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How can there not already be a thread on this?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/bos...are/index.html

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Electronic light boards featuring an adult-cartoon character triggered bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday, spurring authorities to close two bridges and a stretch of the Charles River before determining the devices were harmless.

Turner Broadcasting Co., the parent company of CNN, said the devices contained harmless magnetic lights aimed at promoting the Adult Swim network's late-night cartoon "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." Law enforcement sources said the devices displayed one of the Mooninites, outer-space delinquents who appear frequently on the show, greeting visitors with a raised middle finger.

"While the concern is lessened as a result of the investigation, I'd like to remind citizens to treat any suspicious devices with care and to call 911 if any such device is found," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said.

The devices had been placed as part of an "outdoor marketing campaign" in 10 cities, a Turner Broadcasting statement said.

"Parent company Turner Broadcasting is in contact with local and federal law enforcement on the exact locations of the billboards," the statement said. "We regret that they were mistakenly thought to pose any danger."

Turner said the devices had been in place for two to three weeks in Boston; New York; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; San Francisco, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A Turner Broadcasting source said the devices were a component of a third-party advertising campaign conducted by the New York advertising firm Interference Inc. That company had no comment on the incident.

The discovery of nine of the devices around metro Boston led state, local and federal authorities to close the Boston University and Longfellow Bridges, and block boat traffic from the Charles River to Boston Harbor.

In addition, the Pentagon said U.S. Northern Command was monitoring the situation from its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but said none of its units were sent to assist.

Davis said police "are going to fully investigate this and get to the bottom of it."

The first suspicious device turned up Wednesday morning at the Sullivan Square commuter rail station, near the suburb of Somerville. Wednesday afternoon four other devices were reported -- near the Longfellow and Boston University bridges over the Charles, at New England Medical Center and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus avenues in the city.

Three others turned up in other locations around Boston as well, Davis said.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

OH MY GOD. that billboard has been there forever! LOL

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

How can there not already be a thread on this?

shocking, isn't it? maybe just too perfect?

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

we need the full link. the SA-style link truncating isn't working here.

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

this is my favorite notice so far. who says there's no more culture gap?

Fox News reports, "According to the Cartoon Network, the show is an animated comedy about three detectives in the shape of human-sized food products that live together in a rental house in New Jersey. Master Shake is the self-appointed team leader, while the 'reasonable' Frylock is a box of french-fried potatoes, and the Meatwad character is a round mound of meat.

[my italics]

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

this was all over NPR on the way home, complete with clips Mayor Menino decreeing dire consequences for those perpetuating this "hoax."

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

I had an IM off a friend at 4:30 asking if I'd heard about the bomb scares then, not 10 mins. later, an official email from HR warning there might be servere delays due to the pending police investigation. My trip home was a breeze and was then able to read what really happened. So embarrassing! So great!

― ENBB (expatrica), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure at the time he made that statement, they didn't know it was a marketing campaign, just that the "devices" were not bombs.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

This is too funny. I wonder who is going to get in trouble for this.

― Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_031135507.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

how long was that hoax on public display before the shit (finally) hit the fan?

I keep hearing three weeks.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

possible upside --

viral marketing now classified as a terrorist activity; thousands of bloggers forced to find honest jobs.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

we need the full link. the SA-style link truncating isn't working here.

Whoops! Thanks for the heads-up: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html

I am a little disturbed by the suggestion that because someone went off half-cocked it's somehow the billboard's fault. Also, is Boston really the only city these are up in?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

hahah. nice headline, alex:

Stoners, Media Conglomerate Responsible for Boston Bomb Hoax

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/375967773_9dfcbfa8af.jpg?v=0

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

“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.”

LOLZ

― grbchv! (skowly), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

Also, is Boston really the only city these are up in?

No, they're also in 9 other cities where residents are intelligent enough not to mistake a light brite for a bomb.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

I do like the idea of terrorists that make a cute little cartoon on their bombs

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe Al Queda will create a cute little mascot now.

― Super Cub (Debito), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

"Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," Markey, a Democrat, said in a written statement. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."

Yeah, putting up an ad that looks nothing like a bomb and then "forcing" emergency services to "respond" to them is much more appalling than death by water poisoning.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://microrevolt.org/reblog/archives/bomb_knit.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://members.aol.com/chrispyk16/frylock.gif

I am Frylock from Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!

Which Aqua Teen Hunger Force character are you??

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/newt1.1827.boston.wcvb.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

OH NO they tied up the T!!!

This is like saying "they made snails go slower."

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

how much you wanna bet those bomb squad guys were all wtf lol thats no bomb the second they looked at it.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jtf.org/america/ooo.02012006.muslim.terror.danish.cartoon.turban.bomb.175.jpg

xpost

― S- (sgh), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

the bird photoshopped out for media purposes?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

that is amazing

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

the bird photoshopped out for media purposes?

now he's just a disgruntled waiter.

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

'here's your fucking pancake, boston'

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 1 February 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

All I'm saying is that Al Queda is getting a HUGE kick out of this. HUGE.

Also - what fucking legal precedent is there for prosecuting anyone on this? Littering? Vandalism, maybe?

Good Christ, people! There are like 7 thousand colleges and universities in the Boston area, and some of them are among the best in the world. Is it something in the water that made people be stupid today?

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

I feel enemies being emboldened somewhere.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

more on the culture gap, from another write-up:

"The cartoon also includes two trouble-making, 1980s-graphic-like characters called "mooninites," named Ignignokt and Err - who were pictured on the suspicious devices. They are known for making the obscene hand gesture depicted on the devices."

OK, see, there was this one video game? From the late 70s, in fact? Not that "graphic-like" makes any sense anyways, but ...

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

thanks, kingfish

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

what fucking legal precedent is there for prosecuting anyone on this?

There is legal precedent for prosecuting someone for a bomb-scare, obv., but it will certainly be interesting to see if they can prosecute someone for an unintentional bomb scare.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

Wanda Higgins, a 47-year-old Weymouth resident and a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, heard about the threat as she watched television news coverage while preparing to leave work at 4 p.m.

"I saw the bomb squad guys carrying a paper bag with their bare hands," Higgins said. "I knew it couldn't be too serious."

