My hero this week is the yet-to-be-named Circuit City employee who helped thwart the Fort Dix terror plot earlier this week:

A male employee who works at Circuit City behind the Moorestown Mall is the unsung hero that first enabled authorities to foil the Fort Dix terror plot.

Circuit City corporate spokesman Jim Babb confirmed this morning that a current employee was asked by one of the alleged terrorists to dub a Jihadist training VHS cassette into a DVD.

The clerk alerted Mount Laurel police about the video in January 2006, who then contacted the FBI, which launched the investigation.

Glad some people are still paying attention to this kind of thing.

My hack this week is the Movie Picture Association of America (MPAA) board for ratings:

The MPAA said Thursday that its rating board will consider film depictions of smoking among the criteria for assigning movie ratings...when a film's rating is affected by the depiction of smoking, the rating will include such phrases as "glamorized smoking" or "pervasive smoking."

I don't smoke, but this just seems really stupid.

Labels: Hero/Hack, Movies, Terrorism

Posted by Ryan S. on Friday, May 11, 2007 at 9:24 AM | Permalink |