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After stealing a scene in Spidey 3, here's Bruce again.

This is crazy.

A newspaper reported today that mobile phone calls in Sydney'sCBD would be blocked by a sophisticated counter-terrorism measureto prevent bomb attacks while US President George Bush was inSydney for the summit..
The President's motorcade would be shadowed by a helicopterequipped with signal-jamming equipment, the paper said.
Terrorists have used mobile phones to detonate remote-controlledbombs in attacks in Iraq and Bali.

Were I a terrorist, which I'm not, I'd be looking at another method to set off bombs apart from a mobile phone. Something neolithic, maybe, like a shoelace fuse. In the good old days of personal fireworks, we used to snip off lengths of sandshoe lace, thread 'em onto penny bungers, start the end of the lace smouldering and make thereby timebombs. Or maybe a clock could be used as a timer, or a watch. Maybe everyone in the Sydney CBD should be asked to remove their shoelaces and watches, too...

Even easier. Dick Cheney has a dicky ticker. He's had more by-passes than the Hume Highway. Wanna off him? Get a brown paper bag into one of the sessions, blow it up and pop it like a balloon. The loud bang should see him off, unless he mistakes it for a shotgun going off in the face of one of his personal friends.

Oh yeah, and hi to all the spooks who flag this.