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

TV Network Takes Responsibility For 'Hoax Devices'

"Anytime you get a report of a suspicious device, it is always a concern," U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Scott Carr said. "We went ahead and shut down the waterways so we could clear the area and keep everybody safe."

"Our device was not an active device. We are still treating the area as a crime scene. There were no injuries. Everyone was evacuated properly, and everyone now back to their locations," Tufts New England Medical Center's Brooke Hynes said.

― seriously? (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

This country is NUTS.

Less LED viral marketing, more miniature flags on cars in car dealerships!

― King Boy Pato (patog27), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

A visibly angry Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said he would ask the Federal Communications Commission to yank TBS’s broadcasting license for what he called ‘‘an outrageous act to gain publicity for their product.’’
The officials said the campaign was especially reckless given Boston’s sensitivity to terrorism threats, after planes that left Logan Airport on Sept. 11, 2001, were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center.
In a statement, Menino said: ‘‘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.’’
But others said they realized it was not dangerous.
April James, 32, said she saw one of the devices in a sandy area under the Longfellow Bridge about three weeks ago.
‘‘I kicked it first, then I picked it up,’’ said James, a hairdresser who says she walks and jogs over the bridge nearly everyday.
‘‘It looked like a bomb. I picked it up, pulled the tape off it, and there were batteries, two on the top and three on the bottom.’’
James said she was not frightened by the device, which she said she returned to its original spot, near the sidewalk in front of the bridge, before continuing with her walk.
‘‘I should have moved it, put it in a bin’’ James said, while looking down from the Longfellow Bridge in the area police had gathered to detonate the bomb just minutes earlier.
Bryan Richards, 34, said the prank was a tasteless joke.
‘‘This city’s too beautiful to blow up,’’ Richards said.

‘‘It’s not funny when someone threatens other people’s lives and when the police mobilize, I get upset.’’

They've also arrested the local guy who was hired by Turner's ad agency to put up the signs. Only in Boston.

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

The media seem to have already taken the line that the devices were SUPPOSED to look like bombs -- in fact the article immediately above refers to one as a "bomb"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

"hoax device"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, spot the filler:

By Maria Cramer and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff

The man who sent city and State Police rushing to defuse what they believed were explosive devices around the Boston region was arrested tonight.

Attorney General Martha Coakley scheduled a 9 p.m. press conference to announce the arrrest of Peter Berdovsky, an Arlington artist.

On his personal website, he posted pictures of a small group installing the figures -- little square-shaped men frowning and making an obscene gesture -- on the exterior wall of a hospital, on the awning of a Cambridge bar, at an Urban Outfitters, and a bridge.

On another website, he describes himself as adroit at painting, animation, video and sound design, sculpting and installation art.

Berdvosky's lengthy resume boasts a 2005 bachelor's degree "completed with distinction" at the Massachusetts College of Arts, his second place finish at the 2004 Massachusetts College of Art All School Show, and a merit scholarship he received from MassArt in 2000.

On his website, he also lists several authors who have inspired him, including Douglas Adams and Leo Tolstoy, and included passages that moved him. One sentence from Tolstoy's "Confession" was underlined:

"It became clear to me that art is an ornamentation of life, something that lures us into life. But life had lost its charm for me so how was I to charm others?"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/simonquilty/ATHFdevice.jpg

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could ban the use of "suspicious" as a modifier of anything other than a person who feels suspicion of something.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

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

Photos of the signs being installed around Boston. Not even the Stata Center and Do Re Mi escaped the Mooninite threat.

(Boston people may know this dude as one of the old Eventworks bookers, FWIW; he set up that Lightning Bolt show at the Mass Art iron pour a few years ago.)

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

that guy!

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

The man who sent city and State Police rushing to defuse what they believed were explosive devices around the Boston region was arrested tonight.

This is the guy who put the signs up right? He didn't also call in the bomb threat did he? The idiot who did that is the one who should be arrested. God this is making my blood boil.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://a417.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/45/l_3cc65a83ca978cb452fec87c53b9dd20.jpg

― literalisp (literalisp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

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

i bought good records once at that mojo music! sorry, that's all i have to add.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:32 (eighteen years ago)

"The threat level has been raised to 'moderately funny when stoned'"

but seriously, i walked by 2 to 3 of these every day for as long as they were up, never even saw them.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

this is hilarious/i despair.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

i always felt proud to grow up in a city that elected the nation's first retarded mayor - but this is just too much.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

How dumb do you have to be to mistake a lite-brite for a bomb? SRSLY.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Stop blaming the cops. It had loose wires and an electronic circuit board with some components that were are consistent with an improvised explosive device.

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

how many things have circuit boards and wires? it was clearly an led sign.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

BREAKING NEWS: Radio Shack raided by local, federal law enforcement on suspicion of manufacturing and distributing terrorist devices.

"You can find all sorts of dangerous stuff here... integrated circuits, wires, and light emitting diodes, among dozen of other low-quality electronic components. The possibilities for mayhem are endless!"

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

how dumb are people

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jerrydouglas.com/gallery2/tn_Jumbotron.jpg
BREAKING NEWS GIANT BOMB FOUND IN OUTFIELD OF FENWAY PARK

― muck fountain (Brian Miller), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

After countless nights of experimenting, Equality 7-2521 succeeds in harnessing the power of electricity to re-invent the electric light. It is light in a rudimentary form: A box of glass that glows when its wires are connected. This power can be harnessed to benefit society. But how is he to convince others of this great new boon?

He knows many will fear his discovery; worse, the authorities will be enraged at his transgression, at his daring to think and work alone. He believes the Scholars are the only ones who will understand and recognize the merit of his invention. When the World Council of Scholars convenes in his city, he will present to them, as his gift, the “glass box with the power of the sky.” The Scholars will explain the value of the invention to the Council of Vocations, and it will reassign Equality 7-2521 to the Home of the Scholars.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I loved the way the NPR newscasts, as of 6-7 pm yesterday, refused to name the Cartoon Network, "Aqua Teen" or give anything but a vague Pravda-like descrip of what actually happened.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Bryan Richards, 34, said the prank was a tasteless joke.
‘‘This city’s too beautiful to blow up,’’ Richards said.

