Three quick hits

1) Strangest comment by a college student this week — hell, actually in quite some time:

After a skeleton was found during construction work at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, freshman Scott Eul, 19, was quoted as saying:

“It’s really scary. If it is a dead person, I hope it’s from a long time ago.”

2) Further proof that criminals aren’t really very smart:

A man in Santa Fe, N.M., was arrested Tuesday for violating his probation by possessing stolen property.

The bust occurred after Victor Lopez, 32, walked into a meeting with his probation officer with a stolen $2,500 Rolex watch on his wrist.

… Did they get the Beemer in the parking lot he just carjacked?

3) Scariest headline this week — hell, actually in quite some time:

(from USA Today Web site, Thursday, Oct. 18)

“Most fake bombs missed by screeners”

Seems that the security screeners at LAX missed three-fourths of the fake bombs put into their normal load of suitcases, purses, etc.

At Chicago’s O’Hare, it wasn’t much better; 60 percent of the fake bombs were missed.

I wonder if the supervisor of any of these highly trained barriers to terrorists said the next day during the morning staff meeting, “Hey, guys, we can do better than this! Let’s at least shoot for missing only half of the fake bombs, OK? Thanks; I'd appreciate your cooperation.”