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Bomb scare in Boston from Aqua Teen Hunger Force ad
cbs4boston.com — Suspicious items in Boston appear to be guerrilla ads for Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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- TheDonNMikeShow, on 10/12/2007, -281/+73Are the Mooninite's the terrorists George Bush swears we need protection from?
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -42/+156damn... 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. - LifeIsARhythm, on 10/12/2007, -16/+299I am embarrassed to be from Boston right now. How does a city overreact like this?
- JJsays, on 10/12/2007, -159/+18Ah, that's OK, Libs said there is no terrorism, it's all made up.
- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32@JJsays:
Well, in this case it was. - Th0Rr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+116"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 - 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. - 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.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+175So we are safe from bombs, just as long as they dont go off in under 3 weeks.
- fubuvsfitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53Perhaps whoever did this reported them in order to get them noticed nationally, finally.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+74You and your third dimension.
- Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -17/+10Sometimes the need to protect the public is a terrible strain, but we are doing it as hard as we can.
- SJS111567, on 10/12/2007, -40/+5@ DonNMikeShow:
Dugg down and blocked for being such a ***** retard! - 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. - 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.
- jessecurry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+97this is all because of 24
- 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. - teeheehee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Being a walking commuter I didn't hear anything about this until I got to work. There are a couple of people here who have been refreshing boston.com all day trying to get more information, not only because it would affect their commute but because they were worried.
Currently boston.com has in it's breaking news section the blurb:
Turner Broadcasting is expected to issue an apology for causing today's series of bomb scares throughout Boston. A statement emailed to the Globe from Turner Broadcasting said: "The 'packages' in question are magnetic lights that pose no danger. They are part of an outdoor marketing campaign in 10 cities in support of Adult Swim's animated television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards. We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger." - 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. - ohgr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+58Hey the band Boston called... they said they're changing their name to a less embarrassing city... like Shoboigin
- Herkimer56, on 10/12/2007, -22/+16I wondered how some of the people in Boston could be so stupid but then I remembered who they keep sending back to the Senate. Mystery solved!
- scottfarner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31sheboygan.
get your obscure Wisconsin towns right!
;) - cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -24/+3"Hurrr, I post to Digg and know about ATHF, this is an overreaction."
And what if it wasn't? - 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. - 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!!! - Resolver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+107boston, i am flipping you off as hard as i can.
- 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!!!"
- 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. - 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.
- FrankBattaglia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25sofa king, we Todd Ed
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+17He's right. Bush matters here. As one of the chief people pushing the culture of fear, he has a big hand in this becoming a big scare.
- joeydoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Didn't Rocketboom do this in New York? It's just little magnets with led's stuck to them. It makes metal buildings all twinkly.
You would have to be a retard to think it was a terrorist act and a bomb. - 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
- moncef, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3why's he getting dugg down for that?
I've heard much worse things said that have not been dugg down - babylonian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Haha, while I was listening to NPR in my car this morning, they gave this one or two lines of mention this afternoon. For some reaosn, the first thing I thought was "what if it's just viral marketing?"
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Speak of the devil... it's on now.
- Jammer, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1@Lifesarhythm
It's called 9/11, asshat. It was hardly an over-reaction. Get a ***** clue. - georgiepiebob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@jammer, hey, 9/11 was terribly overreacted. so what, 1 disater killed 3000 some people in one day... we make a big deal out of it and kill 3000 more of our own.. and then uncountable others. oh, and heres the kicker... more than that die daily due to even more horrible things, like poverty and/or cancer. 9/11 happened once, we overreacted, and so much has been wasted
- cleverboy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Dudes... I'm in Boston. I don't pretend this is anything more than it is, but you have to realize the media played its part, as WELL as the idiotic non-precautions taken by the advertising firm. Hm, could it have been useful perhaps to stick an explanation of the devices to the back just in case someone needed to know why an electronic device is attached under our bridges?
