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Earlier this week, some Pratt art students decided to leave a duffel bags and backpacks full crap (the Post, comic books) in various subway and cars stations in what the Daily News described as a "bid to show the ineptitude of the MTA and NYPD." And inside the packages? The MTA security saying, "See Something, Say Something." Well, it was an ultimately unsuccessful bid, as Robert Barrett and Jamie Davis were arrested and charged with planting fake bombs within five hours. The Daily News reports that the packages, which were left on the G, L, 5 and 1 trains and at the Union Square station, were found by passengers and MTA employees. And the police said that materials in the packages led them back to Barrett and Davis. Hilarious - they probably left junk mail in there! Either that or an art school enemy turned them in.
So, the lesson is: Don't underestimate the MTA or NYPD when it comes to foiling student art. And this might give the NYPD more fodder for bag checks. The police have their own fake-package- left-at-the-subway-platform program - Operation Lucky Bag.
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Sounds like it turned into a lovely art project, where the NYPD showed us the ineptitude of Pratt students.
Not that anyone needed to be told, but still...
full crap,yo
Actually, the arrest was quite po-mo.
The world is littered with former "Pratt art students" driving cabs and asking if you would like fries with that...
I think it should be:
The arrest by the po-po was po-mo.
I like that poster - it's like the robot is the one talking, and "we" refers to his people.
Pretty friggin' funny... They left bags with identifying materials all over the city to show how inept the *police* are?
Who's inept now?
Methinks when you end up making the object of your scorn looking smarter than you then your work has failed as art and as protest.
Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs.
"Pratt" is the sound my butt makes sometimes when I drop a bomb.
when i was at San Francisco Art Institute a guy in my class accidentally left a canon GL1 that the school owned in the subway station and MUNI thought it was a bomb so they destroyed it. they then realized what it had been and sent the pieces back to the school. it was funny except he owed the school alot of cash.
real cute. obviously art students wouldn't have jobs that they'd be commuting to so they would think potentially fucking up everyone else's commute would be artistic. what jackasses.
Ha! That'll show those idiot Pratt kids. Totally unrelated, I hope they wise up and stop walking around Bed-Stuy @ 2 a.m. w/ beers in hands, screaming/singing.
Aw, man. Comic books aren't crap! You just made the Baby Pekar cry.
You cannot piss off people that can have you arrested. MTA, police, stewardesses...
They were probably arrested because their "art" was mockery directed towards the MTA and the police.
Um:
"Pratt Institute art student Robert Barrett, 21, came up with the plan to leave five packages filled with crumpled newspapers and comic books throughout the subway system in a bid to show the ineptitude of the MTA and NYPD, said a police source."
Because an anonymous police source says this was the motivation of the students doesn't make it the actual motivation of the students. Let's have this source have the courage to make this charge in court, or at least back up his/her name with it.
An SVA student did something similar four years ago (click my name for the NYTimes link). Get a late pass, Pratt!
Johnny Number Five alive!
Me thinks a Pratt student proofread this piece.