Yet too stupid to live... ;_;

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/athf/movie/index.html

This is how dumb people are.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Morbius, I was listening to WBUR, the Boston NPR news affiliate, and they were definitely all over those details.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_032085203.html

King County sheriff's Sergeant John Urquhart said to Seattle-area authorities, the devices were (quote) "obviously not suspicious."

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://i.biblio.com/b/960m/27715960-0-m.jpg

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

There's an editorial in the DFP (school newspaper) today lamenting how the other 9 city's police chiefs will have to find THEIR boxes, since they can't assume they are harmless.

UH.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, local radio says these things are in Portland, too, so I figure they have like 8-12 hours before local geeks grab them as momentos.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Still, thank God for our Nation In Fear.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070201/capt.ny10702010523.suspicious_devices_ny107.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20070201/capt.27fe8918ddcd62d9fbb024aac9174ab3.jpeg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

"devices"

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

WTF IS GOING ON HERE. It's like no one wants to acknowledge that these are NOT ACTUALLY BOMBS, and go on talking about them like they ARE.

Well, nevermind. I have a pretty good guess what's going on here. It's not pretty, though.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

So what other cities are these in (besides Portland)? If DC and/or NYC are among those cities, I will ~~laugh~~ ~~cry~~ laugh oh so much harder.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

The lede of that DFP article is comedy gold:

When Mastercard created a television commercial using footage of Neil Armstrong swinging a golf club after landing on the Earth's lunar body, the company had a tasteful and successful advertisement using a moon in night.

Turner Broadcasting Company had a little more trouble when incorporating a "Mooninite" into its marketing campaign.

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Turner Broadcasting said the devices had been placed for two to three weeks in ten cities: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Best free publicity since Kazakhstan banned Borat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

OMG THERE ARE DEVICES ON MY DESK HOLY SHIT CALL BOSTON

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh where are the ny ones i want!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Is there any real possibility that Adult Swim or Cartoon Network might feel some repercussions from this? If Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends gets cancelled because of this, I can't guarantee my son will grow up having much respect for humanity (which is probably appropriate).

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I know one of the articles had people calling for Turner's broadcasting license to be pulled, but that seems... unlikely, to say the least.

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

oh right, that would be this:

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed, although mistaking these "devices" for something sinister also seems "unlikely, to say the least". I basically have no idea what my fellow Americans are capable of anymore.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Best free publicity since Kazakhstan banned Borat.

I hope so, so it won't all be bad, but I'm still gritting my teeth at the fact that the media are unanimous in their decisions to report this like it's a story about terrorism, because "dumbshits get hysterical over nothing" is not a headline.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

More devices found in Boston:
http://www.a2gov.org/PublicServices/SystemsPlanning/Energy/images/LEDPed.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still gritting my teeth at the fact that the media are unanimous in their decisions to report this like it's a story about terrorism

The stupidity is self-evident, though. If anything I was mostly entertained by watching the right-wing sites oh "OMG WE'RE GOING TO DIE oh wait never mind (suspicious silence)" over a few hours.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but they're charging people with crimes. And there are endless quotes about how angry politician x is about how irresponsible the ads are, because they are sooooo suspicious.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

And you're surprised by that how?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Men Accused of Host Plead Not Guilty

Love this picture of them in court:

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/02/01/1170348102_5062.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Woah. Hoax.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

god i hope they're convicted of something. anything.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Matos needs to interview the dude on the right for his EMP paper.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

What's his EMP paper on? I think I've seen that dude around

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

This just proves that Boston hates fun. I've been saying this for years!

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

We're a suspect device if we do what we're told
But a suspect device can score an own goal
I'm a suspect device the Army can't defuse
You're a suspect device they know they can't refuse
We're gonna blow up in their face

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

This just proves that Boston hates fun.

OTM

(as if it needed proving)

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

What's his EMP paper on?

College students who have/had Bob Marley posters on their wall. (I'm serious.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

plz to create "I HAS A DEVICE" image macro

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94511107@N00/?saved=1

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/376656707_b113bc35e4.jpg?v=0

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

"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."

If my laptop computer were a bomb, everyone in the library dies!!!!!

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

did anyone else see the press conference they just gave outside the courthouse? they had the podium and the mics all set up for them and they came out with their laywer and said they wanted to talk about something very serious that affects all of our lives: haircuts in the 70's. and then talked about haircuts in the 70's for several minutes, live on MSNBC. the reporters grilled them for not taking it seriously and they said "WE ARE TAKING HAIRCUTS IN THE SEVENTIES VERY SERIOUSLY, PLEASE STOP INTERRUPTING"

― ath (ath), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Meanwhile, in Baghdad...

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

they put devices up around baghdad too?

― ath (ath), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

BECAUSE OF THIS THERE ARE DINOSAURS

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

This makes me incredibly happy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=180462

Peter “Borat” Berdovsky is officially a victim now. The poor newcomer to our shores, this wannabe political “refugee,” is being persecuted by The Man, made a fall guy by Big Animation for the moronic Ted Turner terror stunt.

He’s a refugee all right - from a Beavis and Butthead episode. This nerd is the full slacker package - Mass. College of Art, a goatee, stringy hair, a self-described “artist” with an avant-garde rock band. The only fact that’s out of place is that he actually has his own place, but then, his mother is still in Europe (a long commute) and we’ll add a few points back to his overall slacker score for the fact that he lives in a “loft.”

So they were out there this morning at the Charlestown District Court, Borat Berdovsky’s fellow “artists,” the synonym for which is “unemployed.” The artists were protesting his incarceration, and holding signs saying “Never Forget.”

Dude, that’s easy for you to say. Never forget? You haven’t had any of this weed, man. It’s, like, totally. Uh, I lost my train of thought.

That’s one of the things about this moronic cartoon show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It’s only 15 minutes long, but if you’ve done a couple of bones, man, it seems like an hour. The “artists” are saying that the cops and the reporters are hopelessly lame because they don’t get off on a show in which one of the main characters is named “Meatwad.”

Dude, we’ve got, like, jobs. And kids.

“Anyone under the age of 35,” said one of the protestors, who was somehow able to get a day off from work, “knew this was a joke the minute they saw it.”

Yeah, anyone under the age of 35 who still lives at home with Mom, wears a baseball cap backwards and is saving money for a new tattoo.

