Whoopie cushions used to be the rage amongst pubescent boys.  Older males  fancy strippers.  Cake is good.  With or without gyrating dancers.  As are gifts.  Even gag gifts.   In some circles, bringing your own pipe and getting bombed might be acceptable, but pipe bombs? 

Ut uh. 

And especially if the pipe bombs are in the trunk of a speeding car which is driven by two South Florida University students of Middle Eastern heritage.  Even if they claim to have gotten "lost" (with one of those GPS thingies and a laptop computer in the car) miles and miles off their route to North Carolina (Fontana Dam, by any chance?) -- to find themselves speeding past a gas station eight miles from a South Carolina Naval base while supposedly looking for a gas station.  With pipe bombs (fireworks?) in the trunk.

Ut uh.

Their attorneys said they were "scared young men." 

They damn well better be.

And if they somehow weasel out of this mess, the rest of us should be as well.

Read it for yourself.  Just don't try draw any correlation with the "praying imans" airport incident.   That would be too simple.