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

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

Average_Joe wrote:

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.

So you're saying Boston is smarter than New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, and all the other cities who had these devices up for weeks, with no bruhaha? These other cities are laughing their assess off right now. Boston is a laughing stock. What a joke.

btw, so far as a marketing ploy, this is going better than TBS could ever imagine. My bet is that ratings for Aqua Teen shoot up in the near term.

Average_Joe wrote:

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.

What is it that makes it look "like an explosive"? Are terrorist bombs in real life replicas of what they are in the movies where there are superfluous flashing LEDs, red digital clock conveniently displaying hundredths of a second to add to the tension as they count down and complicated circuit boards?

Just what quantity of C4 are you qualifying as "a little" that would be enough to do any damage to a bridge built to withstand hurricanes or earthquakes?

Who defines what the average citizen might think "looks like" an explosive? I can open my computer box and see a lot of circuit boards and compartments that make it look like an explosive device.

What an interesting way of pinning the blame on someone. Let's review. Two twenty somethings have been arrested for being hired by an advertising firm to put up advertisements. The lowest order of the corporate food chain is taken as bait while the bigger fish at Turner continue swimming.

We should also note that it's not even a big deal. Why? Because there never was any credible threat. The threat was created, magnified, and sufficiently blown out of proportion by what was either the cynicism and coldness of the police or their mere ineptitude. Bets are on the latter. It was discovered, eventually, that is was a CARTOON (a detail easily attainable from any one of the thousands of people walking the streets in Boston), yet the police kept on going, at the orders of someone evidently on a power trip.

Meanwhile the self-adulatory congratulations come from the heads of governmental entities for their swift and unmerciful action. Deval Patrick is apparently outraged, and the swiftest minds of the intelligence community and Homeland Security were unable to determine it to be a cartoon. Such was the imminent peril of the people of Boston that, after a few T lines were shut down during rush hour in the morning, officials were still closing down Huntington Avenue during the evening rush hour, unable to catch up to the reality handed down throughout the day by officials as well as skeptical and amused students. "Oh my," they thought, "'terrorists' are going to blow up MassArt because of its heathenish tendencies and it's Adult Swim ads."

There's no apology needed from Turner. It's a cartoon ad. They've been in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Fran and Philly for a couple weeks. The apology is needed from Boston officials who senselessly closed down the city over a cartoon ad.

This whole "post-9/11 world" thing is also a joke. I'm sick of the American people being sold this crap and eating it up like candy. In fifty years, readers of history books will be condescendingly and judgmentally reading the history of the American people as we today tend to read the history of Germans in the 1940's. How could people believe themselves so brave and noble but be so cowardly and subhuman? This whole ridiculous charade in Boston is part of a quite clear and larger pattern. To iterate, this was not/is not a big deal. It was an ad campaign.

Now, for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cI7OiElQ7U

Asterix wrote:

What is it that makes it look "like an explosive"? Are terrorist bombs in real life replicas of what they are in the movies where there are superfluous flashing LEDs, red digital clock conveniently displaying hundredths of a second to add to the tension as they count down and complicated circuit boards?

Just what quantity of C4 are you qualifying as "a little" that would be enough to do any damage to a bridge built to withstand hurricanes or earthquakes?

Who defines what the average citizen might think "looks like" an explosive? I can open my computer box and see a lot of circuit boards and compartments that make it look like an explosive device.

Actually, you see, there's this official terrorist dictionary that defines exactly what "looks like" and does not look like an explosive. It is distributed to all citizens of the earth. We have regular meetings with the terrorists to coordinate our activities so that our guerilla marketing does not conflict with their bombs.

Either that or you are completely missing the point. They have to react (and frankly overreact) to such things as these devices these days. They can't afford not to. They can't sit there and say, "Oh well, there couldn't be enough enough C-4 to kill more than a few people so we can just let it go and laugh it off."

And a large company like TBS with, one would assume, an army of marketers, lawyers, public relations reps, etc should have among the lot of them managed to have one person who could have spoken up and said, "Uh guys, maybe this isn't the best idea."

ATHF wrote:

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[quote]ATHF wrote:

Have Turner pay for the bomb squad and end this.

