Who does he think he is, the Joker?
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khaosworksPolice Say Bomb Suspect Aimed to Make 'Smiley Face'
Maybe we should really consider putting on capes and tights and duking it out in the streets...
The 21-year-old college student accused of planting pipe bombs across the U.S. Midwest planned to arrange the devices in the shape of a giant "smiley face" stretching across the map of the United States, authorities said on Thursday.I mean, holy theatrics of evil, Batman, what is it with bad guys these days? Osama taking a page out of Tom Clancy by slamming jets into buildings, and then this guy who comes up with a psycho plot straight out of Detective Comics...
Police said Luke Helder, an art student at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, divulged his design after he was arrested on Tuesday outside Reno, Nevada.
"Immediately after he was taken into custody, in a conversation with one of my deputies, he said something to the effect when he is finished he wanted to make a smiley face," Pershing County, Nevada, Sheriff Ron Skinner told Reuters.
Maybe we should really consider putting on capes and tights and duking it out in the streets...
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