Borat Berdovsky is from Belorusa and now lives in Arlington, which was once a working-class town. But it has long since been now transformed by Cambridge potheads into another People’s Republic, represented in the legislature by the likes of Jim Marzilli. Needless to say, the Arlington moonbats are falling into line behind legal alien Borat.

Howie Carr, everybody!

― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Some more details:

Surrounded by reporters, Berdovsky stroked his lengthy dreadlocks and delivered a discourse on haircut styles in the 1970s, Afros, and the Beatles' hair styles.

"We are only taking questions on hair," he said.

The men's lawyer, Michael L. Rich, stood awkwardly by their side.

"He's a performance artist," said Rich. "If you don't like what you are seeing here, why don't you leave them alone."

The two criminal defendents alternately smiled and made ironic grimaces. "I'm quite enjoying this," said Berdovsky.

After a few minutes, clearly frustrated reporters walked away and the two men left.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

kudos

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

kudos http://www.myspace.com/zebbler

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

omg youtube plz

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

This story sez their lawyer and Berdovsky were roommates for a decade. Handy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I do appreciate this:

Judge Paul K. Leary seemed skeptical of the state's case, telling Grossman that the law requires that people must intend to create a panic to be charged with placing hoax devices. This case, the judge said, seemed to involve two men who relatives say were paid to place unorthodox advertisements throughout the city.

The question of intent was a legal issue for another hearing, Grossman said.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome power!

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

I LOOK FWD TO THE UPCOMING LAW AND ORDER EPISODE

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

This whole thing is embarrassing for the people running Boston, which of course just makes me happier.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

FWIW the Boston Herald is toilet paper. Anyone read anything in the GLOB

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://digitalderek.typepad.com/photos/2006_marthon__monday/28_citgo.jpg
NOOKULAR TERROR!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

jimmy mod otm!

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

And now millions of people who have never heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force will tune in. Excellent work, Boston.

The Globe quoted a blogger who said "Repeat after me, authorities. L-E-D. Not I-E-D. Get it?"

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

damn these criminal defendants!

seriously, there is no such thing as bad publicity, just as long as they spell your name right.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

citgo is hugo chavez's bitch.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

That's M-E-A-T-W-A-D, that's right, no space...

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

AHAHAHA SO THAT'S WHY THEY WANT TO GET RID OF THE CITGO SIGN.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

No one will be able to find BU if they get rid of it.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

especially not the drunk ugrads who need to go home. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

they want to do away w/it? thats bonkerz.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

FOX has video of the q&a press conference: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249241,00.html#

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

yeah they were talking about replacing it with a giant american flag with a crying bald eagle or some shit, seriously. xxpost

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK BOSTON (and I hate ATHF!)

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

ATHF is forgiven all for ensuring that Schoolly D spends his golden years comfortably.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

all the same i would love to see those two morons sent to walpole to spend a week in the general population.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

OH MY GOD I AM DYING

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

i just dont know what to say.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

re: BU, as a recent alum I want desperately to make a joke but can't quite come up with the right one.

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

walpole is scary! i growed up thar.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/citgo.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

in the prison??!?!?!? i only ever passed by on my way down to foxboro.

xpost.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

america, u so crazy, and this thread rules

el jeffe bonanza's posts to this thread are amongst the funniest I've ever seen!

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, our culture is so fucked and fed by media for fear that we deserve what we get.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to have to have a word with kevin about all this hippie hate. I mean, they're right to laugh and be smug. It's a farce!

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/citgo2.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

yeah kevin why u hate those guys so bad?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

For real! I probably wouldn't hang out with them on Friday nights or anything, but I think the way they're pushing the eager media's buttons is pretty hilarious.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

i mean it is kinda in poor taste to have a hairstyle based press conference when you have the worst one in the world, but still.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

STOP CALLING IT A DEVICE you stupid talking head fucks. An LED and a battery is not a "device", it's a fucking "blinking light."

But yeah, the reason why nobody called 9-1-1 for weeks was cuz they actually recognized the cartoon characters.

Also, somebody at the Boston Globe musta realized how much web hits they were getting, and put in a free-reg wall.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

"We're not going to let this go without looking at the further roots of how this happened to cause the panic in this city," [Attorney General Martha] Coakley said.

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think this op-ed has been posted yet:

Marketing gambit exposes a wide generation gap

Still, Orson Welles would be proud.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

20-somethings raised on hip ads for Snapple

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

two more good'uns:

-Zach at ToonZone

The comments of Shepard Smith and his co-workers at News Corp provide a prime example of the media’s hand in this story. Many of the Fox News interviews were with citizens who were “distraught” over the Aqua Teen advertisements. Smith explained the plot of the show, portraying it as something appalling. Now I understand that the media has the right to their opinions on a show like Aqua Teen, but I think that Fox’s comments in particular only aggravated the situation. What most newscasters should have at least commented on is that this investigation was a result of pure paranoia.

-Thomas Menino is an incompetent coward:

Menino is going on TV and insisting he's going to send a 27-year old artist to jail for not breaking any law, because his police department overreacted and wasted a million dollars feeding a media frenzy and terrorizing the population of his own city. That's a cowardly act of self-preservation, and were he not threatening the life of an innocent young man it would be laughable.

http://www.xoverboard.com/images/freepeter.gif

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Boston was one of 10 cities around the nation where the guerilla ads appeared, but nowhere else did they cause security concerns and set a city on edge.

EXPOSES WIDE COGNITIVE GAP LOL PWND

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Marketing gambit exposes a wide generation gap
A graphic from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website showed the Err character from 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' that was depicted on some of the devices found yesterday. A graphic from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website showed the Err character from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" that was depicted on some of the devices found yesterday.

By Michael Levenson and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | February 1, 2007

Todd Vanderlin, a 22-year-old design student, had just left Lucky's lounge in South Boston two weeks ago when he spotted what looked like an alien glowing on the side of a bridge. He pulled out his digital camera, photographed the illuminated plastic figure, and posted the images on his blog.
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"I knew it was art, and I knew it was part of the Adult Swim ads, because I saw a billboard for the same thing," said Vanderlin, referring to a series of cartoons on cable television. "I see it in New York all the time."

