The phone calls, they're coming from inside the station!

What is this new trend of phoning in fake crimes at T stations? This is the same thing that happened a few weeks ago on the Blue Line at rush hour because supposedly some nut phoned in that they saw "young Arab men with backpacks all getting on different cars of the train", which was later determined to be false. I was stuck on that train for 30 minutes while security theater of the absurd ensued.

We've got geniuses like you, firmament. I'm sure if we had more like you, we could just ignore everything, fully secure in knowing that nothing bad ever happens, well, at least, not to you, apparently. Sorry, but if you want to hang around your place of work if a bomb threat is called in, or if you'd like to hop on the train when something similar has been called in, you go right ahead. Call me a "nanny state refugee" but, I also read the papers, and if someone had noticed the Tsarnaevs and not called it in, what would you say about that? Sure, there's a difference between pranks and calling in actual threats, but until they're investigated, call me crazy, but I'd rather err on the side of caution. I'd love it if the T or whoever would notice a pattern and do something (like posting a picture of the people involved in the pranks), but, it takes more than one call to create a pattern, and, now they're posting the picture. Seems like a rational path to me.

Firmament? Sorry, it just seems to me that using a nom de plume is about equal to me just commenting, isn't it? What I know is simple. People do all sorts of messed up things. Box cutters? Who the hell knows about that? Not me. Do I think taking my shoes off at Logan does any good? No, that's stupid. On the other hand, like I said, if you want to run into a building to get some work done, or jump on the train to head in to do some shopping after a threat has been called in, you're either living in a dream, or not too bright, or maybe both. Like I said, people do messed up things, and sometimes, someone else notices it, and calls the police. Calling in phony threats is as old as the telephone itself, and probably older. It doesn't mean that real threats never happen, and if I notice it, or someone else does they should make sure nothing further happens. As someone else said above, if someone legitimate noticed something out of line and called authorities, and the call was ignored, you'd probably be calling THAT a conspiracy along with your box cutter theory.