Terror Alert raised to Orange, "What do we do now?"

[pstans]

Ok, the terror alert has been raised to Orange. So what does that mean we are supposed to do? Go buy some duct tape? Drive with both eyes open instead of with one hand on our cell phones?

Shouldn't we have raised the terror alert before the attacks happened? That would have made sense. Too bad we are drunk at the wheel.

[Pawel K]

1. Load up your guns and go shooting any brown people you happen to see

I guess

[shoelace414]

2. orange? I guess that means I should vote Republican

[skooooo]

3. Get your double roll of duct tape out....

....and strap yourself to a chair! (After you tape up your windows.)

[TeeYiYi]

21. I have an old plastic shower curtain . . .

. . . and some empty bread bags. If I run out of duct tape, will scotch tape work?

TYY

[skooooo]

22. Can you share??

We can share duct tape, if you could spare a few bread bags w/wrappers. Meet me on ebay, ok?

[uppityperson]

39. Just cover your head.

If you don't have enough plastic and duct tape, it is recommended that you only cover your head.

[Coventina]

4. Correction to your final sentence. It should read:

Too bad we have a drunk at the wheel.

[bigtree]

5. duck and cover

[damntexdem]

33. Duct tape and cover?

But what about those Al Qaeda box cutters?

[getmeouttahere]

6. Remember right after 9/11....

when we were told to go about our business, and go shopping? This country is so monumentally FUBAR!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

36. Oh yeah

And Bush also said to take the family to DisneyWorld. Not DisneyLand, DisneyWorld.

[Mr_Spock]

7. Go out and party.

Then go drive drunk and get killed in a car crash.

[chelsea0011]

8. New York is in a heightened state of Orange....one more than orange?

and what does it mean when it reaches red?

[insane_cratic_gal]

12. at Red you duck and cover

your ass.

Red is "under attack"

[HockeyMom]

19. NY is always Orange

These alerts put it to Orange Plus.

[youthere]

25. "Orange Plus"-does that mean they've added calcium?

n/t

[HockeyMom]

42. I propose new color for NYC

PUMPKIN. In between Orange and Red. Could put up a big evil grinning Jack O'Lantern.

How is that?

[BronxBoy]

43. LOL

No. Crack and Jack Daniels

If we're going, we're reaally going

[damntexdem]

34. Maybe New Yorkers switch from ...

oranges to cranberries?

[underpants]

9. You are supposed to get behind your President like any good American would

How long do you think it will take for Bush's mouthpieces to blame the previous administration? Seriously would you be surprised.

[FreedomAngel82]

37. Of course

They'll find someway to blame Clinton like always. When will they give it up? He's been out of office over five years.

[deminks]

10. Go shopping!

Must keep the corporations alive!

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Whatever you do, DON'T PANIC

after that, well tehy will use this to try to scare you shitelss and activate your fear factor...

Look they want you to be afraid...

[skooooo]

23. I'm not scared!

[jobycom]

13. Florida should have been under ORange alert for the College World Series!

The Burnt Orange Longhorns kicked their butt!!

Other than that, .

[jobycom]

14. Wiggy dupe.

[Deja Q]

15. Duct tape from THE HOME DEPOT only, of cousse...

Wasn't the color code ditched?

[Dr.Phool]

16. Fuck the terrorists!!!

My more immediate concern is a fucking hurricane!

[politicaholic]

17. Coordinate our clothing properly, I suggest a swath of red...

just in case the terror threat level goes up mid day and you have nothing that matches.

I personally doubt that there was any indication that would have predicated the raising of the terror threat level especially the fact that the terror threat level is United States specific and not British. Their terror threat level is shown by a graphic depicting a pint glass and as full as it is that's how high the threat level is that day.

[Mist]

18. What are supposed to do now?

IIRC, this is the drill: be scared, go shopping, be scared, be suspicious of "unusual" or "foreign" types, be scared, and believe everything the gov't says.

[goodboy]

20. they didn't raise the alert BEFORE the attacks, because they had

NO FUCKING IDEA!!

"Intelligence" it seems...is an oxymorAn.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-512...

[skooooo]

24. Oh well DUH!

If they had alerted BEFOREHAND, then the terrorists would know that we knew they were going to attack! This way, the seemingly "late" terror alert now comes as a surprise to them!

[goodboy]

27. ever see the 'Burbs?

Walter: "Now they know that we know, that they know that we know!"

[skooooo]

28. lol..never saw it..

is it a movie or a tv series?

[goodboy]

41. movie with Tom Hanks in it...from the 80's. That scene was funny though!

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[uppityperson]

40. Well, OK, you convinced me with that.

wow. bye

[whistle]

26. Don't do anything different according to Secretary Chert(Jerk)off...

...go about our regular business, BUT STAY ALERT, KEEP EYES AND EARS OPEN, BE VIGILANT and if we see any terrorist activity, run like hell, save your own asses, don't look out for anyone but yourself.

[Johonny]

29. It means

the side gate will be closed at lunch time and I'll have to walk 5 minutes more to the main gate to go to lunch. What else it means...

[garybeck]

30. eat oranges, play basketball, buy orange duct tape

[damntexdem]

32. Do what we've always done: ignore it.

Homeland Gestapo seems to have not learned that Al Qaeda already has technology that can defeat plastic sheets and duct tape: they have box cutters.

[FreedomAngel82]

35. I saw a report a few minute's ago

from Brian Williams and he said it was raised orange only around places like subways and the like where the terrorist attacks were.

[LSK]

45. ummm, note to numnuts..

About the only place they wont attack would be a red state. They are not that stupid to attempt the exact same attack that everyone would be looking for.

[amazona]

38. hasn't really been raised to orange

The states are broke. Raising the terror alert to orange is not just a word, it means that states are required to spend more money securing potential targets. Therefore we don't get full-blown Orange Alerts any longer and haven't for some time.

Only the ground mass transit system has been put on orange level. They say specifically that the airlines and airports, for instance, will NOT be on orange.

However, there will be increased hiring and overtime of LEOs, security officers, etc. for ground mass transit such as subways.

Don't you find this to be a correct action or would you prefer for every "me too" kook who can construct a pipe bomb to jump on the bandwagon? There does need to be additional security for a time after such actions. There are too many suggestible people out there willing to do stupid things to call attention to themselves.

[BronxBoy]

44. Is Orange Bad?

I don't know this f**kng scale