What are you trying to show?
A car parked right outside the White House. Illegally. Not blowing up or being blown up.
Also, what will ringing the guy up achieve anyway?
Not blowing up some innocent guy's car and making a media debacle out of something, for starters.
Whatever the person on the other end may say, what reason would there be to believe them?
Honestly, I don't know how you Brits aren't understanding this concept. It's not exactly a radical line of thinking.
It doesn't matter
what they say on the phone, unless it's "yes, that's my car, and yes, I'm coming to move it right now". If that isn't the exact answer they get on the phone, or the car comes up anything less than clean... by all means, they should treat it as dangerous. But to bypass a simple record check just because of some knee-jerk reaction to OMG TERRORISM is just sloppy. I'd expect more from "the best anti-terrorism force in the world", frankly.
It is unbelievable how some people seem to care more about a car being blown up than the potential loss of life.
It's even more unbelievable how any rational thinking or simple fact-checking is all of a sudden acceptable to bypass when the
perceived threat of terrorism is involved.
Some consider that the terrorists winning, you know; that whole "living in irrational fear" stuff.
