"Mahmoud! There are thousands of titties on that beach! Their owners must be killed!"
"But Achmed! We used up all our bombs when we boomed the train!"
"Call them and tell them we have bombs!" |
Thousands of sunbathers were evacuated from five beaches in eastern Spain for hours Wednesday in what appeared to be the third fake bomb scare in the same tourist area in a week. Beachgoers were allowed back after a two-hour search produced no evidence of explosives, the government said. "It looks like a sick joke, a desire to bother people," said Montserrat Tura, the Interior Ministry chief for the regional government of Catalonia.
"Achmed? Their titties wiggle and sway so enticingly when they leave the beach!"
"Here! Read your Koran and don't think about it!" |
Police ordered some 2,000 people to clear the beaches around 2 p.m. after the Basque newspaper Gara, which often serves as a mouthpiece for the Basque separatist group ETA, received two calls warning of bombs, the Interior Ministry said. In one warning, the caller reportedly claimed that 330 pounds of explosives loaded in a backpack would go off at 2:15 p.m. in the same beach area mentioned in bomb threats Sunday and Tuesday. "The beaches have been totally reopened," said Carlos Genovilla, a member of the city council in the resort town of Sant Carles de la Rapita in Tarragona province. Summer bombing campaigns along Spain's coast _ at the height of the tourist season _ are an ETA hallmark. |