But yesterday, a subway worker less attuned to the latest in underground marketing techniques called the police after spotting one of the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" cartoon characters on an overpass in Charlestown. The terrorism scare that followed touched off a massive response from police. When it was discovered that the electronic boards were only ads for a cartoon, serious condemnation flowed from Washington and Boston.

The episode exposed a wide generational gulf between government officials who reacted as if the ads might be bombs and 20-somethings raised on hip ads for Snapple, Apple, and Google who instantly recognized the images for what they were: a viral marketing campaign.

Among many in the young generation, reaction to the scare was smirking. "Repeat after me, authorities. L-E-D. Not I-E-D. Get it?" one 29-year-old blogger from Malden wrote on his website, contrasting light emitting diodes with improvised explosive devices.
Complete coverage of the bomb scare

Elected officials said there is no room for battery-powered contraptions on bridges and overpasses in a post Sept. 11 world.

"Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," said US Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Malden. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."

The ads were the latest incarnation of viral marketing, an advertising technique that is exploding in popularity as a way to reach younger consumers inured to the effects of traditional commercials. Like viruses, the ads are intended to spread on their own, creating word-of-mouth buzz by cropping up in unexpected places outdoors and on the Internet.

The company behind the ads for "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" was New York-based Interference Inc., whose chief executive officer, Sam Travis Ewen, was recently named one of Brandweek Magazine's Guerrilla Marketers of the Year. Ewen, who is in his 30s, has also put people on subways to brag about financial advisers and sent models into bars to sit with packs of cigarettes, waiting for someone to ask for a smoke.

Jamie Tedford -- senior vice president of media and marketing innovations at Arnold Worldwide, a Boston-based ad agency -- said there have been recent marketing campaigns that backfired. He cited Wal-Mart's decision to post a blog about a fictitious couple driving cross-country to different Wal-Mart stores. The company did not disclose that it had created the blog, angering some buyers.

But Tedford said he could not recall a recent marketing campaign involving objects that were mistaken for bombs or any campaign that had that caused a citywide panic.

"You'd almost have to go back to 'War of the Worlds,' " he said, referring to the famous 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles. "We would all agree that this has crossed a line."

Turner Broadcasting System Inc., which broadcasts "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" on its Cartoon Network, could have saved itself the controversy by warning local authorities this was a marketing campaign, Tedford said.

Boston was one of 10 cities around the nation where the guerilla ads appeared, but nowhere else did they cause security concerns and set a city on edge.

"The hardcore watchers of that show would know it's a character, but the majority of people in these cities do not know that," Tedford said. "Turner has failed on the disclosure issue."

Turner executives said they did not forewarn local authorities, because they never imagined the campaign would cause alarm. "It was not our intent to do anything but get attention for a television series, period," Phil Kent, chairman and chief executive of Turner, said in an interview last evening.

That was apparent to many young consumers. After Vanderlin posted the images on his blog, Ewen shot him an e-mail: "I am glad you got one of the adult swim signs; there are others out there as well so keep looking up," Ewen wrote. He added he hoped people would take them as souvenirs.

Vanderlin, a student at Parson School of Design in New York City, said he was stunned to see police bomb squads swoop in and remove the characters.

"It's so not threatening -- it's a Lite-Brite," he said, referring to a popular children's game. "I don't understand how they could be terrified. I would understand if it was a bunch of circuits blinking but it wasn't. . . . It was clearly a design."

Mac Daniel and Suzanne Smalley of the Globe staff contributed to this report.

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

yeah kevin why u hate those guys so bad?

my douchebag alert has a hair trigger. i mean sure, it's rediculous that the authroities thought these things were "bomblike devices" but that doesn't change that fact that i have nothing against douchebag crusties being put in jail for being douchebag crusties.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

my douchebag alert has a hair trigger.

puns puns lolz

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

They were bizness hippies

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

yeah real crusties aren't out doing marketing, duuude

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

i have nothing against douchebag crusties being put in jail for being douchebag crusties.

Jawohl!

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

"real crusties" are usually known as "homeless guys".

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

i really hope these dudes don't go to jail.

hey fluffy bear/jhoshea, plz photoshop a crying mooninite "never forget" and 1/31/07, thanks

― grbchv! (skowly), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

CNN coverage

Coakley and Menino did not rule out the possibility of criminal charges, or a civil suit to recoup what they say is the hundreds of thousands of dollars the city spent to respond to the bomb scares.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo said the legal department is sending Turner a letter asking the company to reimburse the city for all costs incurred during the hoax, but the authority had no plans to unilaterally file a lawsuit.

hahaha, pay us for our fuck-up, bitch

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

i hope whoever is adding stuff to the NEVER FORGET collage is keeping it as a psd and not making it reencode as a jpeg over and over

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Turner should send the MBTA complimentary ATHF season sets...

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

:-/

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

is this a fuck up though? if there HAD been bombs in them wouldn't the authorities be excoriated for not noticing these devices planted around critical parts of the city's infrastructure?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, pay us for our fuck-up, bitch

The Ministry of Information strikes again.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

is this a fuck up though? if there HAD been bombs in them wouldn't the authorities be excoriated for not noticing these devices planted around critical parts of the city's infrastructure?

chicago pollyanna?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to Kevin: If they didn't have the good sense to check these out and see that they were harmless BEFORE they caused a citywide panic, then yeah, it's a pretty big fuck-up.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

It's not a fuck up for them to investigate them, really. It IS a fuck up to turn it into some kind of state of emergency panic room, and for the reaction the asshole mayor and police chief and giving right now.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

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

Asked whether Massachusetts authorities have the jurisdiction to arrest people out of state, Coakley said she believed they would if the offenses took place in Massachusetts. Turner Broadcasting's headquarters is in Atlanta.

*head explodes*

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that is soooo not gonna happen

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

"not noticing"?? they were on the street for weeks!! so they fucked up coming and going, already.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

is this a fuck up though? if there HAD been bombs in them wouldn't the authorities be excoriated for not noticing these devices planted around critical parts of the city's infrastructure?

