As Bugs Bunny would say, that is.
Boston bomb hoaxer left confetti-filled rice cooker on street
A deranged man in woman’s clothing caused a nightmare flashback Tuesday when he rushed the finish line of the Boston Marathon with an apparent hoax bomb made out of a confetti-filled rice cooker, reports said.
Kayvon Edson, 25, raced toward the spot shouting “Boston Strong” around 7 p.m. — just hours after a service commemorating the one-year anniversary of last year’s Marathon bombing that killed 3.
Because nothing says “laugh fest” like running around with a fake bomb on the first anniversary of a real bombing.
He was wearing a dress and a long black veil, according to CBS Boston.
Maybe he was channeling Lefty Frizzell, I don’t know.
“Performance Artist” has become “Being an idiot and claiming it is art”.
In the 1980’s in Chicago, such an “artist” decided that it would be a good idea to do something disruptive (although much less provocative) and painted a picture of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in a lingere. The piece, called Mirth and Girth was provocative to the government. Well, Bobby “Stalin” Rush, anyway. Rush, using Chicago police, siezed the painting from the public exhibit claiming it was offensive. (It was, but there is no crime in being a jerk.) As Harold Washington had recently died in office a few months before the work was displayed. (The work commenced after the death of the mayor, so no “I didn’t know he would die” defense here.)
While the art was offensive, it was not illegal. (Idiot boy in the story you have did the physical equivalent to yelling “fire” in a crowded movie house. Therefore, non-protected speech.) Rush’s response, however, was completely draconian and illegal. (Made me take a vow to never live in Crook County.)
Stupidity personified… and NOT the 15 minutes of fame I’m sure he was looking for!!!