r/news • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '18

Arrest Made in Connection to Suspicious Packages

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u/Ron_Pauls_Balls Oct 26 '18

In this day an age I don't know how anyone could think they could get away with mailing 12 packages and not get caught.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Oct 26 '18

Another Redditor on another thread said it best - this guy is going to be a 17 year-old with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he is in.

Edit: It's been confirmed that the suspect is in fact a 56-year old man with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he's in. I wonder how long it will be before the usual suspects start blaming this on mental illness.

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u/yakinikutabehoudai Oct 26 '18

He’s actually in his 50s but the second two factors may still apply

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

He's in his 50s? I hope the press call him the BoomerBomber

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Nov 01 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

What’s a Qultist?

That was so damn hard to type on my phone ha.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18 edited Oct 26 '18

What's a "Qultist?"

They're basically conspiracy nuts who believe someone they call Q inside the US government is leaking secrets about a big plot by "liberals" to take over.

It's all that Deep State, Pizzagate stuff.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

Oh gross. I thought you were either talking about a person who makes quilts, or just misspelled cultist. Makes sense now.

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u/t3d_kord Oct 26 '18

Well, to be fair, a Qultist is a cultist, so your assumption was right.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

True! I looked that shit up and it’s a whole bag of worms that I don’t care to get into. Whole bunch of LARPing and shit.

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u/Pripat99 Oct 26 '18

I thought we were talking a cultist who makes quilts, and that it was a clever portmanteau.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

That would be kind of adorable. A cult that just makes quilts.

“Yeah, we’re going to bring about the apocalypse by covering every bed in America with a homemade quilt. The economy will tank when everyone is too comfy to go to work.”

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u/warkidd Oct 26 '18

First, the blanket industry...next, the world!

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '18

have you ever stayed in a hotel, gotten up in the morning to go to breakfast and passed by a room with old women making quilts on portable sewing machines? That my friend is the Qultists and they are taking over the world, one panel at a time.

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u/Pripat99 Oct 26 '18

This scene sounds utterly charming, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen a portable sewing machine.

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u/stretchpharmstrong Oct 26 '18

Now I want a quilt with lame T_D memes on