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2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon

Posted by samzenpus on from the firing-the-cancer-gun dept.

gurps_npc writes "Two radical pro-Israel terrorists were caught in upstate NY when they tried to solicit money from various honorable Jewish organizations to build a truck based x-ray weapon. They intended to drive the truck around and then turn on the x-ray machine, focusing on enemies of Israel. But the Jewish organizations they tried to solicit money from refused to participate. Instead they called the FBI, who promptly set up a sting. The men were arrested before the machine was in working order."

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  1. A conspiracy... by Roachie · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I can see right thru it.

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    1. Re:A conspiracy... by similar_name · · Score: 5, Funny

      My x-ray gun is purely for hunting.

    2. Re:A conspiracy... by flyneye · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year! They oughta have 'em, too. --Dr.J.Frank Parnell

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    3. Re:A conspiracy... by flyneye · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, The Judean Peoples Front.

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    4. Re:A conspiracy... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Do you seriously expect something refined from a KKK member? Their sole existence seems to be oriented towards being used for parody.

      It's kind of a nuisance that the biggest fans of the 'white race' tend to be walking arguments against it. Why don't they try the "Ha! I'll show the mud races what's what by being a successful human being!" a bit more often?

    5. Re:A conspiracy... by FatLittleMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      In case you haven't noticed, not every terrorist and terrorist-wannabe is a genius.

      Bitch, please. Muslim terrorists build bombs out of pressure cookers. These Jewish terrorists wanted to build a fucking death ray.

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    6. Re:A conspiracy... by alantus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Bitch, please. Muslim terrorists build bombs out of pressure cookers. These Jewish terrorists wanted to build a fucking death ray.

      Except that the terrorists are not jewish. They were trying to get funding by jewish organizations by promising to target enemies of Israel.
      Instead of funding them, the jewish organizations contacted the FBI.

      So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.

      It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.

  2. I used to work with stuff like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    http://www.balteau.com/upload/normal/ceram35_hx.jpg

    Big old X-ray tubes that are used for taking pictures of welds in bulkheads, etc. I heard a story that some guy in the '80s killed one of his co-workers on purpose by aiming the tube through a wall at his victim. Having worked with the bigger tubes, I can see it.

  3. Odd morning by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What's that big truck in front of our office?"

    "I don't know, and why is your spleen showing on my laptop?"

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  4. Re:weeeeak by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly, the gear could be man-portable. This is actually an amazingly brilliant plot, you're not around when the victim dies, you leave no evidence on the victim, even if someone spots you during the assassination they couldn't tell you're killing the person (just holding a suitcase near them or backing them with a backpack). This is the most impressively clever thing I've heard of in ages, I'm kind of jealous I never thought of it myself.

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  5. Re:The system worked by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really glad to hear that it was Jewish Americans who turned the crazies in. Hopefully many of the mosques in America that encounter radical and/or terrorism sympathetic persons will rise to the occasion and do the same when they hear something actionable, instead of waiting for the government to find the bad guys without assistance.

    That is, in fact, the norm rather than the exception.

    Did I dodge the knee jerk liberal piling-on?

    No, you just told us that you don't know how liberals think.

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  6. Re:Whatever gave them that idea? by klingers48 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly when someone tells you that they don't need to learn how to land the X-ray machine is the point you should be ringing the FBI.

  7. Re:A conspiracy... proving you wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Timothy McVeigh. Blew up Oklahoma building.

    Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

    David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.

    So many idiots going in and shooting up schools.

    Not one of them muslim.