THEY DIDN'T NOTICE THEM FOR WEEKS

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

just asking a question. i'm just glad to know that light bright cover = no possible way there could be explosives inside.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.richwooders.com/appalachian/wildlife/copyright_bird/whatacountry.jpg

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

If I was going to hide explosives in something, maybe it wouldn't be best to be SUPER ATTENTION DRAWING

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

When all you have to do is look at the thing - with eyes - before scarring the shit out of everyone? Yes = fuck up.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

al-qaeda is not known for literally giving us the middle finger

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to Kevin: If they didn't have the good sense to check these out and see that they were harmless BEFORE they caused a citywide panic, then yeah, it's a pretty big fuck-up.

uhm, kenan, do you know how they "check out" potential explosives? like when they're under bridges or in subway tunnels? they don't let traffic continue along in case, y'know, they ARE explosives and then, y'know... explode.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

When all you have to do is look at the thing - with eyes - before scarring the shit out of everyone? Yes = fuck up.

you have xray vision? good job.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.n8w.com/newweb/images/cartoon-network-2-l.gif

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Most cities manage to put up road blocks or shut down a subway station without alerting Fox News, or quite frankly ever even informing the commuting public WTF was going on. It's quite obvious that they're raising a much, much bigger fuss than is warranted--this is what the LOL factor is here, their response to it, not the fact that they went and checked the damn thing out.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think Boston was jealous of real cities and was all SHIT TERRORISTS CARE ABOUT US... WE'VE FINALLY ARRIVED!!!

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

kevin, jeez. I think it would take stopping traffic for all of ten minutes to see that these things are lights. To hear the mayor talk, they pretty much declared martial law AL IT WAS THE AD'S FAULT BECAUSE IT WAS SO BOMB-Y LOOKING, which it isn't, and even if it was...

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,090,000 for new york bomb scare. (0.14 seconds)

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

city politicians with no sense of embarrassment, self-criticism, or perspective shocker.

i wrote a letter to the globe, their editorial is ridiculous

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

guys, kevin's just stoked for the madness.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think Boston was jealous of real cities and was all SHIT TERRORISTS CARE ABOUT US... WE'VE FINALLY ARRIVED!!!

Considering the 9/11 hijackers flew out of Boston they're probably all set on the terrorism quota...

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 166,000 for boston bomb scare -jan -january. (0.41 seconds)

DORKS

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

If I had a dollar for every time the DC Metro was temporarily shut down thanks to a "suspicious package" or "suspicious device," I would have about $25,000 right now. It's like once or twice a week, at least. And that's not even counting the inexplicable "OK it's just not going to work at all, and we're just going to tell you it's a delay and you should all deal with it" shut downs! Yet, I never see Geraldo Rivera reporting on it and hyping it. ;_;

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

You'd be homicidal too if you had to fly out of Logan!!!

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I understand what kevin is saying, but anything under a bridge or near a public building could be an explosive device. Obviously the city can't shut down every time somebody locates an electronic device or a box near a roadway. These guys clearly fucked up and there is no way the two douchebags should go to jail, or Turner should lose in court in a lawsuit by the city, if it comes to that.

Also, please note that the bomb squad and state police were handling the devices with bare or gloved hands and that in some of the videos they were removing them without checking them closely, so the experts didn't really seem to think these were bombs, at least not after the original was removed.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.homestead.com/flowstate/files/emperor.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

You all heard about the Turner Broadcasting promo for Aqua Teen Hunger force that went horribly wrong in Boston yesterday, prompting city-wide bomb scares and bringing roads and public transit to a standstill? Well, through the magic of the Internet you -- yes you -- can now own a piece of what will surely go down in the annals of PR as one of the worst gaffes ever, and a shining example of guerrilla marketing gone bad. One of the cartoonish, illuminated signs, which were placed throughout the city, is on auction at eBay. Current high bid: $5,000.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/010023.html

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Terrorism hoaxes are common. Two years ago, a drug addict and smuggler gave a fake tip about a terrorist incursion in Boston that led to another massive mobilization of law enforcement. In 2005, an angry deportee used a fake threat that forced officials to close a tunnel under Baltimore's harbor. Turner officials say their devices were never meant to be seen as threats. Yet they find themselves in bad company.

specious bullshit.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

you have xray vision? good job.

i fucking wish. & shoot laser.

I DO have eyes attached to 1 brain... all it takes to see - even from the pics - that those things are clearly not explosive devices.

big time xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

eBay just removed the auction. Removed the auction of a piece of advertisting. A piece of advertising that was essentially a Lite-Brite.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

xpost the more i read that paragraph the more furious i get.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

You'd be homicidal too if you had to fly out of Logan!!!

If you actually live to make it there...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/11/woman_killed_when_part_of_ceiling_falls_in_i_90_connector_tunnel/

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Aqua-Teen-Hunger-Force-Mooninite-LED-Neon-Light_W0QQitemZ320078268609QQihZ011QQcategoryZ363QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Aqua-Teen-Hunger-Force-Mooninite-Boston-Adult-Swim-LED_W0QQitemZ180081382607QQihZ008QQcategoryZ363QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/Aqua-Teen-Hunger-Force-Mooninite-Boston-Bomb_W0QQitemZ290078844123QQihZ019QQcategoryZ363QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

And as far as guerilla marketing goes - they hit gold!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

let's sell fake versions of this on ebay

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Also, there are already dozens of different t-shirts on sale. SHOCKER.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

It would be a nice gesture on the part of Adult Swim to donate one of these things to Boston's city history museum, wouldn't it?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

cafepress funds terrorism

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/terroristattack/july-dec01/safe14.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Within a few weeks, everyone between the ages of 12 and 35 is going to own a t-shirt with the Monninite character on it. The dudes who are saying this is a failed viral marketing campaign are idiots.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://72.166.46.24//archive/features/00/05/11/image/MayorMenino.gif

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

MUMBLES MENINO!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

i actually think he's a little bit retarded

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

remember when those radio douchebags said he was killed in a car accident during an april fool's joke? and he was out of town and his family couldn't get in touch with him for hours and they thought he was dead until someone from his office was able to get in touch with the family?

xpost- just a little?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

HE'S NO RAY FLYNN!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

who was no kevin 'mutheragawd!' white.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

i mean if i told you this was a photo for some adults with down syndrome support organization you probably say something like - that's one well dressed retard

http://www.microsoft.com/issues/images/2006/06-01MayorThomasMenino.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_magnetic_light_scare
remember when those radio douchebags said he was killed in a car accident during an april fool's joke? and he was out of town and his family couldn't get in touch with him for hours and they thought he was dead until someone from his office was able to get in touch with the family?

haha xpost, i just saw his wiki page and remembered that

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

If the Boston officials had come out with sheepish grins on their faces this whole thing could've been avoided. But the arrests and stern finger-wagging will keep the cool factor of this campaign humming for quite a while.

