Comments on: Little people concealed in hockey bags fleece Swedish bus passengers http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 15:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Halloween Jack http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109601 Halloween Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109601 Let's just let Snopes look into this, mmmkay? Let’s just let Snopes look into this, mmmkay?

]]> By: Squashy http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109379 Squashy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109379 Round up the usual suspects (there can't be too many). Round up the usual suspects (there can’t be too many).

]]> By: arp http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109406 arp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109406 I blame the space roaches. I blame the space roaches.

]]> By: Dmitri http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109686 Dmitri Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109686 #6: MECHFISH - That was the first episode, and the guy wasn't a little people, they just had a very big suitcase and he was very skinny... heh As for the article, words like "random searches" were popping up, which is never a good sign. A follow up article says that they are planning to put cameras in the cargo hold to catch them in the act, and will be checking "suspicious bags". Of course, I doubt that the thieves will try again considering the media attention. It's a shame that more and more security is needed. Next they'll be x-raying your bags before you're allowed to board. I think Greyhound's (at least in Canada) solution is best. Let the driver (or station staff) "load" the bags. That way, any unwelcome guests will be unable to muffle their yelps when the bag they are in is hurled in and out of the hold ;-) #6: MECHFISH – That was the first episode, and the guy wasn’t a little people, they just had a very big suitcase and he was very skinny… heh

As for the article, words like “random searches” were popping up, which is never a good sign. A follow up article says that they are planning to put cameras in the cargo hold to catch them in the act, and will be checking “suspicious bags”. Of course, I doubt that the thieves will try again considering the media attention.

It’s a shame that more and more security is needed. Next they’ll be x-raying your bags before you’re allowed to board.

I think Greyhound’s (at least in Canada) solution is best. Let the driver (or station staff) “load” the bags. That way, any unwelcome guests will be unable to muffle their yelps when the bag they are in is hurled in and out of the hold ;-)

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109691 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109691 just flood the cargo holds with nitrogen just flood the cargo holds with nitrogen

]]> By: Van Diemen http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109438 Van Diemen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109438 Spelling mistake "reaced their destination" Spelling mistake “reaced their destination”

]]> By: angusm http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109700 angusm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109700 Oh man ... what if there were _two_ little people loaded by different gangs on the same bus? And they both got out of their cases and started fighting in the hold, while the bus is on the freeway? But the police have planted a third little person in another bag, and at the height of the fight, he breaks out and tries to arrest them. But he's in plainclothes, so the little FBI agent in the fourth bag doesn't believe he's a cop. And ... Tell me you wouldn't pay to see this movie. Oh man … what if there were _two_ little people loaded by different gangs on the same bus? And they both got out of their cases and started fighting in the hold, while the bus is on the freeway?

But the police have planted a third little person in another bag, and at the height of the fight, he breaks out and tries to arrest them. But he’s in plainclothes, so the little FBI agent in the fourth bag doesn’t believe he’s a cop. And …

Tell me you wouldn’t pay to see this movie.

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109190 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109190 If the little people are stooges for the mob, that's awful, but if the little people are actually running it, that would be kinda cool. If the little people are stooges for the mob, that’s awful, but if the little people are actually running it, that would be kinda cool.

]]> By: HOTDAMN http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109459 HOTDAMN Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109459 thats such a good idea. thats such a good idea.

]]> By: markbellis http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109716 markbellis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109716 Remember the scene in Buster Keaton's The General where the girl is smuggled into a train's baggage compartment in a duffel bag, then a huge trunk is dropped on her? Remember the scene in Buster Keaton’s The General where the girl is smuggled into a train’s baggage compartment in a duffel bag, then a huge trunk is dropped on her?

]]> By: Defiant1 http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109461 Defiant1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109461 TRUNK MONKEYS! TRUNK MONKEYS!

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109206 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109206 what's wrong with child labour? what’s wrong with child labour?

]]> By: Moon http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109225 Moon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109225 This smacks of desperation by the gangsters. How much loot could PEOPLE WHO RIDE IN BUSES have? This smacks of desperation by the gangsters. How much loot could PEOPLE WHO RIDE IN BUSES have?

]]> By: Antinous http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109233 Antinous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109233 Tak-kun, I have so many unusable punch lines for that... Why not hook the electric bumper device to the cargo hold! Tak-kun,

I have so many unusable punch lines for that…

Why not hook the electric bumper device to the cargo hold!

]]> By: noen http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109235 noen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109235 Bad Santa! Bad Santa!

]]> By: mechfish http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109240 mechfish Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109240 This was a great Mission Impossible episode back in the 1960s. Except that the tiny guy in the suitcase was a master safecracker, and the bus was a vault at some expensive Swiss hotel for spies, or something. This was a great Mission Impossible episode back in the 1960s. Except that the tiny guy in the suitcase was a master safecracker, and the bus was a vault at some expensive Swiss hotel for spies, or something.

]]> By: Santa's Knee http://boingboing.net/2008/01/21/little-people-concea.html#comment-109250 Santa's Knee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-109250 Gol-darned Jockeys!!! Gol-darned Jockeys!!!

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