Police blow up foul-mouthed CDs that blared in church.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/22/church.foul.language.ap/index.html

SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) -- Three CD players hidden under a cathedral's pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday Mass, leading a bomb squad to detonate two of the devices.

The CD players, duct-taped to the bottoms of the pews, were set to turn on in the middle of noon Mass on Wednesday at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

The recordings, made on store-bought blank discs, featured people using foul language and "pornographic messages," Johnson said. He would not elaborate because of the ongoing investigation.


Okay, the police in this country are getting a little untrustworthy.

[Dora]

1. F-bomb. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. LOL

[Initech]

10. Yeah, literally!

[Caoimhe]

2. OMG LOL!!!

That's hilarious. But.. a bomb squad?
couldn't someone look under the pew and see they were cd players? Crikey!

[waiting for hope]

5. They probably thought

it was a Demon Spawn, disenfranchised Republican or that someone was posessed...You need a bomb for that!

[Common Sense Party]

7. Which part is hilarious?

[Caoimhe]

28. Just the thought of someone going to all that trouble

to scare a bunch of church people with "foul language" made me laugh. I sortof wish I'd have thought of it. Not really, but hmmm.

[Solo_in_MD]

3. With that headline I first thought it was another anti-TG hate crime

[Dr.Phool]

6. It's not like it was cartoon characters flippin' off Boston!

[Ian David]

8. Nobody would suspect terrorists of making bombs that play obscene music

Which is exactly why we must be on the look out for CD players blasting dirty lyrics.

THEY'RE DIRTY BOMBS! FILTHY, OBSCENE, NASTY DIRTY BOMBS!

The terrorists know we'd never suspect it.

I'm going to jump out of my skin every time the pizza delivery guy goes by!

[Ian David]

9. Local Bomb Squad has a budget to use. If they don't blow-up SOMETHING, their budget gets cut. n/t

[Karenina]

11. RIP Wesley Willis!

THEY THREW ME OUTTA CHURCH...

[lectrobyte]

12. Wait, they examined them enough to figure out

that the recordings were on store-bought blank discs, but blew them up anyway? Bomb squads are stupid.

[Bake]

13. I really don't find anything about this humorous.

I respect others' right to believe, or not to believe, and to worship, or not to worship, as they see fit. Apparently some don't. Nothing funny about this incident; I find it pretty juvenile for someone to do this in ANY house of worship.

Bake

[The Straight Story]

14. One might even consider it a hate crime (nt)

[Bake]

15. And just a guess on my part

But if it were done in a mosque, DU would be aflame over it. But since it happened in a Christian church, it's supposed to be really, really funny.

Bake

[sinkingfeeling]

21. The 'funny' part is the over-reaction of the police. The church had already

removed them from the pews and then the police examined them and then blew them up.

[lectrobyte]

32. Obscene recordings in a church is not funny. The Police blowing

up CD Players, after examining them to the point of figuring out the CDs were homemade, is funny in a "so stupid what were they thinking?" way.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. Hopefully They Catch The Juvenile Assholes That Did It And Teach 'Em A Lesson.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Yes. The only obscenities that should be permitted in church are the pedophile priests

and the organization- all the way up to the top of the Vatican, mind you- that criminally covers up for them and protects them.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

18. Do You Name Your Strawmen? You Seem To Put Such Effort Into Their Creation.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Warren DeMontague]

19. That's not a strawman. That's a fact.

Fact is, any other organization that had engaged in such widespread conspiracy to protect pedophiles would be up on racketeering charges, and torch-wielding citizens would have run them out of every county in the nation.

But, as usual, the church plays by special rules.

Look, I'm not defending whoever did this thing with the speakers- it sounds juvenile, and I fully support the right of people to worship as they choose without being bothered.

But you'll forgive me if I don't jump on the "poor, persecuted Catholic Church" bandwagon.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

20. .

:eyes:

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Right. Thou shalt not call attention to the moral hypocrisy of an organization

that lectures sexually active adults about marriage, orientation and birth control while simultaneously helping child molesters escape justice.

:eyes:, indeed.

[Bake]

22. I don't believe anybody brought up "persecution" other than you, just now

This was a juvenile crime. It was not persecution, and nobody said it was. And yes, we all know the Catholic Church has some problems. As does ANY human institution. Nice straw man. I guess that makes it OK to belittle others' beliefs, desecrate their sanctuaries, etc. Have a nice day.

Bake

[Bake]

24. Sorry, OMC, I was responding to impeachdubya's post, not yours

Bake

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Maybe you've got some reading comprehension problems.

Because I don't see where I said it was "okay" to belittle sanctuaries or desecrate beliefs.

Or whatever.

Sorry. You're right. Mentioning that the Catholic Church Hierarchy has been engaged in widespread pedophile protecting activities probably doesn't really relate specifically to this story--- except maybe from the "blaring obscenities in church" angle.

[Bake]

26. I wouldn't care if it were a Catholic , Methodist, or Presbyterian Church

It would still have been a juvenile act. Even at a Baptist church.

You took this story as the opportunity to hijack the thread with one of your pet issues. You got called on it.

Bake

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Somehow I think I'll survive. nt

[Dorian Gray]

33. The Catholic Church has had members in leadership positions

who have betrayed and abused their congregations. Yes. I think we can all admit that. It still has nothing to do with this topic, though.

[Swamp Rat]

29. LOLOLOLOL!!!!!

Keystone Cops :rofl:

[Caoimhe]

30. Shhh You aren't supposed to laugh

this morning on the Today Show they showed an older gentleman describing what was on the tapes. He said it sounded like a woman and then he began to go "Oh.. Uh.. Oh.. Uh" with a completely straight face.

I lost it laughing.

[Dorian Gray]

34. Now THAT is funny.

:D

[verse18]

31. Speaking of foul-mouthed-

Was Dick "Go Fuck Yourself" Cheney on the CDs?