It's comforting to know that we're doing all we can to prevent terrorism

[Locutus]

via Fark:

, yet a friggin' Mylar balloon can knock out power to a portion of a major metropolitan area

 

[gerryh]

No big surprise, you short out a power line you're going to get a power outage.

 

[L Gilbert]

Found a frazzed baldie across the road from here a few years ago. Poor eagle was in no condition to tell me if it's name was Ahmed or Alfred.
I wonder if anyone checked for bomb frags after the balloon committed suicide. Might have been able to figure out who built the bomb and where.