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- LifeIsARhythm, on 10/12/2007, -16/+300I am embarrassed to be from Boston right now. How does a city overreact like this?
- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -5/+235"It's a hoax — and it's not funny"
-Gov. Deval Patrick
No. It's not. And it is. - lava, on 10/12/2007, -2/+178"I am embarrassed to be from Boston right now. How does a city overreact like this?"
I'm in Boston too. Apparently these things have been there for 3 weeks, and they've also been there in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Nobody reported them over there, and all of a sudden Boston police got 4 calls on the same day... all around 1pm. They've been described as "pipe bombs" and "sophisticated electronic devices." I think all of this points to a person or a group of people being party poopers. - NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+175So we are safe from bombs, just as long as they dont go off in under 3 weeks.
- distrbnce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+159What kind of -i d i o t- thinks that if someone designed a bomb... they would put BLINKING ***** LIGHTS all over it!?
***** Hollywood. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+137They're going to be fired . . . with a QUAD LASER!
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -42/+157damn... you had to take a swipe at bush in this one too?
Jeeze... lay off the political ***** on something that could actually turn out to be funny. - Th0Rr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+117"The device was detonated and determined to be harmless, but as a precaution the station and the interstate shut down temporarily."
Your jam box is now his, by way of our actions.
lqtm
ps - here come the ridiculous reactionary laws once again - Resolver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+107boston, i am flipping you off as hard as i can.
- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+104In the end, this is the best possible publicity for the show. And hopefully the movie, should the damn thing ever come out.
- mustache, on 10/12/2007, -1/+101I work for Cartoon Network, and a whole half-day of work was just wasted watching CNN and laughing hysterically. The office is all the buzz over whose getting canned over this one. All I know is if you call PR they'll hang up on you. It's a ***** over there. Glad I don't work in PR today, that's for damn sure.
- KarmasAgent, on 10/12/2007, -4/+94This is awesome. Simply awesome. A completely innocuous marketing campaign that would have been fodder for the Today Show or Talk Soup over 5 years ago now triggers panic and anger and will likely end in vengeance. Vengeance insisted on by those who panicked and now feel embarrassed when reflecting on their actions in a time when accurate assessment of the risk the situation posed was vital and they failed miserably.
Cartoon Network has possibly stepped into a snake-pit with this one. With the Boston Mayor making a complete fool of himself by reacting before he had the necessary facts it is unlikely this will just disappear. He publicly, and angrily, made a strong assertion as to the action he was going to take and now will feel obligated to stand by it. Basic principle of social psychology is that once people publicly state an assertion they will do what they can to stand by it... even to where it causes a lack of perspective to the larger context.
Our nation is deteriorating as rapidly as the environment (and that is no coincidence). The leaders and the media machine have a message and script so far from reality that when they use their script to interpret reality the consequences can be frightening. The fear instilled into otherwise mundane events and happenings is a tremendous threat to the boundaries that separate us from an Orwellian society.
What was I saying?
Oh yeah... GO MOONINITES!!! - jessecurry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+97this is all because of 24
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+74You and your third dimension.
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+70The beauty of the story is they had been there for weeks, no one noticed or cared, then one day they flipped out.
- punch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67CNN Breaking News: Space Ghost attempts to kidnap the Bush twins.
- LJRod82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60"Boston has deeply offended us and our god and our god is a god of vengeance... and horror."
- nxusername, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57Boston, prepare to meet your digital rulers... Now please, bow your heads and pretend to be serious.
http://nxd0main.com/media/moonies.png - Vishap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+56That's a bomb? Well Hell, I had one of those as a kid, though my parents told me it was called a Lite-Brite.
- Scottamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54 Ignignokt: Hello, Carl, I am Ignignokt and this is Err.
Err: I am Err.
Ignignokt: We are Mooninites from the inner core of the moon.
Err: You said it right.
Ignignokt: Our race is hundreds of years beyond yours.
Err: Man, you hear what he's saying?
Ignignokt: Some would say that the Earth is our moon.
Err: We're the moon.
Ignignokt: But that would belittle the name of our moon, which is: The Moon.
Err: Point is: we're at the center, not you.
Carl: No, the real point is: I don't give a damn. - fubuvsfitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53Perhaps whoever did this reported them in order to get them noticed nationally, finally.
