Discussion: Guys Who Swiped NJ Backpack End Up With More Than They Bargained For

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If the bombs had gone off,the perps would’ve been forever known as Islamic terrorists.

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snark?

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Suicide thieves.

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If you read properly you’d see they were scavengers, not thieves. You must be a Trump supporter.
“two scavengers found the package while going through the trash. When pulling it apart, they found wires attached to the package. They then left the package under the train tracks and ran to a police station to report what they found.”

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So stuff it, Japan and Denmark, with your honest, law-abiding citizenry…American street thieves, our 1st line of defense!

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signed up to Prime for a better level of discussion than this… hanging dumpster divers!!!

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The article was a bit confusing. I couldn’t tell if the two “still-identified” men who picked up an unattended backpack were the same scavengers that reported the bomb or not.

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Well, if it means that much to you-

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You could just move to the Philippines.

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“If you see something, finders keepers.”
Something like that.

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Abandoned backpack, dude.

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I meant my comment for Steviedee111’ not you. Sorry for the confusion.

No, Stevie. You can’t hang people just because you personally find them objectionable.

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Actually, in Japan they backpack would have been taken to a conductor as soon as it was found.

The two still-identified men walked out of a restaurant, saw the backpack and thought it might be worth something so they picked it up and carried it away, according to a report from the New York Times.
“Thinking that it contained valuables, they had carried it perhaps 1,000 feet before becoming exhausted by its weight,” the New York Times reported Monday morning. “They set it down where their muscles gave out, beside an S.U.V. under the New Jersey Transit overpass on Broad Street at the station downtown.”

So it would seem that two thieves first picked up the back pack thinking it contained valuables but were too lazy to carry it too far because of it’s weight. From there it’s not clear if the thieves abandoned the back pack and it was then found by scavengers or if the thieves discovered the bombs and claimed to have found the back pack while scavenging.
But the fact remains that they took a back pack that was not theirs and made no attempt to return it to it’s rightful owner, that is stealing.

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“Actually,” jeffrey, it’s called a joke. but to get “granular” the bag, in Japan, wouldn’t have been opened and thus disarmed would it? The honest citizens and the conductor would have died or been injured.

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This is not the first time steviedee has shown himself to be holier than thou

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I wasn’t confused.

Edit to add: I should say I wasn’t confused about who you were replying to, the article on the other hand…

I thought he was doing a monty python bit, an attempt at gallows humor.

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