What would inspire a man to arrive at the Liberty Bell with a back pack without a bomb, give said backpack to a security guard, tell the guard that there was a bomb in it, and take off running? Some have noted that the man was previously very interested in renovating the Arizona capitol, as if the idea took root in his head and went round and round until it completely possessed him and he decided that one crack in the liberty bell WAS JUST NOT ENOUGH?
Angrycat's theory: The guy is there on a family outing that involves them all meeting and gazing at the blessed bell. See, the man is married with a child. Their precocious child is obsessed with American history who has decided that what he wants to do for his tenth birthday is see The! Liberty! Bell! HOWEVER the man is in the midst of a mid-life crisis that he has thus far kept hidden from his family. The man's mistress has dumped him. He realizes that he perhaps never loved his wife, and he hates himself for this, hates himself for having the affair, hates himself for being dumped. He wonders if he even loves his child, their beautiful, bespectacled, brilliant boy who brings nothing home from school but straight As and praise from his teachers.
How could I be such a bad man, a horrible man, a man unloved and incapable of loving -- why, he says to himself, why not go all the way? Why not say:
I AM THE LIBERTY BELL BOMBER!
Angrycat alerts you to the bomb -- in your PANTS
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