I will not explain. I will make you watch the video first.

Via Lowering the Bar, which describes it thusly:

The incident involved not one but two geniuses. The brains of the operation was a 39-year-old man who said that after the theater shooting in Colorado, he wanted to find out how long it would take police in his area to respond to a similar report. “I wanted to run a little test here in Phoenix, Arizona,” he said while narrating a video of the event that he posted on YouTube. “I want to find out how safe I really am, and I want to know the response time of the Phoenix police department.”

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Still, on Monday (almost two months after the incident) police did arrest the man. They charged him with endangerment, which seems potentially valid, and “creating a false impression of a terrorist act,” which to me is more questionable. If what someone did endangered others, that’s a crime, so why do we need to pile on with more “anti-terror” laws that at least potentially infringe on free speech? The man was also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor (I guess so) and “misconduct involving simulated explosives” (same objection).

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