- pyr0x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50I can't believe how moronic this is, seriously. "OMG! That glowing neon 'OPEN' sign in that Starbucks window could possibly be a terrorist bomb! CALL THE FBI!!!"
- ucbrave92, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51This is absolutely ridiculous, anyone with some common sense would have looked at this and put two and two together, but due to the constant state of fear that some people have been conditioned to live in they look at every forgotten purse, shopping bag or who knows what next, a hot dog and scream bomb, bomb!
- durazine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43They blurred his middle finger on the news, come on people.
- capiCrimm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43then silently rehired. You can't ask for publicity like this.
- proxima, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42I couldn't stop laughing when I read this... especially because my coworkers have to deal with the traffic home. Ha! Spanked with moonrocks!
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44This ad campaign is more advanced than boston can comprehend with 100% of their brain.
- tripstreet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33don't you mean... quad glacier? Do you want it done fast or do you want it done right?
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32There's a pair of shoes hanging form the telephone lines out side of my house...should I call the FBI?
- scottfarner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31sheboygan.
get your obscure Wisconsin towns right!
;) - zip22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27heres some close up photos (i'm pretty sure this is the same thing)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/tags/aquateenhungerforce/
via make
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/aqua_teen_hunge_1.html - avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32@JJsays:
Well, in this case it was. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24It's easy to mistake it for a bomb if you're not the Moon Master.
- OmniMe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/
local news video
do you think we can all settle down a bit? the gov't and media have done their job with instilling an absolute fear of everything in us that isn't American Idol or 24. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I can understand one idiot looking at a circuit board and thinking that somehow, it might explode. It's got wires! Bombs have wires! Wires explode!
But it's really kind of disturbing that the police who respond to that call *also* see a circuit board with a few LEDs and decide it might be a bomb and they'd better blow it up. That says to me that the police don't even know what a bomb looks like. So much for homeland security. - HCJfilms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22NUMBER 1 IN THE HOOD, G
- ggriffit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24So if something has lights, a circuit board, and wires it's automatically a bomb?! Common people. Chill out.
When did common sense go completely out the window?
The fear mongering of the media and government has to stop. In the 1980-90 so older guy would have walked over, poked it a little, maybe tried to break it, and then just thrown it away not knowing what it was. - FrankBattaglia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25sofa king, we Todd Ed
- supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Here is the video http://digg.com/videos/comedy/People_Thought_These_LED_Signs_Were_Terrorist_Bombs_Is_America_Retarded
- glhex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Quote from Mayor Menino :
“It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme. I am prepared to take any and all legal action against Turner Broadcasting and its affiliates for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today’s incidents. Boston will look to coordinate our efforts going forward with Cambridge, Somerville and any other affected agencies.”
Isn't it funny how the public would probably be brought up on charges of instating a riot for this, yet no one points a finger at the media? It's graffiti dammit, justifiably suspicious - and the police department did a good job of investigating. But this wasn't a "hoax" and it wasn't a "threat".
I'm sick of people calling this a "post 9/11 world". Get the ***** over it and start holding responsible parties responsible. It wasn't the boards that caused this, it was the media's over reaction! - binky79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20"Quiet, Err. I'm transmitting rage."
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+22It's a friggin LIGHT BRIGHT!!! What kind of Government MORONS blow up LIGHT BRIGHTS?
I guess all New Orleans needed to get some help during Katrina was to raid the local Toys R US...ahem. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Having never watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I wouldn't be able to put two and two together.
Though, I would probably thing nothing of what appears to be a motherboard hanging by a highway. - ajm1240, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19So, out of 10 cities, Boston is the Stupidist!
Be proud Beantown! You are the king of the dumbasses! - fivestarsoul, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Our god is an Indian that turns into a wolf.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Just goes to show you that the terrorists (both the radical muslims and the neocons) are winning.
- sKizZz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Let's play funny not funny.
Mooninites occupying the police for a day, funny. - candle.stick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16At what point do we stop calling the harmless little things "Devices"
- plato1123, on 10/12/2007, -10/+25Actually, I think this pretty much sums up the war-o-terror! If we put a fraction of the resources we are using fighting "terror" into anti-smoking campaigns or health care we could save many many times as many lives.
Terrorism is spreading widespread fear and our government plays right into it over and over again. -
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