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.
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