I posted in my blog about this at length:
http://www.xanga.com/gryphondwb/567029820/freedom-versus-fear.html
What's the alternative? Don't take things like this seriously, out of the hope that every single one of them will be harmless, and that if there's a problem, we can say that it was more important to be "easy going" than "fast acting" when creature comforts and our sense of humor is at stake?
Come on. Don't be naive. I don't want to see our freedoms affected by the fact that we have an ongoing "please report anything suspicious" request out to the public, but guess what... that's just reality now. These guys should have used glow-in-the-dark stickers if they wanted to be so mysterious. Lite-Brite jimmy-rigs with no notices were a dumb, dumb, dumb idea.
Don't think so? Try doing it in your city, with a character flipping the bird. Use lots of block masking tape, and stick it to public structures like bridges and light posts. Good luck. I bet you depending on the city, and the randomness of whether someone who doesn't "get it" calls it in, you'll likely be in trouble. - quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@cleverboy
I totally agree. On the way to work this morning, I saw an LED "Yes, We're OPEN!" sign. You'll be happy to know that I called 911 and inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of people and wasted millions of taxpayer dollars.
BTW, great idea about the "THIS IS NOT A BOMB" sticker. I've requested that all electronic devices on the planet be required to have this sticker. But, SHHHHH, don't tell the terrorists, or they might start using it too! OH NOES! - ChoadNamath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@cleverboy
"Don't think so? Try doing it in your city, with a character flipping the bird. Use lots of block masking tape, and stick it to public structures like bridges and light posts. Good luck. I bet you depending on the city, and the randomness of whether someone who doesn't "get it" calls it in, you'll likely be in trouble."
They *did* do this in my city, as well as 8 others. Guess how many people phoned it in to the police? - DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@cleverboy
I'd be more worried about the "non-precautions" taken by your city where people can gain access to your "sensitive areas" and leave devices containting "components consistent with IEDs". Seriously, this is corporate graphiti, not terrorism. No rational person would have forseen these as being mistaken for bombs or other insidious devices while making them. The fact that there were no warning labels is actually good as those usually indicate that something bad is happening inside the box. - n1ghtw0lf81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Looks like the Mooninites are terrorists and part of the axis of evil.
http://www.shatteredwindows.com/Home/tabid/53/ctl/Details/mid/409/ItemID/102/Default.aspx - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"They've been described as "pipe bombs" and "sophisticated electronic devices.""
Apparently, the police never even looked on the back of them?
They should then clearly see they consist of:
1. Lots of LED's in front.
2. Around 4 batteries on the back to power the LED's.
3. Extremely simple circuitry for the LED's.
Do they not know how pipe bombs work? Or how can they call that sophisticated?
Evil device: http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5242/pipebombbr1.jpg - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey, how can I get one of these Moonie things? I'll put it up on my own house. Then let Homeland Security come try to take it down. You bastards.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[quote]You would have to be a retard to think it was a terrorist act and a bomb.[/quote]
Everyone should see The Russians Are Coming, if you haven't already. You'll realize the majority of Americans have always been paranoid idiots. Someone should remake that movie and call it The Terrorists Are Coming.
Or there was that Twilight Zone episode, where the small town thinks it's been invaded by aliens and everyone turns on each other because of rumors and hysteria.
Another great example is Orson Welles' War of the Worlds prank.
It's amazing how people will be paranoid about everything except what's really out to get you: the crooks in the government! - cleverboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@DreKor: "No rational person would have forseen these as being mistaken for bombs or other insidious devices while making them."
First off, you dont mean "forseen" [sic][sp]. The problem was there were alerts happening in London that morning as well, and when the reports came in, people found some "non-ATHF" devices as well... mixed together, you get confusion. If didn't help that these things were all far out of reach as well. I'll assume you saw how they were placed. Meh. Moot point now. My recommendation? Street promoters should think about marking their "blinking lite-brites" with contact info next time. It would help to even have a phone number to call, so that the concern doesn't rise to the level of "news", before a response is recieved.
