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- taswitzer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+91PS -
don't fall for the 'blame Turner Broadcasting' option. It's purpose is to distract you from putting the blame DIRECTLY on who deserves it... the AUTHORITIES and OFFICIALS who, when they looked at a blinking cartoon sign, DECIDED to escalate the situation to it's current status. GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF CITY RESOURCES! - aikahanyou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56What about blaming the media for their terrorist frenzy these past years? Terrorists aren't around every corner, so the news should stop saying they are. It's creating so much paranoia.
- brokekneck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26 I think the city of Boston needs to make public apology. Fully reimburse them for the wages they lost while jailed AND pay the lawyer bill. City governments need to learn its not ok to jail whom ever they please. And its gonna cost them if they do so.
- Chive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Numbers of Americans killed in America over the last 5 years:
By auto accidents - 200,000
By handguns - 150,000
By falling - 65,000
By drowning - 60,000
By fire - 20,000
By terrorist attack - 0
Sometimes I think that the average person is stupid beyond all comprehension. Millions of people now live with a day to day fear of the terrorist bogeyman. But even the slightest knowledge of the realities of the world should make it clear that this should be the very least of the average person's worries - f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15There is no right option. They force you to label it a prank at best. So as you can see, you will never win with the media.
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13***** yes.
i would digg you many, many more times if possible. - heilig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12interesting how the correct option 'Local, state and federal authorities. They overreacted to a prank.' insinuates that this was intended as a prank. in fact, it was intended as promotion.
i wouldnt take part of the poll - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@ GawtMilk
yeah why did they use wires and batteries? I meen really those things are found ONLY on bombs and such. Its not like they are found in household electronics, or circuit boards, or mp3 players, or computers, or street lamps, or cell phones, or fluorescent lights........
/sarcasm - smackhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11wtf? where's the option for: "News Media who continue to sensationalize the story and unconscionably call the thing a 'terror hoax' when ALL THE ***** EVIDENCE POINTS TO THE CONTRARY."
- zerocomm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I personally blame the media. They are the ones who hyped it to death and scared the ***** out of everyone.
- AlphAssassin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Where's the "I blame myself" option for voting for Bush?
- gincarnated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Why the hell are they still calling it a prank/hoax...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8you forgot the http://
- jodokast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In other news "Digg users hijack the internet."
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Who are the 176 douchebags who said it's the artists fault?
- SilenceBroken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I don't even understand what they are trying to burn Turning Broadcasting and their marketing people at the stake for this one. They didn't do anything wrong. They did not foresee that all Boston would have one, big mooing cow over their little Martian Christmas decorations. They didn't do anything wrong. It's not like they intentionally tried to make it look like a bomb. If it wasn't intentional, it wasn't a hoax. The authorities in Boston just freaked out over a well-intentioned marketing gimmick.
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The police who were involved, the media talking heads that were duped, the citizens who were already out buying gas masks, gallons of water, and dehydrated food.
- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The Mooninites were right, they are hundreds of years beyond earth. We're so scared of terrorism in this country that we let a LightBright make national news. Its really a travesty that the city spent so much time and wasted so much money on this thing, but its their own fault. It would be a cold day in hell before they said "Looks like we screwed up. We are truly sorry." There is absolutly no one to blame but themselves.
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7polls are usually skewed
but yes i voted for overreaction
as did 2734 other people, its the top ranked choice in the results - pensivewombat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The authorities are clearly at fault here, but the news media reporting on the non-event also bear some of the blame
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You can vote on the 2 polls here:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/BeSeenBeHeard/popup?id=2840922
http://abcnews.go.com/US/BeSeenBeHeard/popup?id=2841597 - whisk3rs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Exactly my thought. I am 90 miles away from Boston ATM, but I bet all the news channels went like this: "Breaking news! Dozens of roads and bridges closed due to suspicious devices found under bridges and tunnels. Bomb squads are working around the clock. Is this yet another terrorist attack? Is your life in danger? Are you going to die a horrible death tonight? Find out at 10!"
God damn sensationalist media. - iTorrey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@xelloss
OMG! WHAT IF THEY GOT THEIR HANDS ON FOUR MILLION NUKES!!?!?!?!? OH NOOOOSSSE!
Dude, turn off 24, read up on the constitution and the history of government sponsored terrorism. Read up on how governments scare their population into submission using the threat of an outside force.
Or as Henry Kissinger said:
"Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing that every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." At their 1992 meeting, in Evian France May 21, the Bilderburg group discussed the possibility of "conditioning the public to accept the idea of a UN army that could, by force, impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation" - blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ok...It's sad I have to point this out. But Gawtmilk was being sarcastic too (it wasn't a good attempt, but still). -_- Ugh.. We need a sarcasm font alteration..like italics...but slanted left perhaps.
- Ogopogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This marketing stunt was done in 9 cities. The citizens and cops in 8 passed the IQ test just fine. Boston is the winner for having the dumbest cops. Boston's 'lawsuit' should be laughed out of court.
- gravylookout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I couldn't agree more, who writes these questions?
"Local, state and federal authorities. They overreacted to a prank"
- It was clearly a marketing campaign and not a "prank"
"Turner Broadcasting. They sponsored the marketing campaign and should have alerted authorities"
- Why would Turner Broadcasting alert the athourities about a marketing campaign that they sponsored, it seemed to be going fine in other cities.
