My feeling is that the people who did it were trying to be hip, cool, edgy...and they went over the edge. In retrospect, the city overreacted, but they didn't really have a choice -- they have to assume the worst, because the cost of being wrong is so high.
I think the perpetrators and the people who unleashed them should be held responsible for the costs of the city's response. How much should that be? Well, I think it ought to be substantial. Some amount of it likely would have been spent, regardless; and if the amount is high enough, adding a punitive amount would seem redundant.
Yesterday, my cell phone rang. I don't normally carry it, but today I was. The caller was the local 911 service, saying that they'd gotten a call from my number, and was there a problem? I was startled -- and yet there it was, on the call log. Somehow, the two step process -- hit '9', then 'send' -- had occurred while the phone was in my pocket. (Why have it at all? So I don't have to look down at the phone while driving. ) Nothing came of it -- but suppose they'd dispatched a cop to where I was (assuming they could find it), or suppose I now get a bill for their time in calling me. Would that be fair?
Yeah, I think it would. I hope they don't, and if they do, I hope they don't make it a large bill, but yeah, I think it'd be fair. I made them react.
Oh, and I took the autodial for '9' off my phyone.
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