After this month's dramatic spike in the number suspicious package bomb scares, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne predicted that the alarms "will eventually taper off. People are being more vigilant." But down in SoHo, vigilance took the form of apathy yesterday, when a suspicious package on a traffic control box failed to elicit any panic. Perhaps that's because, as you can see here, the package in question was clearly labeled "Suspisious Package" by some artsy provocateur desperately in need of a copy editor.
Obviously, there was no need for concern because a real terrorist would never be so obvious. (Nor would a real artist.) The problem now is that if any terrorists are reading this, they now know the best way to plant a bomb is to simply paint "ACME BOMB" on the side in cartoonish red letters, and drop it off in SoHo or Chelsea or anywhere where people are jaded by "edgy" conceptual art. [Via Huff Post]
