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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+91http://img.trevorchan.org/b/src/117029479890359.jpg
1/31/07 Never Forget! - thepompano, on 10/12/2007, -5/+85This man is in possession of an explosive device! CALL THE AUTHORITIES AT ONCE!
- postal21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+70People were on CNN talking about how these were put out to create public "hysteria"...
I cant believe people are so stupid to see an LED sign and think its a bomb... especially that sign.
SAVE US SAVE US! - scooterDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+66Imagine what will happen if Boston city officials look up and see these all over the place!
http://z.about.com/d/geography/1/0/O/E/s28.JPG - Stradenko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61@scooterdave
Just imagine if those pedestrian signs were doing a countdown, just like a REAL BOMB!
http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/guide/engineering/images/countdown2.jpg - tcquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+58The property wasn't stolen; it was left out in a public place and would therefore be considered abandoned.
- Manhigh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55And now the authorities in Boston are threatening YEARS of jailtime for those involved.
Sounds like someone is a little embarassed that over their behavior, and have to make it out to sound worse than it really is. At worst, this is graffiti. Not even that, its graffiti with chalk, since the signs aren't permanent.
This is sad on two counts. First it's sad that people are so technologically illiterate to confuse these for harmful devices. After the first one was obtained by the authorities the all-clear should have been given immediately. Secondly its sad that such a state of hysteria is so willingly whipped up by the authorities. - MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55These are dangerous days, my friend - terrorists are everywhere, infiltrating our precious bodily fluids.
- arcele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51I hope you can see this all the way down there, because I'm doing it harder than I've ever done it before!
- KryptoniteKid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+55And in related news, Bostonians are idiots.
- dreserd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Note to terrorists:
Don't bother leaving bomb boxes in highly visible places with LED characters on them.
Our authorities are way ahead of you. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Mooninites don't cripple cities, retards do.
Seriously, I heard yesterday on the radio that the bombsquards had detonated some suspicious device under a bridge. I just found out today that it was a bit of board with LEDs in it and a battery on the back, what the ***** was going through the bombsquads minds when they detonated the thing? Did it remind them of the horrible LED massacre of '98 or was General Ackbar in their headsets screaming "It's a trap!" - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39NPR reported on a police statement that said the devices contained components "consistent with an Improvised Explosive Device."
No *****? You mean it contained some simple electronics? Radio Shacks in the greater Boston area, beware! The Boston Police may raid you next for selling components consistent with IEDs!! - ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41I think a better use of that money would be donations to educate the Boston PD bomb squad...
Or did the fact that there is no room for explosives on these things totally escape them? I think we need to be worried when people think technology is "magic".
Of course as I typed this I remember the whole "exploding sports drink" thing that was roundly refuted and still persisted for months. - Solkre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37I submit this as proof that the terrorists have won. We are now a truly pathetic country.
- dose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Ignignokt: You and your third dimension.
Frylock: What about it?
Ignignokt: Oh, nothing, it's cute. We have five.
Err: ...Th, Thousand.
Ignignokt: Yes, five thousand.
Err: Don't question it!
Frylock: Oh, yeah? Well, I only see two.
Ignignokt: Well, that sounds like a personal problem. - jackpot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33All five so far on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mooninites-Ignignokt-LED-Advertising-Bomb_W0QQitemZ130075321405QQihZ003QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mooninites-Ignignokt-LED-Boston-Bomb-Scare_W0QQitemZ230086453528QQihZ013QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mooninites-Ignignokt-Aqua-Teen-LED-Sign-Perfect_W0QQitemZ130075405697QQihZ003QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/aqua-teen-hunger-force-mooninites-neon-not-a-bomb_W0QQitemZ190078492881QQihZ009QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/aqua-teen-hunger-force-mooninites-neon-sign_W0QQitemZ110086799644QQihZ001QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - macfanboi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31"We're on your bridges, terrorizing your Bombz Squadz!"