HOT TOPIC STOCK STRONG BUY

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.msfa.net/art-news/jill-and-mayor-menino.jpg
he's a productive member of society, working part time at a homemade cookie kiosk!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

This is the most typical Menino reaction ever, btw. Lots of yelling which will result in nothing. Was one of the signs in the shithole that is Downtown Crossing? 'Cause I would hope that police and counter-terrorism units left that one alone.

― call all destroyer (Sean Braudis), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2002/11-22/photos/UT0126945.jpg
Much like a cookie, I believe the Yankees dynasty will soon crumble, and the results will be delicious for Red Sox fans.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

i take it back he's a genius

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

or drunk.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

a slight modification:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/376757860_7ac6a6be70.jpg?v=0

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/kallmann/front.jpg
OMG TERRAH @ GOVRMENT CENTAH!!!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/333/foxbostonxp5.jpg

Naturally, Fox News is on top of things factually.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's too bad this incident didn't somehow involve Dr. Rockso.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

re: BU, as a recent alum I want desperately to make a joke but can't quite come up with the right one.
-- call all destroyer (braudimusprim...) (webmail), February 1st, 2007 1:47 PM. (Sean Braudis) (later) (link)

Oh, don't worry, BUPD is making all the jokes for us.

"We don't think the university was in any danger."

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha fox news is still pissed at stephen colbert.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

HAHAHA what'd they say?

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait, time to check on the TownHall reaction to this

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hair-oriented press conference: http://wbztv.com/video/?cid=9&id=28369@wbz.dayport.com

― schwantz (schwantz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I love it when charges are filed with no case in sight.
Because we all know there aren't enough real cases in the system. /sarcasm

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Spraying Bacteria All Over You...AGAIN!! (The GZeus), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, nothing yet

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

omg haircut press conference = teh awesome

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Malkin: Jason Smith e-mails: "Simultaneously placed at various strategic locations. I wonder if someone is sitting back and simply studying the emergency response protocol and timing... trying to identify weak spots and gaps to exploit for a real attack?"

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

If so, they'd better include some sort of fudge-factor constant, because it takes a lot longer to find Mooninites.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Ratty hair dude is from Belarus. OK, so what? Why does the press keep ominously intoning this fact, like he's some Beslan-school-style terrorist? Gah.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

The cartoon airs as part of the Adult Swim late-night block of programs on the Cartoon Network. It features characters called "mooninites," who were pictured on the found devices. A feature length film based on the cartoon is scheduled to be released late next month.

Perfect.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455326/

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

y'know honestly part of me would LOVE to have advertising legally classified as terrorism

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that's pretty stupid

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

You edgy adbuster you.
xpost

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

moonbatinites

― Michelle Malkin snatch goblin (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Credited cast:
Dana Snyder .... Master Shake (voice)
Dave Willis .... Meatwad/Carl Brutananadilewski/Ignignokt (voice)
Carey Means .... Frylock (voice)

Andy Merrill .... Oglethorpe (voice)
Matt Maiellaro .... Err (voice)
Chris Ward .... MC Pee Pants (voice)
Neil Peart
C. Martin Croker .... Dr. Weird/Steve (voice)
Schooly-D .... (voice)
Larry Blackmon

!!!!!!!

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone notice Neil Peart's name in the ATHF listing at imdb? I only catch the show on occasion, but is he a regular voiceover provider? ba-dum-tch!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Wait WHAT?
LARRY BLACKMON!!??? What could he have been?

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Spraying Bacteria All Over You...AGAIN!! (The GZeus), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe there are new characters in the movie. New characters wearing a red codpiece.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

have you guys in firefox noticed the animated FAVICON on townhall.com?

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

oh most classy. yes, i need the logo and scrolling text to remind me what it refers to.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

the times article on this refers to the two dudes as "buffoons"

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

not even smoothed text. blech.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha the first three FoxNews 25 viewers who wrote in re: their "Who do you think should be held responsible for this mess?" said, "THE DUMBASSES RUNNING THE CITY OF BOSTON"

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

I like how the media(who is largely responsible for the mess) is being completely non-objective and editorial.
Reminds me why I don't watch the news.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Spraying Bacteria All Over You...AGAIN!! (The GZeus), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.apeshitmedia.com/lj/2007-02-01-bomb.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Reminds me why I don't watch the news.

because you're watching japanese tv?

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i could watch japanese tv. Having a brief FCI(i think) feed when I had cable was great.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I just hate the news because it's not informative on anything of value, totally opinionated, and negative.

This catastrphe is a perfect example.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Spraying Bacteria All Over You...AGAIN!! (The GZeus), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2007/02/war-on-terror-osis-nation-loses-sense.html

Actually, I just hate the news because it's not informative on anything of value, totally opinionated, and negative.

Like your posts on ILX?

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.coolknobsandpulls.com/images/O.jpg http://www.ci.alameda.ca.us/arpd/images/computer_snapping_finger250.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, not all my posts are negative.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Spraying Bacteria All Over You...AGAIN!! (The GZeus), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

Charles Gibson to report on "EXPLOSION OF GUERILLA MARKETING" and "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT BACKFIRES"

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

Whoops that is now "BACKFIRES BIG TIME"

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

when else has it backfired?

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Well if this whole thing leads to the demise of the "street team", maybe it won't have been entirely unworthwhile.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, this is the most astonishing thing I've ever seen.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

Shepherd Fairy = so jealous right now.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently New England Cable news is reporting that they had in fact secured permits. Haven't seen this corroborated anywhere yet, but if so...

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

OMG if they did, that will knock this up another hilarious notch.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

especially in light of press conference about 70's hairstyles and not about secured permits.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 2 February 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.speakeasy.org/~das_prompt/roadsidebomb.jpg

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-D0F4Q9yk

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

never link to those douchebags ever again

― grbchv! (skowly), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

I've always wondered, what's that song Ignigknot and Err are singing at the end there?

