Hmm, lets kill people in many states drawing out a smile on the face. Let’s mangle their faces! Except, when you actually read the news, you find out that the last 18 bombs he made weren’t rigged to blow up. Meaning that they were there to get attention. Doesn’t lessen the crime much, except to say that he prolly wouldn’t have blown up any more. The public knew what they were. My guess? He was planning on planting these things all over, but only as dummy bombs.
I think it’s funny, but in the ironic way, like when a clown dies. Maybe it was just a publicity stunt for his band 
I was rather disappointed with that story back in the fall. Crazy mid-east terrorists take over planes and cause huge firey explosions… can we say yawn? Hackneyed plot development, cheap drama over realism (I mena, c’mon, two skyscrapers destroyed?), sterotypical villians, and then that melodramatic, teary-eyed patriotism at the end. You made me miss Letterman for that? And yet it seemed rather popular; it was on all the networks practically all the time. No accounting for taste, I suppose.
At least this one had an interesting twist at the end, irreverant and wildly original. Plus enough violence to keep it interesting, but not to seem too scary. The only thing it was missing was a romantic subplot. I don’t know how they could forget about that. All in all, a good effort. I give it two thumbs up.
I can’t wait to see what they come up with next!
I wonder what the ratings got were for the pipe bomber episode for this season of Current Events.
Considering that one of the jobs my son (age 6) loves to do is to get the mail… I don’t find this funny at all.
Dear Lord,
I’ve not asked you for much and this is such a small thing. Please, please, please let me be picked to sit on this fucker’s jury.
You think the smiley face was funny/surreal? When I heard that he’d gone to college in Menomonie, Wisconsin, the first thought to cross my mind was the Muppets: “Menomonie, doo-doo da doo-doo, Menomonie, doo-doo da doo…” Now that’s surreal.
He wanted attention; he got it. Hope he enjoys it to the hilt, as it were.
I agree with the people in this thread who say that mentally ill people should be brutally mutilated, given to prisoners to be raped, and then executed! Illness is a sign of weak character and only a Liberal pussy would try to treat a mentally ill person! Everyone put on your Klan hoods and meet me at the hospital with your torches, rope and shotguns! We’ll show these loonies how morally superior we are!
Bob Scene, I can’t speak for everyone, but I don’t believe Helder is mentally ill.
You think a sane person wrote this?
Hm. I’ll get back to you.
In the meantime, no, I don’t think mentally ill people should be tortured and executed. But if Helder is not such a person, to the gallows with him.
So what is significant about the year 2011, when he says he will see us all? I thought the significant date was December 21, 2012? That’s what Terrence McKenna claims, anyway. Something about the plane of the ecliptic aligning precisely with the galactic center, which was predicted by the Maya, or something.
The guy had an epiphany. Right or wrong, they’ll do that to a person sometimes: onset of manic state, total clarity of vision (at least from his point of view), boundless energy and enthusiasm, willingness to throw caution to the winds and sacrifice anything/everything due to the fundamental knowledge that Everything’s going to work out okay because he has SEEN THE TRUTH.
Interesting question, probably more suited to GD than the Pit:
What if he’s right? Is he still insane, or are we (and he just seems that way to the rest of us)?
First, the kid is apparently mentally imbalanced, and did something of which he apparently has no conception of the consequences.
Second, has it occurred to any of you that we have the perfect defense against somebody trying to draw a smiley on the map with explosives?
Hey, Chief Scott!!!