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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
-- H.L. Mencken
Just Responding to the Bat Signal
2004-09-14 21:56:25
A man dressed as Batman managed to evade security at Buckingham Palace in London and scale the wall of the palace. Police on the scene were able to determine that the man was not a terrorist due to the fact that he looked funny.
Palace staff were said to be "gobsmacked", an English word meaning "we don't know shit about security."
Another man dressed as Robin, who also tried to break into the palace, was stopped by police then immediately set free.
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