Man threatens to blow up state building’s misspelled sign

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By Dylan Stableford
Yahoo! News | The Lookout
2 hrs 21 mins ago

An Oregon man walked into a state office on Wednesday with a pressure cooker he claimed was a bomb and told employees he tried to blow up a sign outside the building because it was misspelled.

Leonard Burdek, a 50-year-old from Salem, Ore., arrived at the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission offices shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday.

“He walked quite confidently into our office as though he had a mission," Vickie Chamberlain, the commission's executive director, told the Statesman Journal. "That was what alarmed me right off the bat."

Burdek allegedly placed the pressure cooker—wires sticking out of it—on the counter in front of the receptionist, informing her of his failed bomb plot. The man also allegedly complained that the instructions he downloaded to make the device also were misspelled.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/misspelled-sign-pressure-cooker-bomb-130257088.html

Grammar terrorists are worse than grammar Nazis.

[KurtNYC]

1. He was taken to a criminal pschologist who comforted him by saying:

"There, their, they're...."

[cliffordu]

8. DuZY!!!!!!

[LeftofObama]

10. ROFLMAO!!

OK, that one made me spit Pepsi!

[eppur_se_muova]

11. OK, it's mean to ask, but ...

what's a pschologist ?

[Lionel Mandrake]

14. That's easy.

A pschologist is an expert on the logos of the psyche.

[Wait Wut]

2. Whenever we drive to California...

...we have to pass through 'Hope, Arizona'. They have a sign as you're leaving town:

Your Now Beyond Hope

The husband starts giggling about a mile before we get to the sign because he knows I'm about to have a meltdown. Even better? The old sign was falling apart, so they replaced it...and didn't change it.

[Lionel Mandrake]

15. My Now Beyond Hope is funnier than your Now Beyond Hope.

[csziggy]

16. We adopted two kittens once and named them Hope and Gloria

After a short lived TV series. Hope disappeared, leaving Gloria alone.

We used to tell people that we were now Hope-less.

[RedCloud]

3. The "D" got expunged?

Sounds like grade inflation to me.

[pokerfan]

7. Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Looks fine on my end:

[In_The_Wind]

4. D'oh

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. "the instructions he downloaded to make the device also were misspelled. "

First they came for the spelelrs..........

[KamaAina]

6. The "Teacher Standards an Practices Commission"?!

EPIC FAIL!!

[Callmecrazy]

9. I'm tellin'ya...

This countries goeing strate to hell!

[Incitatus]

12. He could have just fixed the sign himself, but okay. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

13. And be arrested for vandalism ?? Are you out of your mind ?!?

(yes, it's )

[Incitatus]

17. The sarcasm is clear.

But a charge if he tried would be no surprise, and make for just as a ridiculous story.

[RILib]

19. vigilantism

Someone painted graffiti on a large utility box near where I live. The utility said it takes months to get to those, if ever, so I overpainted it myself.

I just might be tempted to fix that sign, only I'd do it in red, like correcting a paper.

[edbermac]

18. The ultimate Grammar Nazi.