Why would you DO that?
 

Why the heck would anyone choose the Iran/Iraq border for a hiking jaunt?

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21...ays/?hpt=hp_t1

In fact, I googled best places in the world to hike, and I don't see any bombed out 500 million degree desolate warzones whatsoever listed on it.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/21...ays/?hpt=hp_t1

Attention whores? The thrill of the action? The bombs bursting in air?

Maybe they should've joined the service.

Dudes, it's a free country. The world? Not so much. :facepalm:

Their compass wasn't working??

Some people want to see the world, and are attracted to weird places like that. When I was in HS, my family went through Checkpoint Charlie and walked around East Berlin. We wanted to see it.

I think this is sort of similar. But it's crazier than going through Checkpoint Charlie.

They took a wrong turn at Albuquerque?

WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY crazier, glatt. Way.

I LOVE that bugs!

remember the Partridge family? They had a song about Albequerque....so effing kewl!

OMG, no I didn't remember that, but here it is! :notworthy

Only Bugs Bunny would take a vacation at Pismo Beach (California).

LOL. I luv Bugs.

They are definitely CIA operatives. ;)

You people rock. ROCK, I tell you! :)

One of my favorites

Hahahahhaha! I forgot about that buzzard.

The voice of all those characters comes from one man - Mel Blanc. He can be seen in a Jack Benny rerun. Jack is buying Christmas presents. But after buying that wallet multiple times, the clerk (Mel Blanc) goes berserk - in a Looney Tunes fashion. Clerk eventually he kills himself.

TV was not worried about being politically correct when Bugs and company dominated the airwaves.

That era of WB cartoons are awesome. There is some very sophisticated humour and cultural references in there, as well as the cross-dressing slapstick between Elmer and Bugs.


Those "hikers"?
I can't decide my opinion on those. As a hiking trip, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to (a) choose that location and then (b) balls up your navigation, yet still fairly competant to even get there. As a CIA mission, it seems pointless and ameturish. Why go there? see something? Ha, send an aerial drone. Meet someone? there are much better ways than trying to sneak across a border undetected.
Neither standard explanation makes sense. I guess they were up to some kind of shenanigans, but not CIA. Something private, possibly political, possibly regualr crime such as drugs.

Shrug.

According to the reports they were actually only next to the border with Iran when motioned over by a guard and then arrested. I don't think they even knew where the border was actually located. There was no fence and it was in a hilly area. I think they were duped.