9.18.2006

Hipsters left for living at terrorism event.

Hundreds play the part for antiterrorism drill - The Boston Globe:
Interviews with some of the 215 volunteer victims suggested that mistakes might have been made. The volunteers described passing rescue workers failing to ask them if they needed help, despite the index cards the volunteers wore indicating the seriousness of their condition: bleeding to death, radiation exposure, in shock. Other volunteers said officials were slow to bring buses to evacuate people fleeing the scene.
Begging the question of who'd want to bomb the CambridgeSide Galleria (a "hip urban center," according to its web site, in Cambridge, MA) anyway, you've got to figure when a guy's got a sign pinned to his freakin' chest that says "I'm bleeding to death" and goes unnoticed by rescue workers you've got a problem, somewhere, with the system, don't you?

Or maybe not. Maybe the rescue workers were just in a hurry to check out the new iPods at the Apple Store - which is, of course, in the CambridgeSide Galleria, a hip urban center. As you know.

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