- gjd131, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27You're right MAdaXe42, that's why I only drink distilled water, rain water and pure grain alcohol.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Tell me about it, I live in Boston and there are way too many people who are like "someone should be fired from this, what a horrible publicity stunt", which is insane, something like this should a lesson that we are way over paranoid (and that more people really should watch ATHF if they can't recognize a mooninite!), not the other way around. Of course this is the same city that turned into a police state during the DNC so I guess I'm not surprised.
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21They have been watching too many movies if they think that's how a terrorist plot is done. They probably think bombs have a beeping digital clock and are diffused by cutting the right colored wire. I say someone's a *little* bit embarassed that they got all excited over nothing, unfortunately they are in a position to claim moral superiority and want some heads to roll. I can totally accept that it was a misunderstanding but I don't see why they should throw the book at anyone over this.
- molochi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Well we now live in a Post-1/31 world. You're going to have to get used to the disdain of people's tendency to behave like attention whores every-time somebody else does anything they don't like.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I find it funny how the news stations all blur out the middle finger, I guess middle finger LEDs are offensive?
- xero69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I so want one of these now. Would anyone buy one if I made up a batch and put them on Ebay? I love Adult Swim!!! This is GREAT free advertising for them! Hooray!
- dstew74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Agreed... When glorified lite-brights illicit this kind of reaction, it makes you wonder about the sanity of those in charge. Then again it's Boston so a sanity check would be out of the question.
- Axias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Live in Boston myself, Menino is bitching it cost us $500,000..
-Chalk it up to stupidity imo. I don't even own a TV and I recognized the mooninite.
Stupid city officials. Propagating fear because it makes them feel special? - Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21"Next time you park your car "out in a public place" I'll decide its "abandoned" and promptly claim it as my own."
Don't you need a key to open/operate a car? And also a license, ownership papers, and so on? And furthermore, aren't there designated areas for people to park their cars? Now, on that note, where in a city can you find a little white line box on the ground labelled "leave your viral ads here"? Oh, that's right, nowhere.
You're dumb. - supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24God save America. People thought this was a bomb. LOLz!!!
- mt066, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18We smoke while we flip the bird
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17"They were placed in very public places (hospitals, bridges, subways), and they were the right size to carry explosives."
And that makes them explosives, what the hell? Okay, you knwo, even if you can justify the initial reaction of calling the police out to look at them, don't you think the bombsquad should have known better, or hell even the plain clothed police officers? Even now that they know it isn't a bomb they are trying to cover their asses for not being smart enough to realise what this was by making it out to be all the fault of a horrible hoax designed to scare rather than not being able to tell batteries from C4. This would not be any big deal at all pre-9/11.
For example, when I worked in a grocery store, we had a bank in the front of the store, one night after the banks hours, two men came into the store, they weren't wearing any sort of uniform, just plains clothes, they set a box down on the banks counter and left. Moments later, we started to hear a beepign from the box on the desk. We weren't sure what it was or why someone would bomb a Winn Dixie but we weren't qualified to decide that so we called the police. They didn't cordon of a five mile radius, they didn't parlyse traffic, they went in, looked at the scene and informed us that the box had knocked the phone off the hook and the phone had an off-the-reciever beep. That was the end of it, FedEx wasn't fined for mass hysteria inducing, that was all. This is no different. - cybortrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17apparently, you are unfamiliar with the final ruling in the case: Finders Keepers v. Thats Mine
- JuanCarlosII, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19This is awesome! man i wish i had the money to buy it! i was walking down the street in boston today and the roads were jam packed with cars because of these things. ATF everywhere! it crippled the city
fantastic - vastrightwing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Frankly, I'm embarrassed at how Boston reacted. These cheap LED circuit boards are FLAT! They don't look like a "package" at all. The joke was on Turner Broadcasting as Boston used this as a way to get in the news and to charge them $500,000 for posting ads. Come on, sure the stunt was inconsiderate considering our propensity towards FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt), but seriously, why did only Boston react this way? Why aren't all the other denizen in the other cities freaking out? Because they don't have Mumbles, that's why.
- TheN0id, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Your problem is that you are expecting groups people to be rational. Rationality doesn't exist among the masses.
