Diamondeye wrote:
This is a common misconception that simply coming up with any conceivable explanation is reasonable. No, "maybe you are shooting a movie" is not a reasonable explanation in the absence of, you know, a movie actually being shot. You can take a photo of one anywhere, you don't need to bring it to a parade, and the absence of a camera would tend to disprove that anyhow. You don't sterilize things for science experiments in a kitchen cooker in the middle of a parade site, and putting paper in a cooker in the first place seems like a very hazardous way of sterilizing it.
It isn't just a matter of the cooker having confetti, it's also the time, place and circumstances he had it in. This "but there could be other explanations!" thinking is what teenagers try to use when they get in trouble at school, thinking that any possibility, no matter how outlandish, means that they're being "oppressed" if someone doesn't let them get away with what they were really doing.
You're misconstruing what I said. We agree on everything here. The other explanations were theoretical, where someone else would
actually be shooting a movie like you said. None of these excuses would fly in the middle of a parade, especially not in this particular one. This guy has no good excuse and it's obvious his intent was for it to be taken as a hoax device and scare people. So.. yeah, we agree.
None of those are situations that actually obtained.