Why can't people make a poll anymore without commentary, the list should read like this
-Local, State, and Federal Authorities
-Turner Broadcasting
-The Marketing Firm
-The Artists - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'd hate to be in Boston at Christmas.
Oh, no! Blinking LIGHTS! BOMBS EVERYWHERE! The entire city is WIRED to EXPLOOOOOOOOOOODE! - AlphAssassin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Personally, I'll blame jews for this one.
- LACHRYMIST, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Local, state and federal authorities. They overreacted to a prank."
Prank?
This wasn't exactly a prank.
Apparently ABCnews needs to read the ... news. - taswitzer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8citizens of both internets, the frightened officials of Boston (and foX newS) need adjustment. set the dial and pull the lever to register how much adjustment is required.
- kazuhima, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@kayel
im sorry to hear that.... but he wrote last 5 years. - cprincipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The city of Boston needs to be very careful about how extensively they prosecute this case. The defense will bring witnesses from the other nine cities where this went on who will say on the stand "Yeah, we found them, we didn't think they were bombs, we took them down, we didn't shut our city down."
- RADED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It wasn't a hoax or prank it was advertising GET IT RIGHT MEDIA.
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would, but I can't even vote in this poll. Are they discriminating against mooninites?
Seriously, I can't. All I see are the results. - pensivewombat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@blahtastic Actually I prefer to leave sarcasm unmodified. It serves as a tool to weed out those without good reading skills. Of course, that depends on good writing skills, which aren't exactly in abundance on message boards.
You know what? Forget it, maybe you're right. - mitchconnerr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've seen a few poles on this and ABC is one of the BAD MISLEADING poles.
The only choice to blame overreaction on also says it was a prank????
ABC do you have a bunch of MORONS working there??? You must because I bet you dont call YOUR marketing campaigns pranks..THIS WAS NOT A PRANK IDIOTS!!!
How bout this choice...
Local, state and federal authorities. They overreacted to being scared little bitches and ignorant narrow-minded paranoid brainwashed morons who dont understand what freedom - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"But if terrorist get there hands on a nuke = Hundreds of thousands or more dead."
America will be ok, they have Jack Bauer. - FlungIntoSpace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does anyone else think it interesting that from all this, [adult swim] is getting WAY more advertising for their low-budget cartoon movie? What was probably going to be a hit only with the people who watch the show, now has the possibility of becomming a bigger hit from people who heard about "that movie CNN was talking about."
As we keep seeing every time the media blows something out of proportion, ANY publicity is good publicity. - yourfault1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with Raded and others... There's no way that Turner and ATHF were meeting with their Marketing team and thought "hey guys, let's put up some mooninites made out of lite-brights, distribute them to a bunch of cities, and hope that it creates a panic about BOMBS!" That doesn't even make sense! Have Bostonians simply never heard of advertising and marketing?? There's a bar down the street from me that has the exact same image of a mooninite flipping the bird in neon lights, I've seen it a hundred times there. I never thought that I was in danger.
- merdiesel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These two guys are so entertaining.
- AlphAssassin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Eh forget it.
GO BEARS! - floorman56, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yea I heard this too. The thought is that the LED's were up for 2 weeks and not getting a response. THEN all of a sudden 911 gets calls about a dozen of these things. I guess when they check where the 911 calls come from the true story will be told.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I did.
- Rsulliv1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Amazing, I can't believe so many people have voted 'yes'. I am, of course, a 'no'. (and ATHF is on right now)
@ 2:30 am cst
No. It was just a joke, and I think that's the point they were making in their news conference.
2,870
Yes. Terrorism is not funny and people were legitimately scared in Boston.
2,010
Total Vote: 4,880 - diggumjonez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@SilenceBroken -
Thank you. This has been driving me crazy. It wasn't a hoax, obviously. But it also wasn't a PRANK. No one was getting pranked or fooled or cajoled. A marketing company recognized an under-the-radar trend of making public "graffiti" out of LEDs, and used this idea to promote a tv show; mostly to the people who already watched the show. It's not like anyone who hadn't watched lots of ATHF would see that, know it was a bit character from the show they didn't watch, and begin watching.
The ABC poll is bunk and biased because option number one refers to people overreacting to a prank. It wasn't at all such. It's more along the lines of a city on full freak mode because a billboard alongside the road read "STARBURST EXPLODE WITH FLAVOR!" and took the word "explode" as a direct terrorist threat.
It's *****. The city government of Boston should be ashamed of themselves. The media in Boston should be ashamed of themselves. And frankly, the two dudes who were arrested should be ashamed of themselves for not rehearsing their press conference schtick a bit more as it ended up as mostly incoherent rambling when it could have been comedy gold. - darthdurden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its been my experience that no one actually voted for bush (or at least won't admit to it), so that point would be moot
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And I thought the media overreacted.
- JasonHammer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Exactly. I find it funny how there are four answers, Four! And none of them are truly correct. The correct answer for the win is the media for cultivating fear day after day. I do like how they are framing the argument to be a prank with the intent to skew the poll to anything BUT the local and state government and yet that is still the overwhelming majority answer.
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