This is some stupid shit.
I've watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force.. hell, I own the first three seasons on DVD.
So.. since this is front page news, and I have a blog, here's my two cents.
Turner Broadcasting and the City of Boston share responsibility for this being a huge
Okay, mostly I'm pissed that we are so scare-minded that not only is it easy to assume that any package that has wires, and is attached to a pixelated neon dude flipping the bird is certainly a bomb, but also that we're going to charge people with placing a hoax device in a way that results in panic. They were not a hoax of any kind! It was a perhaps poorly conceived advertising campaign.
From this article on CNN.com: "Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards "bomblike" devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged infrastructure and transportation in the city.".
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In other news that I just made up, Assistant Attourney General Grossman also described empty cardboard shoe-boxes as being "about the same size as something that could be a bomb", and went on to say that if each shoe-box in the country were in fact filled with explosives, that it could "blow the whole nation to shit".
Edit: There's been an update. This is terrific:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4&eurl=
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