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -42/+156damn... you had to take a swipe at bush in this one too?
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -20/+13Someone is gonna be SO fired.
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+137They're going to be fired . . . with a QUAD LASER!
- capiCrimm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43then silently rehired. You can't ask for publicity like this.
- 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?
- JackyTreehorn, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1I thought it was "Quad Glacier"
- kurupt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Where are my charts?
No CHARTS!@
SOMEBODY'S FIRED!
I'm just gonna shut the door behind me,
you go back to bed, you trooper."
- Master Shake to Frylock in "Super Bowl" - 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.
- 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. - RTourn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Blame the caller, just because something new doesn't make it a bomb! Besides more people die from swimming pools than Terrorism. The Terrorist win when we live in terror of our day to day life and we begin to suspect and turn on each other! This is not the type of world, I want my children growing up in.
- alluciano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Quad laser"
Tell the Mayor that we are also living in a post revolutionary war era and it is inappropriate to have a team called the Patriots or a post Godzilla era(Green Monster), post civil war(no more reenactments.) do I really need to go on?
- 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- addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://awesomewolfen.ytmnd.com/
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The strain is unbearable, but I'm doing it harder than ever before...
- Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15All your Boston are belong to us!
- 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!
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I can't believe I caused so much trouble myself... behold the power of the moon people.
- 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!
- 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. - sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15It's too bad that this kind of advertising will probably be shot down in the future. I like these kinds of tactics because it's not just some stupid billboard or commercial, it's something that those who know what it is will appreciate and sort of makes you feel like an insider. Kind of that all that weird fascination with the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I don't get it but I think it's kind of neat that people are that into something.
- willh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@elnerdo
it seems it looks more like a Light Brite than a motherboard. Even the kiddies with their modded computer cases don't have that much light.
...usually http://www.mashie.org/casemods/pics/syrinix_38.jpg - smackhero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8that's actually a cool ad campaign. i wish we saw more creative marketing like this than huge billboards that cover our cities. it's ***** that retards have instilled so much fear in our society (and dumbasses that cower to these fears) that harmless creative expression can be villainized like this. who the hell looks at those devices and immediately thinks "OMG! TERRORISTS!!"
- quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@sjbdallas
Are you kidding? Think of all the free advertising! Go ATHF! - Endeavour3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13According to a government representative that I'm listening to on the radio, any normal person would have judged these things as bombs as well. This solidifies my opinion that the people running the Boston government are idiots.
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4they keep calling it a hoax, implying that the creator intended it to look like a bomb..... it was board with LED lights with a cartoon character!!! They can't prosecute this guy... how could he have predicted that the people would freak out over this?? his actions were legal until someone else got scared for no reason, are we now going to get thrown in jail for what other people mistakenly thing we're doing??? I go geocaching alot.. its fun... should i now watch over my shoulder in case someone thinks i'm a terrorist putting a plastic dinosaur into a box?
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Having never watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I wouldn't be able to put two and two together.
- 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."
- fivestarsoul, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Our god is an Indian that turns into a wolf.
- DesktopGeneral, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Its the Wolfen man
- DreKor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yes, the Wolfen will come for you with his razor.
(fivestarsoul is right, btw) - nxusername, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1And action!
- Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2"Our god is an Indian that turns into a wolf."
Wait, wait, wait. Link is an Indian god?
- punch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67CNN Breaking News: Space Ghost attempts to kidnap the Bush twins.
- 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- keegan3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Thanks for the close up, I was going to ask if anyone had one.
How the hell was this mistaken for a bomb? - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24It's easy to mistake it for a bomb if you're not the Moon Master.
- ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3A true warrior would have pounced on it... like a beast.
- Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't think those are the same, look at the news clips, the "devices" have a different outline for the top of their head. Close, might have been a prototype.
- pauleric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's another:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/2007/0131/10891376_400X300.jpg
I want to know why that little guy is giving me the finger? I'm gonna sue somebody!
- keegan3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Thanks for the close up, I was going to ask if anyone had one.
