The rosy glow of the lunar eclipse seems to have inspired some far flung lunacy last night:  in the Athens, Greece metropolitan area dozens of arsons were set.  Banks, insurance offices, government sites and vehicles were torched. And it all took place in a space of 10 minutes around 2 a.m.  

Locally, windows of 4 banks were destroyed in Bremerton when bricks with anarchist polemics attached were smashed through the windows.  Story here and here .

Image:  Xinhua  

OK, I am filing this one in my "what the hell?" file.

As I understand it, the guy tries to board a plane.  He passes a backpack through the airport scanner and they see books, box cutter, papers, lint…wait, box cutter?

So they inspect and find a book with a hollowed out inner compartment (ala Shawshank Redemption) in which a box cutter was concealed.

His excuse?  "Oops! I forget it was there."

Michelle Malkin starts us off:

Whoops. He just forgot it was there!

The Clearwater man pleads guilty, saying he had forgotten about the box cutter.

The X-ray image of a box cutter inside Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack caught the attention of federal officers Sunday morning at Tampa International Airport.

But it was the packaging that really jolted them: a hollowed-out book that hid the razor-sharp tool. Also inside the backpack: a Koran, a Holy Bible and rap music lyrics referencing police, drugs and guns.