Famous flour bombings

Disclaimer: I was not responsible for the ACU Chapel flour bombing. I knew nothing about its planning and execution, and I was in no way involved in its execution. But I know who was.

A few days ago, French Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 presidential elections, Francois Hollande was flour bombed. The woman in the picture rushed onto the stage and dumped a bag of flour on M. Hollande. Crude, but effective.

Think how much more effective it would have been if the payload of flour had been positioned in a mechanism hidden in the ceiling above M. Hollande, and a timer had been employed to drop the flour on the head of the unsuspecting victim.

It wouldn't have to be anything sophisticated; a simple wooden box to hold the flour and a trap door that could easily be released by the action of a wind-up alarm clock. And if you knew that at the exact same time every day - say, at the daily ACU chapel service - some member of the school establishment - say, Dean Adams - would stand in the exact same spot on a stage, below where a spotlight used to shine down on the podium, but since the light was no longer in use only the hole it previously occupied remained, well... well, it would cause quite the kerfuffle. And the perpetrator, unlike Mille.Claire Seguin in the picture above, would be unknown to the public and not be in a world of hurt.

That's the way I would have done it should have been done.

But even clever schemes like that sometimes fail. The graduate student delivering the chapel address went a little long, and it was he, not the Dean, who was flour bombed.

So they say.