Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Not #1 in the Boston hood, G

nevermind, the finger was censored on cnn's homepage, but not on the image within the article

Personally, I find the whole thing hilarious. Calling in bomb squads over a pseudo light bright sign? Please.

"It had a very sinister appearance," Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."

LOL

Hilarious it is. Pathetic, too. Good job, Beantown.

i love how towns that are not manhattan or hollywood think that anything that's slightly unusual is a terrorist thread.

who wants more federal cash?? c'mon, grab for it.

look, the next terrorist attack will be against a manhattan icon, an LA icon, or will be numerous attacks on small-town shopping malls.

if you're a minor city, you'll be a minor target.

relax, goddamnit.

The planes that were hijacked on 9/11 took off from Logan Airport in Boston. The same airport was also where the shoe bomber was caught.

boston has terror history wrote:

The planes that were hijacked on 9/11 took off from Logan Airport in Boston. The same airport was also where the shoe bomber was caught.

There were devices in Manhanttan, too. They didn't cause any panic. In fact, some of the devices in Boston, according to news reports, had been up for THREE WEEKS. Way to be on top of things.

CNN just said that they've been up in 10 other cities with no problems. Boston just looks stupid at this point. I can't believe they are arresting the guys that made them. This is simply Boston trying to cover it's dumb butt at this point.

Oh, and the finger wasn't censored on CNN tv just now. They probably figure hey, we own this, we may as well get as much advertising mileage as possible.

I don't think Boston was dumb ...

They were the first to notice these things that were supposed to light up at night and the signs were placed underneath bridges for our most major highways and subway systems. If you were a terrorist, there is no better place to put a bomb to really disrupt the city.

I find it hard to believe a top priority for terrorists would be to snarl traffic for the morning commute. Oohh, no!

Mooninites wrote:

Personally, I find the whole thing hilarious. Calling in bomb squads over a pseudo light bright sign? Please.

A circuit board with wires attached and a large tube-like thing taped to it. These were placed under BRIDGES in something like 28 places over the city. How stupid would you have to be to NOT to take this seriously?

You really think that the bomb squad should have just said, "Oh hey look, it's got little lights on it, it must be harmless," and walked away?

That's the problem with this stuff. You HAVE to take it seriously.

terrorists love aqua teen hunger force?

And oddly enough those are the same places where you get large amounts of people passing by and seeing the ad. People in the other 10 cities I'm sure saw them and didn't think anything of it. There's no way other people had gone 2 to 3 weeks without seeing them if they are in such high traffic areas.

It's a flat piece of metal with a cartoon character. If it WAS a bomb it'd have the fire power of an M80.

It's sad that we live in a world where we must freak out over EVERYTHING. This isn't the first time something like this has happened, promotion for Mission Impossible 3:

To promote the film, Paramount rigged 4,500 randomly selected Los Angeles Times vending boxes with digital audio players which would play the theme song when the door was opened. The audio players did not always stay concealed, however, and in many cases came loose and fell on top of the stack of newspapers in plain view, with the result that they were widely mistaken for bombs. Police bomb squads detonated a number of the vending boxes and even temporarily shut down a veterans' hospital in response to the apparent "threat". Despite these problems, Paramount and The LA Times opted to leave the audio players in the boxes until two days after the movie's opening.

From Lisa de Moraes in the Wash. Post:

The Department of Homeland Security sprang into action, assuring Americans yesterday afternoon that, as the Associated Press reported, it had found "no credible reports of other devices being found elsewhere in the country."

Which is ironic because Turner Broadcasting said in a statement that it had planted loads of these devices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Austin, San Francisco and Philly. Department of Homeland Security doing its usual great work.

It's fine for the bomb squad to blow it them up if they want to. What I can't stand is that Boston isn't admitting it was nothing and moving on (if they want to take them all down, that's fine, no big deal). The problem here is Boston is seriously trying and prosecute people over this? You can't be serious. The prosecution has to prove that the makers of the ad. were trying to make fake bombs, which is pretty much going to be impossible to prove.

I live in DC, packages are blown up everyday. The difference is people here aren't trying to prosecute everyone because of it.

newton north high school, right outside of boston, had a bomb threat today.

ATHF wrote:

The prosecution has to prove that the makers of the ad. were trying to make fake bombs, which is pretty much going to be impossible to prove.

no...there are charges involved that are much easier to prove

read something!

ATHF wrote:

It's fine for the bomb squad to blow it them up if they want to. What I can't stand is that Boston isn't admitting it was nothing and moving on (if they want to take them all down, that's fine, no big deal). The problem here is Boston is seriously trying and prosecute people over this? You can't be serious. The prosecution has to prove that the makers of the ad. were trying to make fake bombs, which is pretty much going to be impossible to prove.

I live in DC, packages are blown up everyday. The difference is people here aren't trying to prosecute everyone because of it.

YES a big deal. It shut down traffic for hours all over the city. The city must have spent tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars on the bomb squad, extra police, and a dozen other things to deal with it. They spent all that because they have to take this stuff seriously. They can't afford not to. Just because you saw on CNN that it was probably TBS doesn't mean they can just sit back and let it go. They have to be certain.

Say I'm a terrorist and I'm watching this. Now I've got an idea. If I ever want to plant a bunch of explosive devices all over a city, I'll just a big smiley face on them and everyone can say, "Oh, they're just a harmless marketing campaign," and be done with it.

Welcome to the age of terrorism in the USA.

If anything like this ever did turn out to be a real series of bombs or the like and they actually went off, you would be among the hordes of voices crying about them not taking it seriously.

If this were London they'd sure as hell take it seriously. They have to. Experience has taught them that. I'm sorry to say we do too.

I drive over that section of I-93 several times a week. I'm glad they reacted as they did. The big culprit here is TBS. How stupid do you have to be to dream up something like this an NOT consider the possibility that it might cause problems. It doesn't take a genius to figure secretly placing stuff that looks like an explosive under a freaking BRIDGE is not a bright idea. All it takes is a little C-4.