Just What The Feds Needed: Circuit City Employee

Unbelievably, the worker who saved the United States from another terrorist attack wasn’t your average slacker, a person you might hope could rise up in tense situations (i.e. a plan for a terrorist attack comes in on a VHS tape) and make the correct move (i.e. tell the police).

No, he wasn’t just a bored Blockbuster employee, he was a Circuit City worker! Yes, a man from one of our nation’s fine big box hellholes managed to save the world, or at least Fort Dix.

You could say someone was using his “Idea Box,” but that’s a commercial associated with Best Buy, not Circuit City.

The Star-Ledger’s Dunstan McNichol reports:

Five television news trucks and about a dozen reporters and photographers descended on the store this morning, hoping to interview the clerk who cracked the alleged plot. Store officials declined to comment. Mount Laurel police officers forbade reporters from interviewing shoppers heading in and out of the store.

Good to see Mount Laurel police are really doing a bang-up job there. Circuit City declined to make the employee available for comment, which can only mean one thing: He was one of the 3500 employees laid off.

Circuit City to Cut More Than 3,500 Jobs [AP/Yahoo!]
Circuit City clerk alerted authorities to alleged plot [The Star-Ledger Blog]
Earlier today: Mt. Laurel Video Store Clerk Did Not Appreciate Ruse