A security camera recorded the man wearing dark sunglasses and a hooded sweat shirt as he walked by Boston’s Symphony Hall Feb. 9 and dropped a cardboard tube marked “Anthrax Beware” at the door.
Emergency medical crews raced to the site, firefighters cordoned off the area, police halted traffic and life froze to an anxious halt until a hazmat team signaled the all-clear: The tube was empty.
This could also be viewed as the enemy (extremists) performing these tasks so they can monitor our patterns of biological defenses.
This would allow them to set up their own patterns of either blocking our biological defenses or perhaps to allow them to design an escape pattern of their own. The perps that do get caught (found guilty of the act) should receive the highest degree of punishment possible. That may deter others from attempting such a stupid act.
I agree that these so called pranksters are simply seeking to disrupt the world in their own sick way for kicks.
However let us not forget that this could also be a direct(although ultimately non-lethal) means to attack us and achieve some of the same goals of any true terrorist attack (Attention and Fear being the two most prominent).
Could even be practice dry runs for possible future actual attacks to test our responders and for the terrorists to adjust their plans.
For all of you First Responders out there: God Bless, Keep the Faith and BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!