Baby Eater! Baby Eater! Baby Eater!

Turns out that Stephen Harper (boo! boo!) the Prime Minister of Canada is a baby eater! I grinned ear-to-ear as I read the following story this morning on the Toronto Star web site. I don't know what tickles me most about this story. Is it that none of the jaded GTA commuters even reacted to the sign reading, "Stephen Harper eats babies"? Is it that this urban rager-against-the-machine bought his dasterdly tool at Sam's Club? Or is it confirmation of a deep subconcious feeling that we all have - that the PM is indeed a cannibal who fancies the taste of baby meat? Who knows!

Enjoy!

Gerry Nicholls thought he was hallucinating as he kicked back in his seat to
take the 35-minute GO train ride to his Oakville home.

About every three seconds, the scrolling electronic sign that usually carries transit updates and advertisements had a very different message that he just could not keep his eyes off.

"Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies. Stephen Harper Eats Babies," the message kept repeating.

"No one (in the car) seemed to be reacting to it," said Nicholls, who happens to be vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, the same conservative think-tank formerly headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

"You go home and you are trying to rest from work and all of a sudden where they usually talk about Ticketmaster, all of a sudden you see this thing say `Stephen Harper Eats Babies,'" Nicholls said yesterday. "I wasn't even sure when I got off the train. Was I hallucinating?"

Turns out he wasn't.

An ingenious hacker, who boarded the Lakeshore GO Transit westbound train, made sure that on Thursday, Friday and yesterday, suburban commuters in at least five different cars continued to get his or her subliminal message

His weapon of choice was a remote control device that can be bought at a Sam's Club and used to discreetly program scrolling electronic signs found commonly in shop windows — and in every GO Transit train car — from about two metres away.