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By: archenemy blog » Your homeland security dollars at work

archenemy blog » Your homeland security dollars at work — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:54:24 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:10:44 +0000

I just heard about this from our grandmother (I’m one of Matt’s cousins). Observations:
1. Talking about how non-lethal a particular gun is constitutes a terroristic threat?
2. I’m sure until now I was the member of the family considered most likely to lose a job over making threats of violence. Thanks for taking that on, Matt.

Funny how different places reacted to VT…at my work, loads of people are suggesting that we faculty ought to be able (or even required, according to one idi–I mean, esteemed colleague) to carry guns. Uh, yeah. I’m not sure putting me in a room with 26 young adults irritating the shit out of me is a good idea when I’m *not* armed. I mean, I have this habit of totally losing my shit with students, after politely asking them 5 or 6 times to put away their cell phones, stop talking to their neighbor, and refrain from cheating. (HENCE, if any members of law enforcement are reading this, my conviction that I should not be carrying a gun in class, which I am not and have no intention of ever doing.)

By: WendellWit » Blog Archive » In the immortal words of Daffy Duck: Shoot Me Now!

Fri, 11 May 2007 16:23:58 +0000

[...] A rather unhappy story of our paranoid times is that of Matt Boyd, who got into a conversation in his office about a gun he wanted to buy. But he did it the day of the Virginia Tech shootings (before he had even heard the news) and one or more coworkers who had heard the news and overheard him freaked out and reported him to management. He was fired. Now, normally, that would be all, but Matt is the co-author of, not a blog, but a bloggy “personal journal” webcomic titled “Three Panel Soul”, so, obviously the incident was the subject of a short series of strips. And a couple days after their weblication*, he got a visit from investigators from the State’s Attorney’s Office regarding what they considered a “borderline terroristic threat” (the investigators’ own words… Mr. Boyd tell the whole story here). [...]

By: Lemony Vengeance

Lemony Vengeance — Thu, 10 May 2007 23:54:30 +0000

HA!! Leave it to the SMIBs (Southern Maryland In-breds) to interperate a comical conversation into a terror threat…

By: Mac Hall Duo Back, Now With 50% More Terror! at Localoaf - Information: It’s the Magic

Thu, 10 May 2007 17:55:57 +0000

[...] Late, late story, but Matt and Ian of Mac Hall fame are back with a new web comic, Three Panel Soul, showing off a much wider range of Ian’s artistic ability. Sadly, the news comes with a scary addendum: Matt was fired from a government contract job for just talking about guns at work after the school shootings at Virginia Tech. He then made a comic about it, which got him a visit by the police. You can read more about it at Fleen. [...]

By: Stu Liming

Stu Liming — Thu, 10 May 2007 07:33:18 +0000

Matt and all others,

Man, I really udnerstand what’s happened. I too recently resigned over a startingly similar matter, in which I sarcastically told a co-worker that “I needed a handgun.” I didn’t really mean I needed a firearm, and I still don’t. Know that I feel for you Matt, and I am really encouraged by your attitude right now about all this.

By: Matt Boyd

Matt Boyd — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:43:58 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Steven. I’m not a gun guy, so what I know is really just from reading online.

Honestly, if I’d known that the VT shootings involved a .22 pistol at close range, fired repeatedly, I probably wouldn’t have done all three of the comics. (And if I’d known the full extent of VT, I probably would have kept my dumb mouth shut, but the story was still breaking and I was at work.)

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:05:06 +0000

Crazy, absolutely crazy. We haven’t reached those heady heights of insanity yet here in the UK, but I don’t think it’ll be too long. Part of the overreaction after they didn’t pick up on the Virginia State University guy, so for the next 6 months to a year, they’ll jump on anyone who even looks at them funny.

By: Straw Man Talks » Blog Archive » Some Links in Regards to the Web Comic Threat

Tue, 08 May 2007 21:49:02 +0000

[...] Interview With The Vampire Terror Suspect Editor’s note: Matt Boyd was kind enough to talk to Fleen about his recent experiences; what follows is a lightly-edited transcript of a Gmail Chat session. … - Fleen [...]

By: edc

edc — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:48:26 +0000

Maybe Matt can get a job writing the question for dc?