HASH HOUSE HARRIERS GO TO JAIL!

Always give them your Hash Name.

This has to be the most ridiculous story of the decade.

The hashers are in deep s--t, of course. The only thing more deadly the a cop who is being shot at is one who has, through his own idiocy, made himself look like Inspector Clouseau. They will throw the book AND the printing press at these poor fun loving runners.

Somebody please PLEASE submit this story to Leno, et. al. This is just too rich.

How would any random person know that someone might be throwing flour onto the ground at a public shopping center for purely innocent reasons? Why should it not look suspicious to anyone unfamiliar with an underground running cult?

So now that the IKEA employees found a way to take the day off work (their boss will pay them undoubtedly), because a pile of feared flour was seen in their parking lot, what would be more ridiculous? How about local cops and an imbecile mayor spending good taxpayer money to pursue legal action against a couple fun loving hashers. I agree with the poster about the "shaking in their boots" mentality that people in this country have reverted to.

Next thing we know, we all will need security clearances to purchase flour (an obvious weapon of mass destruction).

pathetic..we have truely become a pussy nation....brainlessly over policed.

Good idea, Kudzu. Leno would love this story. "I'll run a few miles have a couple of beers and follow the arrows into a parking lot"....I know this is history repeating itself, it happened in Wichita Ks several years ago and they thought the powder was anthrax. It sounds like somebody needs some news every so often and HHH are ready with plenty to talk about.You don't have to put on your red "dress", Roxanne.

I think HHH are getting lots of pub out of this and will have a raft of new members.

Al Kayda wrote:

How would any random person know that someone might be throwing flour onto the ground at a public shopping center for purely innocent reasons? Why should it not look suspicious to anyone unfamiliar with an underground running cult?

Why the hell do we have to be suspicious of anyone who is doing something that we don't fully understand? Rather than just saying "not sure why they're doing that, but I'm sure they have their reasons" the first response is to assume that they're trying to kill people. Yeah, that's rational.

What if someone accidentally rips open a bag of flour in the grocery store parking lot while putting it in their car. Then, frustrated, drive away, leaving the powder there.

I bet we get these fear-monger whores overreacting about the powder in the parking lot for a place that specifically sells non-harmful powders.

Stupid.

Thread of the week. I laughed out loud 4 times.

wow, what kind of idiots think that terrorists who wanted to kill someone would actually lay their white powder down in the shape of arrows?

bin laden got just what he wanted, a bunch of people who got their common sense scared out of them.

dukerdog wrote:

New York Times said

The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.

So did they evacuate into the parking lot?

Good one!

this is so unbelievable I was on the floor laughing. Poor guys! Heck, HHH international should defend them from the real cause of alarm procured by the people thinking it was a terrorist attack...

Harriers are usually fun loving, running expats around the world. And it is true that the HASH is probably one of the only known ways of making fast runners and slow runners run relatively together on a varied and unusual course...

ON ON! Save the siblings...

this is so unbelievable I was on the floor laughing. Poor guys! Heck, HHH international should defend them from the real cause of alarm procured by the people thinking it was a terrorist attack...

Harriers are usually fun loving, running expats around the world. And it is true that the HASH is probably one of the only known ways of making fast runners and slow runners run relatively together on a varied and unusual course...

ON ON! Save the siblings...

Thanks to Mike Fanelli for delighting us with this absurdity.

Reminds me of the saying, "For those who think life is a comedy but for those who feel, life is a tragedy."

Tom

Al Kayda wrote:

How would any random person know that someone might be throwing flour onto the ground at a public shopping center for purely innocent reasons? Why should it not look suspicious to anyone unfamiliar with an underground running cult?

Harry Kooter wrote:

Why the hell do we have to be suspicious of anyone who is doing something that we don't fully understand? Rather than just saying "not sure why they're doing that, but I'm sure they have their reasons" the first response is to assume that they're trying to kill people. Yeah, that's rational.

No, it's not rational, but like someone above mentioned, take a gander at the country where the incident took place. Unless you're incredibly out-of-touch you'll realize just how much fear is being used to manipulate people (as if the fact that GWB remains in office isn't evidence enough of that).

Al Kayda wrote:

How would any random person know that someone might be throwing flour onto the ground at a public shopping center for purely innocent reasons? Why should it not look suspicious to anyone unfamiliar with an underground running cult?

It's hardly underground. Nearly 2,000 hashes worldwide and god only knows how many "members" as we pride ourselves on gross mismanagement.

Doubtful any other "running" group in the world is as big. Maybe no other "sporting" group in the world. (Is drinking a sport?)

Does anyone ever get concerned that the white powder on a soccer field might be the work of a terrorist?

Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows, who are due in court Sept. 14.

''You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,'' she said. ''It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We're thankful it wasn't, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.''

powder connected by arrows???????? obviously a terrorist threat.

You should definitely represent a city with your knowledge!

oh and a lot of resources?? i thought the guy cycled back and told you what was going on...

some f***ing people....

Article on the spokeswoman. She's kind of pretty.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/20537

I couldn't find an email for her, so maybe you can just email the mayor at:

MayorDeStefano@newhavenct.net