it's easy to laugh at the response, but what you have had them do?
in this day and age, they had no choice but to respond as they did.
whoever thought it was a smart idea to place these "devices" at strategic points -- bridges, transportation, etc. -- should be fired.
it's amusing, i guess, especially the obvious disconnect between these politicians and popular culture.
but once you stop laughing, you wonder what would have happened had they done nothing, and the "devices" turned out to be bombs.