I wonder what belonging of steviedee’s was stolen that has him so touchy? (Personally, I’m still hoping to someday find whoever stole the stereo out of my car in 1979, just for a polite conversation between him, me, and a blunt instrument.) (And the guy who stole our minivan in 2008… gotta admit, the idea of hanging has a certain appeal in that case.)
Some fucker took my bike last month. Hanging’s too good for 'em, I say!
Once you realize that you have stupidly stolen a bomb, who do you return it to?
Granted there are some ethical confusions here, but the lack of ethics of a thief of an apparently abandoned backpack versus the absence of ethics of the bomber who left it there are really not in the same universe.
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That’s probably the only protection Donald Trump has.
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He’s a bit of a bomb thrower, when they aren’t too heavy.
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A theft foiled by the thieves becoming exhausted after less than a quarter mile may be the most poignant indictment of America’s sedentary culture in a long time.
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It was lack of lung capacity that saved the day 
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I love how the narrative can be put out that even America’s thieves/scavengers are patriotic! They said something when they saw something! I suspect though, that he guys who reported the backpack were snitches or undercover cops.
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This is the most Jersey story ever.
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That comment is an anomaly. Welcome to prime and some of the smartest posters on the internet. You’ll get to recognize them by name in the near future.
Oh, so they’re “scavengers.” Must be two white dudes.
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TPM is becoming as bad as Fox News with it’s headlines. Here is part of the opening paragraph from the NY Times, "swiped has nothing to fo with the incident.
NY Times: “…two men walked out of Hector’s Place Restaurant near the city’s train station and found a backpack containing five explosives resting atop a municipal garbage can, Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said.”
Repo Men comes to mind.
It is not illegal to take things out of the trash. Period.
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Maybe they would have looked inside to see if they could find information to contact the bag’s owner, and thus either discovered the bombs or been blown up in the process?
Ha . . . ha. You are a laugh riot.
You are slow to burn…