- dugon666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Revenge of the Mooninites!
....the just recently started to block of that oh so offensive middle finger, on channel 5.- AK10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Yea but on the major cable new networks the pictures are all over. It's ***** awesome seeing some talking head spouting FUD next to a cut-in of a Mooninite flipping the bird!
Totally worth it! Go Cartoon Network!
- AK10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Yea but on the major cable new networks the pictures are all over. It's ***** awesome seeing some talking head spouting FUD next to a cut-in of a Mooninite flipping the bird!
- hathewj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I would share a laugh with coworkers, but no one in my office has any clue what ATHF is. In fact, no one in this general area of the state has any idea what it is.
- 1310nm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I had the same experience. Was watching Faux News (as I always do all day at work), and when they finally got a close up of the "suspicious package", I turned to my co-worker and said, "Holy ***** dude, that's the ATHF guy," to which he replied, "Whatever."
Fox's Shephard Smith classified ATHF as a "stoner cartoon" repeatedly after the truth was revealed. It had to either be stoners or college students, in his mind. And I thought he was one of the more reasonable figures on Fox. - rockhauler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"No on has any idea what it is"
They do now!
- 1310nm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I had the same experience. Was watching Faux News (as I always do all day at work), and when they finally got a close up of the "suspicious package", I turned to my co-worker and said, "Holy ***** dude, that's the ATHF guy," to which he replied, "Whatever."
- Wireddd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I actually bumped into one of the adult swim guys buying a bunch of leds for this at the frys in duluth. I just had to know what he was making with a shopping cart of leds
- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13What it doubly awesome is that they've been there for weeks.
- caketank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah, nice to know that if someone *were* to make bombs and leave them lying around the city, the homeland security apparatus would be on top of it.
In a few weeks.
Provided the bombs had big glowing cartoon characters on them.
- caketank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah, nice to know that if someone *were* to make bombs and leave them lying around the city, the homeland security apparatus would be on top of it.
- combustion8, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0yes!! moonites rule!!!
the "journey belt" was the best show ever.- combustion8, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1edit: foreigner belt not journey
- Apeezee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Sweeet.
- sKizZz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Let's play funny not funny.
Mooninites occupying the police for a day, funny.- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Mooninites turning out to be real bombs, not funny.
- binky79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20"Quiet, Err. I'm transmitting rage."
- durazine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43They blurred his middle finger on the news, come on people.
- bill.clark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ha ha...fools. I'm glad I'm home already and don't have to deal with the traffic!
- HCJfilms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21NUMBER 1 IN THE HOOD, G
- nxusername, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tha moon rulez #1
- Shiftgood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12nxusername
I dont think your icon is very funny. I think its a terroist bomb. im calling the police right now. and my lawyer.
praise jesus.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43This ad campaign is more advanced than boston can comprehend with 100% of their brain.
- LeberMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5LMAO. Funny, funny, stuff. Now I'll have to watch Adult Swim just to see what they say about it...
- ratbear, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Absolutely effin hilarious. Six years later and we still live in a constant state of fear perpetuated by our government and the hysterical media. This is one viral campaign that will be a smashing success.
- jayhawks71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your post captured it perfectly. The fear and anxiety are 99.9% due to to the governments' responses to a PERCEIVED threat.
I was glad to see the comments on here were in-line with what I thought before reading them. They want to blame the "ads" for "shutting the city down"... no, the city of Boston overreacted and shut the city down. Someone cried bomb and they overreacted. The evidence suggests that the only "hoax" was perpetrated by the person who cried bomb; no other cities were shut down because of the ads (multiple control groups)... in Boston... the government got wind of the "ads" (the experimental group) and brought panic and millions in law enforcement out...
Hmmm result.... Ads alone condition... no problem..... Ad + government = problems..... conclusion.... either the government was the cause or the interaction of the two... the ads alone did nothing... hell they weren't even noticed I guess...
