Threat of Capital Beltway shutdown is a hoax, trucker says

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/capital-beltway-shutdown-all-a-ploy-trucker-says/2013/10/08/1e446572-3033-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop

It can be hard to get attention for your agenda in a town like Washington, but Georgia trucker Earl Conlon figured out a way: Take the Beltway hostage.

Conlon’s comments in a U.S. News & World Report story that he and thousands of truckers from across the country (and possibly Canada) planned to come to the nation’s capital Friday and bring traffic to a standstill on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway zinged across the Web, picked up by outlets ranging from Fox News to the Huffington Post. The rally was dubbed “Truckers for the Constitution.”

But alas, it is a hoax.

“The comments to U.S. News were designed to do one thing and one thing only: stir the feather of the mainstream media,” said Conlon, a father of three. “Nothing gets the attention of the mainstream media like some sort of disastrous threat. I knew it was going to ruffle some feathers.”

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. "Breaker 19, we ain't got no convoy"

Hehe.

[NutmegYankee]

2. Isn't making threats a crime?

[SlipperySlope]

3. LOL

The world just isn't bizarre enough.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

4. In other words, "I'm an attention-seeking liar", also known as "tea bagger".

I only maintain that 'baggers are human because I understand that dehumanization of a group is a dangerous thing. So 'baggers are people too. I think.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. I wasn't too worried

I imagine most truck drivers are too busy trying to make a living.

[Archae]

6. Translation: "We got ridiculed, so we're going to say it just a joke."

The Rush Limbaugh method of dealing with making a comment that turns out to be totally asisnine, quite often.

[kestrel91316]

7. He also threatened to kidnap members of Congress. He needs to be arrested and prosecuted himself.

[Hoyt]

8. Fool is trying to save face. He expected a bunch to join him, and it didn't happen.