Yelling "fire!" in a movie theater can put you in prison for quite a while, I would think.

With the capabilities available to authorities (in nearly every country in the world), I would expect to see an arrest or two in conjunction with the hoax threat that went out on the Internet about a week ago.

The perpetrator of the threat wrote and posted a website posting/comment (the news articles weren't clear on the actual form of the posting) that stated trucks would deliver radiological bombs (so-called "dirty bombs") to the NFL stadiums in New York, Miami (The Miami Dolphin's Stadium is pictured above), Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland and that Osama bin Laden will take credit for the disaster that would ensue.

Needless to say, the Homeland Security Department expressed extreme skepticism, but passed the information to the cities and stadium personnel as a precaution. They went so far as to recommend that Americans go ahead with their Sunday plans to watch the football games in these stadiums ... suggesting to me that they probably already have the culprits in custody.

Apparently, Ramadan comes to an end on or around this coming weekend, but I don't have the dates of Ramadan handy. (I'm 95% sure that Ramadan ends tomorrow, which would make even the date of the attacks suspect.) The site was traced back to Voxel Dot Net Inc., an internet provider that has staff in the Troy, New York area. The threat was signed, "javness." Whoever "javness" is, he or she has an inflated ego. The threat included a prediction that "Global economies will screech to a halt. General chaos will rule."

Yeh, sure ... meanwhile the DOW Industrial average (stock market indicator) topped 12,000 for the first time in its history.

But still, this hoax is serious in that it shows the problems faced by the Homeland Security Department in fighting terrorism. "Terror" is the message, even when the medium and message are both hoaxed. If my beloved Seahawks lose to the Vikings in Seattle on Sunday, I'll blame it on this $%&*@# hoax and any nervous passes that Matt Hasselbeck (right) might toss with the thought of a "dirty bomb" in the back of his mind.