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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Life Imitates Some Pretty Strange Art


In 2002, police arrested 25-year-old Joseph D. Konopka and his 15-year-old sidekick in a steam tunnel at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Learning that Konopka had bottles of cyanide stored in his hidden headquarters in a CTA substation, authorities shut down traffic on the Blue and Red Lines for several hours while the poison was recovered. In Konopka’s underground lair, police found maps, burglary tools, emergency scanners and GPS equipment.
They also learned that Konopka called himself “Dr. Chaos.”
Together with the adolescent disciples he dubbed his “Realm of Chaos,” Dr. Chaos caused 28 full power failures and 20 other service interruptions at various Wisconsin power plants, committed arson, disrupted radio and television broadcasts and managed to disable an air traffic control system.
Now tell me again that comic books are unrealistic.

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