- jayhawks71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your post captured it perfectly. The fear and anxiety are 99.9% due to to the governments' responses to a PERCEIVED threat.
- Shiftgood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Why they calling the police? they should call Frylock.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3True, I mean, the Aqua Teens are detectives.
- xlent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2lol had to request my password to dig this
i cant wait for the parody to start churning in (snl) - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The video from the article is even funnier than the article itself. I love the way they keep referring to it as a "hoax" when in reality it's an ad campaign. And the newscaster is so unfamiliar with the subject he even goes so far as to call the character portrayed on the panels to be Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Not a character FROM Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but Aqua Teen Hunger Force himself.
N00b. A ten second Google search could have set him straight. Television news is so lame; they just don't try at all. - swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Fox news boston has a video up in which they open by saying this is an Adult Swim marketing prank, and then continue to refer to the LEDS as "explosive devices" for the remainder of the segment. The Right has a vested interest in fostering fear.
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Boston is hardly right-wing.
- diggumjonez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@catalisys: Boston is hardly right-wing.
yes, but Fox News is, you dolt.
- cprincipe, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2So f@(#&*@(*#(*#@(ing retarded.
Wicked retarded, as a matter of fact.- Flump5000, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1i hope they can see this because im foing it as hard as i can
- mh969, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0would not want to be a part of the marketing firm responsible for this!
- xlent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is the best marketing ever.. for the ATHF anyways, not so great on the boston police side tho
not because they had any intention of having anyone over react like this.. just a stroke of luck or.. stupidity. - graphicNature, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This campaign turned out to be more successful than they planned I'm sure.
- xlent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is the best marketing ever.. for the ATHF anyways, not so great on the boston police side tho
- IchiroBoston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that is great!!!! ATHF RULES! :) I have to belive that boston knew about this and just dropped the ball on communication. lol I want one of thse boxes
- ohmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.interferenceinc.com/ is the company that did all these, it came out of the south boston graffiti convention
- durazine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11good god, now every old person is going to ask me if I've ever heard of a "Teenaged Aqua Hunger Force"
- Mewchu11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Man I shoulda grabbed one before the police decided to start blowing them up...
ebay would have loved it. - 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?
- lukehh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if you want to arrest your dealer!
- JimmyDushku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, call Jack Bauer!
- Lokiavanger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I hope they can see this because I'm doing it as hard as I can...
- dext3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3***** hilarious, pwned by the Mooninites. IN REAL TIME.
- holzp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17If you think that was a bomb, wait for the movie!
- cpuenvy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is beyond all you can comprehend.
- jennsterr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Boston just got a pride obliterating bitch slap from the Aqua Teens...this story made my day :]
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Moon # 1!
- FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3On the Moon, we have evolved beyond the need for ad campaigns.
Boston is nothing like the band Boston. - Cowboy5995, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I hope they can see this because I am doing this as hard as I can. (middle finger
- motalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is the best story iv seen on digg ever!
- deathdefyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3oh my god i love it.
- Afrotronics, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This shows that 1)some people are really out of touch with pop culture (which eventually makes it's way to being culture-culture) and 2)law in enforcement in Boston are not very locagical people. I understand that you have to take precautions when dealing with suspicious looking electronics, but this seems more like a "oops, we f*cked up and now we're embarrassed" kind of story. Looking at it from a slightly more logical perspective, if some one wanted to blow up a bunch of different locations wouldn't they want to make an IED that's a little less noticeable? In this case I honestly think if there was an 18 year old police "explorer" (aka a police officer in training), this situation might have not gotten so out of hand.
- Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1enforcement.
- ErrorOfRuto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Upon returning to the station, Boston police officers were stunned to find a window had been broken and several cases of beer were missing from their refrigerator. No connections have yet been found linking the incident to the mysterious devices."
- kurupt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Sadness is for poor people."
- alluciano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"And someone had made away with their boxes of porn and the Foreigner Belt"
"I want to know what (a bomb) is
I want you to show me"
- mianus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1This literally made me laugh out laud. How can a whole city be so stupid? Has no one ever watched this show?