- skikng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15The explosion shall be of extraordinary magnitude. Just hang on. -Ignignokt
- Tebixan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Between 24 and the governments fear mongering, Amercians are as stupidly afraid as they've been since the Red Scare. The other day here in Orlando, some guy left his briefcase in a parking lot, outside a K-mart, so the bombsquad blew it up. When I was in high school a couple years ago, someone split some flour near the cafeteria, so we all went home to avoid the "anthrax".
You're 80 times more likely to die in a car accident than at the hands of a terrorist, but we all still drive... - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14'NPR reported on a police statement that said the devices contained components "consistent with an Improvised Explosive Device."'
I knew it, I knew that somehow this would be related to the similarity between lowercase L and uppercase I.
"IT WERE MADE WITH lED's!!! TV SET US UP THE BOMB!!" - Kelligan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14You'd think someone on the bomb squad or someone else would have watched the show and realized it wasn't a bomb.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15So our reaction to anything unknown and electronic should be to assume that it's terrorism? I can see having someone check it out, but Boston was jammed up for hours because people make decisions based on irrational fears. I can see that it could have been planned better, but this should really remind us that we are over paranoid, which doesn't help pervent terrorism in any way, and leads us to take actions based on fears and suspicions, which in the long run will do us far more harm than good.
- Depthfunction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Boston: Your face has been rocked.
- protogenxl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The funniest thing on the news was footage of a bomb squad guy placing a disarming explosive in the center of Ignignokt (who's outline is clearly visible) then blowing the sign up.
anyway from this point on we should designate January 31st night of the L.E.D.s - CobolNoFun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14i still don't understand how this is considered a hoax.
If i put a sign on a street post selling my couch, its fine..ie not a bomb.
If i put a sign on a street post selling my couch that lights up, well lets spend $750,000 and waist officers time all day.
Its a sign, in no way shape or form is this a bomb like device. I understand they all were just following protocols, but at some point you need to sit down and say .."well the batteries hook up to these LED's and then reconnect to the batteries....hmmm seems harmless lets not call the bomb squad"
Id be really pissed if i lived in Boston and had my tax dollars go toward fighting lite brites - Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Yes. Not for $5001.00 (current bid), but yes, I would.
- tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"Prepare for a pride obliterating bitch slap"
- kwago, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13someone should leave one of these out in public in boston
http://www.sciencekit.com/images/250/64/64373-00.jpg - Bahimiron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I live in Boston.
In mid-November, my car ran out of gas while crossing the Mystic River/Tobin Bridge. That's just north of Sullivan Square, where one of these was found.
I got out and started walking across the bridge, as it would be easier to get to a gas station that way than to go back. A bus pulled over and the guy screamed at me not to jump. After getting over the man's assumptioned I was going to kill myself, I got in and got a ride across the bridge to the Mass Highway Department. Inside, I told the guy behind the desk that my car had broken down on the bridge. While he was trying to find it with his cameras, I overheard on his police radio Mass state troopers saying that they had cordoned off the area around my car and were deciding whether they should consider it a potential terrorist threat.
When I finally got back to my car, the trooper who had been assigned to babysit it lectured me for a full 20 minutes about how every car that is 'abandoned' on any of the bridges in the area was considered a possible terrorist threat until proven otherwise. He further said I was lucky that it had not broken down in the tunnel that leads up to the bridge. If it had, he said, they would have just called the bomb squad to take care of my car.
So yeah, Boston overreacts. - Manhigh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12News flash...a bomb could be made to look like anything.
Should we start freaking out about every little piece of trash now?
Theres a big difference between a guy trying to light his shoes on a plane, and a lite-brite. - itate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12There is another one on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aqua-teen-hunger-force-mooninites-neon-not-a-bomb_W0QQitemZ190078492881QQihZ009QQcategoryZ363QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Moe: The deep fryer's here. Heh heh, I got it used from the navy. You can flash-fry a buffalo in forty seconds.
Homer: Forty seconds? But I want it now! - NikoKun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Why are a bunch of guys that put up signs... liable for money spend because the CITY overreacted, and wasted money...
Somehow I think its the CITIES fault for overreacting, and wasting money... And its their problem to deal with that waste... and not pass it off on the guys that were just hanging signs... -
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