the United States, the latest development in an outbreak that has already claimed over 3,000 lives. Here are some ways you can protect yourself against this deadly disease:

• Boil all bodily fluids before consumption.
• Regularly examine your DNA under an electron microscope for any indication that Ebola has attached itself to your cell membranes.
• Recognize the symptoms of Ebola, which include fever, chills, and developing symptoms too late to do anything about them.
• Cover the nose and mouth of Ebola patients when they sneeze to avoid spreading germs.
• Avoid eating bat soup, which is actually pretty sound advice whether there’s an ongoing Ebola outbreak or not.
• Ebola can only be spread once patients are symptomatic, so if you believe you’ve been exposed, get all your errands and public trips out of the way before your symptoms start showing.
• Be sure to stay up to date on developments by signing up for the official CDC phone tree.
• Try being born one of the 15 percent of rural Gabonese citizens with natural immunity to the virus.
• Give billions of dollars to pharmaceutical companies.
• If you see a suspicious-looking filamentous virus particle roughly one micron in length, stay away.
• Continue following lifelong plan of avoiding Dallas, TX at all costs.

So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.

Quote from: Stoic Joker on October 01, 2014, 05:03 PM

So... Now we're calling out the bomb squad for litter bugs
Note: Sadly this completely absurd overreaction is an actual -currently happening - real live event.

We just had a similar incident over an abandoned suitcase full of stuffed animals.

http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/10/all_of_route_287_shut_down_around_hanover_parsippany.html

And my daughter's boyfriend just announced that he wants a job on the bomb squad...specifically, the Teddy Ruxpin Disposal Unit.
(see attachment in previous post)

"So, in other words, some debris fell off a truck. A paranoid motorist called it in. An overreacting police department shuts down a highway during rush hour and calls the bomb squad, causing countless motorist to spend hours sitting in traffic and thousands of dollars of police overtime," the user wrote. "When, they probably could have just kicked whatever it was to the side of the road and call he public works department out to through it out."

And Krev offered in response: "And if it exploded you'd be screeching about how careless the police are."

Once again the boogieman is behind every tree...as our entire culture goes completely to shit with rampant paranoia.

*Sigh*

Quote from: TaoPhoenix on October 10, 2014, 01:56 AM

Fun fund raiser idea:
"Salt the police officer for charity".

"Sponsors can take a salt shaker and sprinkle salt on the officers". Viral media gold: "Today I salted one hundred police officers"! Bonus followup: You can give them a battery of their choice!

Just gotta watch out that the officers don't pepper you in return.