What are you trying to say? You said the barrel shaped thing look like a bomb but the others didn’t. And implied that the things that didn’t look like bombs should be ignored.
Are you suggesting that we should be concerned about things that don’t look like bombs?
Oh. my. god.
I am surrounded by things that don’t look like bombs! Right now!
I’m scared to move. Someone call 999.
Well, then she can’t be deported, by definition.
She was merely protecting us from aliens.
And the terrorists would take the bomb out of the bag… why, exactly?
- “Remember, Shwazilio,* even though it will draw attention to the device, and greatly increases the chances of our being noticed by the authorities and captured, it is absolutely necessary to remove the nail bomb from the bag before placing it. Otherwise the heavy paper will contain the blast, since the nails cannot penetrate it.” *
Then it would be pretty silly of the terrorists to take their bomb out of the bag, wouldn’t it?
In all seriousness, then: no, I don’t really blame people for expressing concern about the installations. Honestly, the pieces look like pretty damn implausible terrorist weapons to me, but who’s to say that the terrorists won’t go through a decorative phase one of these days? I suppose it could happen.
On the other hand, I also don’t really blame the artist herself for not accurately predicting the effect of her works. I’m guessing that very few such artists pause to consider, “Is there anything about my latest found-object sculptural assemblage project that could potentially throw the entire metropolitan area into chaos?” She probably wasn’t anticipating or hoping for any more media attention than perhaps a small writeup in the Shepherd’s Bush free newspaper. And when she heard about the brouhaha her work had touched off, she evidently marched right down to the police station to face the music.
Yet the fact that the authorities saw fit to let her off with a “slap on the wrist” seems like a profound miscarriage of justice to some people. The OP expresses outrage that she wasn’t punished more severely for the crime of setting “fake bombs,” even though all the evidence seems to indicate that** THERE WERE NO FAKE BOMBS.** What happened was a phenomenon known as a “mistake” or “false alarm,” because the artist failed to realize that a sizable portion of the London populace had been primed to reflexively urinate at the sight of a nail. Apparently the police showed laudable common sense in appreciating the circumstances, and didn’t feel it necessary to prosecute her into financial oblivion or deport her back to Nailvania.
*fourth most common name among London-based terrorists, after “Nigel,” “Al-Cholmondeley,” and “Turlough.”