Epic Failure

Let me preface this by saying that the events of the last few days in the UK horrifies me. I happened to be working in England the last time someone successfully detonated a bomb in London, and it wasn’t particularly amusing. In fact, I find myself rather relieved that I am viewing this sequence of events from the other hemisphere of the planet.

A few years ago, I was a member of a now defunct mailing list called Survivor Wit. It was for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and its purpose was to take the piss out of the experience as a combined coping strategy and method of healing.

I mention this so that you take the following idea from whence it comes.

Does it strike anyone else but me that the terrorists in the UK are a bit rubbish? Okay, July the 7th was horrible beyond imagining, but could also be chalked up to beginners luck. Since then, every single attempt has resulted in epic failure, and only once through direct police intervention (the airplane/liquid thing). Two weeks after July 7, a bunch of chaps spectacularly failed to blow themselves up.

Now you’ve got giant carbombs that fail to detonate, and to cap it all, two blokes drive a flaming Cherokee of Death into an airport unassociated with anything, completely fail to explode and instead receive a thorough booting from a gang of justifiably pissed off Glaswegian cabbies.

You’ve got to laugh. They’re crap.

So, my idea is this. How about a series – webcomic / audiosode / fanfilm – about a bunch of British terrorists trying to blow stuff up. Their motivation is entirely more mundane than the government thinks it is, and changes from week to week, always ending in abject failure, with the survivors reconvening to plan the next attack. Sort of like a militant Pinky and the Brain, but with beards. Anyone want to produce this? Feel free to nick the idea.