# My God: fake bombs as 'performance art'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 27, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510 "2006-04-27T21:08:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510/21 "2006-04-29T15:27:55Z")

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I don’t think that anybody with an ounce of intelligence would mistake those things for real bombs. This is just outrage for the sport of it.

(Yes, other people could disguise fake “art” bombs as real bombs. They could also disguise garbage cans or flower pots. I think that’s a bogus concern).

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510/22 "2006-04-29T22:12:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]  
I(Yes, other people could disguise fake “art” bombs as real bombs. They could also disguise garbage cans or flower pots. I think that’s a bogus concern).  
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I was, of course, using hyperbole, but history shows that there’s little beyond the depravity of the worst of Man.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510/23 "2006-04-29T22:31:14Z")

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This is nothing new – Pamela Anderson has already done fake boobs as performance art.

**rereads thread title**

Oops – my bad.

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**Author:** ![Acqua\_Minerale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Acqua\_Minerale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acqua_Minerale)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510/24 "2006-04-30T00:26:33Z")

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SANTA CLARITA, California (AP) – A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise’s upcoming “Mission: Impossible III” got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.  
[http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/mistaken.bomb.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/mistaken.bomb.ap/index.html)

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-god-fake-bombs-as-performance-art/354510/25 "2006-04-30T00:36:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Acqua Minerale]  
SANTA CLARITA, California (AP) – A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise’s upcoming “Mission: Impossible III” got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.  
[http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/mistaken.bomb.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/mistaken.bomb.ap/index.html)  
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Even though I have no intention of seeing Mission Impossible 3, I think it’s still too early to call it a bomb.

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