Saturday, March 17, 2007
A memo to myself
Rethink ordering take-out from that Chinese restaurant.
The Emperor's New Security Detail
You're about to read a real-life heist story. Super Bowl XLI was a Level One national security event, usually reserved for Presidential inaugurations. We had to get two full vanloads of materials through federal marshals, Homeland Security agents, police, police dogs, bomb squads, ATF personnel, robots, and a five-ton state-of-the-art X-ray crane. It took four months and a dozen people to pull off the prank that ended up fooling the world.
This is the Super Stunt.
Via Jason Kottke, Super stunt: The most ambitious prank in history.
On the one hand, I think this is great that four guys were able to pull
this off and to show just how silly excessive security really is. On the
other hand, this is downright scary that four guys were able to pull this off
at a Level One National Security Event. On the gripping hand, I hope the guys
don't end up at Guantanamo Bay for pointing out the Emperor's
President's new security detail.