Could the rest of our government be this stupid too?
need i say the name of the person you are thinking of?- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6And what would you have them do?
Simple scenario. Make 10 devices that are LED sponge bob square pants and look just like an ad campaign. Place 9 around the city. ESU and Police respond with bomb suits and the whole 9 yards. After 3 or 4 they figure out that they're just some morons idea of an ad for the show. Then place the 10th one out and call it in. Only this time you lace it with C4 , termite or a willie pete that you've bought on the black market. Police in responding figure it's just another moron Sponge Bob and go in with out protective gear. Suddenly POOF.
If I can make this up on the fly in responding to a thread, some bright boy with a mission and determination can do the same.
The Morons are not the police who have to respond to these calls, its the brainpans that
A: Make these things up and don't advise folks that they're out there and,
B: The arm-chair quarterbacks that sit back and call us a bunch of fools for responding the way we're trained to.
YOU go out to the next bomb call, I'll sit at home and let you know how you could have done it better. - gimpbully, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1my friend, you can say that about any situation. At some point, you realize that you're wasting time and money.
- themouth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@arcangelgabriel
OK, here's a better idea, strap some C4 to a nondescript container such as a piece of tire, perhaps a tool box, maybe even a CAR (cause you know, car bombing is a foreign concept to the terrorists), place the same container on a random location with a timer (sans-LEDs) and blow it up.
A terrorist isn't going to go out of his way to make a fake advertising campaign when he can just take advantage of people's innate tendencies to ignore objects that don't look out of place. While your scenario is technically possible, the probability of it happening is incredibly small.
There's also a possibility (albeit small) that terrorists could strap bombs to pigeons, squirrels, small children, American flags, road signs, etc. Should we also flip out and spend time an energy whenever one of these objects shows up on a bridge?
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6And what would you have them do?
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3-bradbradbrad-
"What are you embarrassed about? That the cops in Boston are stupid? The cops everywhere are stupid, how do you think they became cops in the first place?"
How would you like them to react? Nonchalant? Yea sure they were harmless devices, but if they were not and police ignored them, you'd be right there pointing fingers from behind your monitor.
As for cops being stupid. I've been a police officer for 16 years, hold 2 degrees and can speak 3 languages.
Please, do go on about how stupid I am.- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It isn't the police that were stupid, it is the person that called the police claiming that they were bombs that is stupid. If the police never got calls about them this wouldn't have been an issue.
- craig870, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@brad
Why? What did you do..err I mean what did they do to you?
- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12They should charge the person who called them in as bombs, not the company that created them.
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4It's not the persons fault who calls it in anymore than someone calling in a burglary in progress or similar that turns out to be nothing.
You get a particular call and you respond to it. If you find a device that your unfamiliar with the first rule in handling it is not 'grab the device, shake it to see what happens.'
Common sense keeps you alive. I've been on several bomb calls in my career. Most are crap, several are the real deal and rarely make the news. Please let me know which ones to pick as false, it would save us a heap of time. - geekd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@arcangelgabriel :
The ones that are paper thin and lit up with the "LOOK AT ME" lights are the ones that are not bombs. - BT1000101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Common sense keeps you alive. "
Where the ***** in ANY of the panic over these lighboards was even a shred of common sense?!?!? The asshats who made the calls, the law enforcement that responded, the politicians that seem destined to lose their ***** jobs, are ALL guilty of criminal negligence! Cartoon Network and the Adult Swim people have NOTHING to apologize for, at all!
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4It's not the persons fault who calls it in anymore than someone calling in a burglary in progress or similar that turns out to be nothing.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Mooninites UNITE!
- tomcody09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5best viral advertising campaign ever
- plato1123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Oh my God, it's a cartoon character with flashing LEDs!!! Shut down the highway!!! DAMN YOU OSAMA!!!!"
Hopefully these things saved some Bostonians traffic tickets =-p -
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