Are you stupid or what? Do you know how many years its been since Ted Turner had anything to do with CNN?

Here's the artist's website with pix of the dislpays and locations in town, although it seems to be down:

http://www.zebbler.com/friends/ATHF/mission1/mission1.html

I think Boston needs better bomb/threat ID training. These things are pretty obviously harmless, as 9 other cities determined.

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ATHF wrote:

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[quote]ATHF wrote:

Have Turner pay for the bomb squad and end this.

Are you stupid or what? Do you know how many years its been since Ted Turner had anything to do with CNN?

TURNER BROADCASTIN NETWORK. Sorry for not writing the whole thing out. The man and his station have the same name. Thanks for trying to be an ass.

Maybe the person means Turner the network, not Turner the person, which means the person wants Time Warner to pay for Boston's over reaction.

Average_Joe wrote:

Either that or you are completely missing the point. They have to react (and frankly overreact) to such things as these devices these days. They can't afford not to. They can't sit there and say, "Oh well, there couldn't be enough enough C-4 to kill more than a few people so we can just let it go and laugh it off."

I'm sorry. I wasn't as clear as I should have been with my point.

My question is: how dissimilar to an actual bomb must anything be before average citizens will not flip out and expect their local police to react?

Lots of bombs can be made to look very innocuous and lots of innocent items can be interpreted by someone, somewhere as being a possible bomb.

Where does one draw the line?

broadcasting* You people just lurk, waiting to jump on anything you can, don't you.

Asterix wrote:

I'm sorry. I wasn't as clear as I should have been with my point.

My question is: how dissimilar to an actual bomb must anything be before average citizens will not flip out and expect their local police to react?

Lots of bombs can be made to look very innocuous and lots of innocent items can be interpreted by someone, somewhere as being a possible bomb.

Where does one draw the line?

I sure don't know. I can tell you that I personally have no clue what a real bomb actually looks like or could look like.

Good article in the Boston Globe today about all this (Actually MANY articles as you can imagine). It portrays the confusion as, to some extent, sympomatic of a generation gap Mentions how one young guy, coming out of a local bar, saw one of these things and knew exactly what it was. Another guy, an older subway worker, didn't know what it was and called the police.

I'm 39 and had no idea what "Adult Swim" was. I don't think I would have called the cops had I seen something like that but I can't blame the guy.

I sure wish though that in the very least, SOMEONE at Turner could have alerted the authorities before they ever did the campaign, letting them know the things would be there. On the other hand, if it's true "guerilla marketing", they really can't do that or would probably get shot down by the city, thereby killing the campaign before it began.

Stupid chowds! I hope that Boston's finest are real proud of yourselves arresting these two low-level functionaries while MC Pee Pants roams free. They should be looking for an eight foot tall spider wearing adult diapers because he is INSANE!!!!

Be on the lookout for Mooninites showing up in Hopkinton on Patriot's Day. "Shall I turn it up for you, Boston?"

I Know These Things to be True wrote:

Stupid chowds! I hope that Boston's finest are real proud of yourselves arresting these two low-level functionaries while MC Pee Pants roams free. They should be looking for an eight foot tall spider wearing adult diapers because he is INSANE!!!!

Be on the lookout for Mooninites showing up in Hopkinton on Patriot's Day. "Shall I turn it up for you, Boston?"

I want candy!

One of my current coworkers and one fellow who just retired both had sisters-in-law who were flight attendants on the WTC-crashed planes.

Be careful what you say, OK? Placing anything suspcious on or near a bridge or train tracks or heavily travelled area does warrant attention.

When they found NINE of the damned things, and the Turner people did not call in a timely fashion...they supposedly released their press notice as the Press conference was ending...

What do you expect the Powers That Be to do.

If I can't travel beyond and across both space and time through the Fargate to get free cable, then the terrorists have already won.

“It’s clear the intent was to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location,” Assistant Attorney General John Grossman said at their arraignment.

Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what their intent was. Boy, Beantown is looking worse and worse everytime some official opens his mouth.

Stupid ass Boston Police. The laughingstock of the world.

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.

Average Joe...It doesn't take a genius to see clearly that these in NO WAY look like bombs. My god man...Lets use some common sense here. Did you see these so called explosive looking devices??? LOL