Notes » December 2002

Bin Loser

A hairdresser who called himself Hong Kong bin Laden was sent to prison for six years and eight months.

The 45-year-old man threatened a "Hong Kong version" of the September 11 attacks, saying his objective was to force the resignations of several top ranking government officials, including the Chief Executive.

His short-lived terror campaign, which failed to terrorise anyone, consisted of planting poisoned food in two grocery stores and sending threatening letters to several newspapers. The judge said the case had a "high degree of sophistication and meticulous planning in its execution", and said that the "action may have triggered mass hysteria had the police not acted swiftly".

If this loser was so meticulous, why'd he get caught?

If he wanted to be like bin Laden, he should have first learned how to evade law enforcement.

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