Everyone in Massachusetts is now a terrorist.

(Regarding that stupid Boston/ATHF Terror Skeer thing.)
And here’s how: “The General Laws of Massachusetts, which makes it a crime to place a “hoax device” with the intent to panic the public.”

So, in the phrase ‘hoax device’, where ‘device’ meaning ‘something that does something’ and ‘hoax’ meaning ‘doesn’t really’, ‘hoax device’ must mean ‘something that doesn’t do what one assumes it must do’.

In Massachussets, everything that isn’t a bomb might just be a hoax device! I can imagine the state of willy-shrinking fear the MA government is experiencing right now. Boston’s chief of police is probably curled into a fetal ball behind his desk right now, convinced that since the pizza on his desk isn’t ticking, it must be part of a TERIST plot to OVATHOW the GUBMIT.

Think about that. Everything in MA is an Illegal Terrorist Implement of Terrifying Terror! “Put down the sub sandwich device, and come out with your hands up!”

Worse, the absence of objects on, near, under, or inside one’s person most certainly proves that you’re up to something!