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I found those jackasses funny.
Sometimes it's ok to laugh at AND with jackasses at the same time.
I'm a jackass about 50% of the time.
And yes, the majority of non-jackass time is off the net.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I found those jackasses funny.
Sometimes it's ok to laugh at AND with jackasses at the same time.

this is so, so true

I laughed at the "wait, how long? what? wait, what? what the fuck?!?" dude, because I am always game for a good "what the fuck?!?", and he delivered it pretty well.

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

That's my favorite part.
"FUCK SHIT FUCKING SHIT!"
ALWAYS gets me. Goes back to Mr Bungle's second album.

"It's aaall oooon tape!"
"Well, in that case-*banging on drums, random instrument noises*"
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT! FUCK. SHIT. FUCKIN' SHIT!"

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

never link to those douchebags ever again

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, watched that earlier today. Those guys suck.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:00 (eighteen years ago)

Enh. Standard undergrad/post-grad sketch comedy geeks. Their tv clips were good, since i hadn't seen them yet.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=180587

damn "Goof-off"s

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone posted this yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4

that's actually pretty damn funy.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

But but but Superfiction.

The music is a carefully crafted schizophrenic composition of chocolate, peanut butter and jam transitions floating between grinding diesel powered rock and bittersweet serene reflections of the self.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 February 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

the goofball hippie press conference is pretty funny. what goofballs!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

i'm kinda glad that i'm not their mom.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mooninites-LED-Boston-scare-Mooninite-ATHF_W0QQitemZ230086887352QQihZ013QQcategoryZ60285QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mooninites-Ignignokt-LED-Boston-Bomb-Scare_W0QQitemZ230086453528QQihZ013QQcategoryZ363QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Q: I think what your doing is great. I was wondering if you have been contacted be eBay at all? I saw a few others on here last night but now they have been removed.
Feb-01-07

A: all the boston ones were pulled off ebay and confiscated by the police. this item is getting rarer and rarer.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.backandtotheleft.com/ebay/auctions/atg/moonterrorhood01.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Heard there are "ATHF is da bomb" t-shirts now as well.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

To tell y'all the truth: I saw one of these things last night, and without the lights on it does look pretty suspicious. Ducted-taped together, it looks like what you would imagine a homemade bomb to look like. I guess the lights only come on at night.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/361613084_fb16c6be30.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/366631098_157d10b042.jpg?v=0

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

the costs of publicity, i guess

BOSTON (Reuters) - Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay all costs of a security scare triggered by a marketing campaign that disrupted travel in the city for nearly a full day, a spokeswoman for Mayor Thomas Menino said on Friday.

Still, if this works like Borat, they just tripled the box office take

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/02/01/us/01boston600.1.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

It would be wonderful if ATHF Colon had the biggest opening weekend. How many people are going to go and be like WTF?!?!

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

is that santorum's son?

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 20 of about 171 for boston stupid. (0.12 seconds)
http://amadeo.blog.com/repository/66682/1143848.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.tinypic.com/2w59ggj.jpg http://i9.tinypic.com/29gok93.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

"A: all the boston ones were pulled off ebay and confiscated by the police. this item is getting rarer and rarer."
What??
It's been proven to be harmless, it's a bunch of little lights, and by getting it off the streets this person did them a favor.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, so is John Travolta Psychlo there still wearing handcuffs, or what?

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

trial of teh century

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

anyone wearing a commemorative ATHF mooninite bomb scare shirt, please crack your own kneecaps, skull with an iron skillet. shit is criminally lame.

this was you last year, probably.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Today's followup from the NYT

Ad executives said where Turner went wrong was failing to identify the boxes as advertising.

“Turner did not disclose that this was a corporate message,” said Jamie Tedford of Arnold Worldwide, which is part of Havas. “It never would have been confused with a bomb if it had been disclosed that this was a corporate initiative.”

Oh, you're just no fun anymore.

In an interview in Brandweek in November, Sam Ewen, the chief of Interference, was asked if he’d ever been arrested for a stunt. Mr. Ewen said, “Luckily I have avoided arrest, mainly by dropping fictitious names of police officers from other precincts in town.”

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I know it's probably innocent enough, but I am so not clicking on a link to a jpg hosted at "c0ckhuntp1cs.c0m".

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

At work.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/377536554_16f478603a.jpg?v=0

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Half this country has lost its mind.
We're getting ready to erupt into some real 1960s protest violence. Oh wait...THAT'S ALREADY HAPPENED!!
And people wonder why I want out.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

the door's over there.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

When did that happen?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

When the McRib came back.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

HA ha a aha!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Xpost: Seattle

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/105103.jpg

BOSTON!

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ad executives said where Turner went wrong was failing to identify the boxes as advertising.

So if someone wants to place a bomb somewhere without it being detected...

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

That's quasi 60's protest violence at best!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Look out, those boobs are gonna blow!
http://www.enlighted.com/pages/nervebra.shtml

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

one of the geeky groups on campus had a habit of placing little blinky LEDs-attached to 9v batteries, stuck into clear plastic cups of jello.

such threats to the Republic can no longer be tolerated.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

placing them around campus, rather. Quite fun to watch the thursday night bar crowd stumble home and regard them w/ puzzlement, Gareth-and-public-phone stylee

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

anyone wearing a commemorative ATHF mooninite bomb scare shirt, please crack your own kneecaps, skull with an iron skillet. shit is criminally lame.

i'd like to see a news retrospective done entirely in novelty tshirts.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, people ARE beginning to protest. this is getting scary.

take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EazWtnhz4-4

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm already getting sick of mooninite-bomb-scare-meme. When do you think it will come back into vogue?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

2012

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.1115.org/archives/kilroy.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

this thing looks kind of suspicious. i know i'm not pressing that button:

http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/walk_arrow_button.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Killroy is, was, and always will be here.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://discardedlies.com/images/RIP%20amber%20alert.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder what the next DengerDoom album will shape up to be.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

And in related news, the LA Times and Paramount face suit as well:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-newsracks1feb01,1,3499979.story?coll=la-headlines-california

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Before Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible III" exploded last May across movie screens, its promotional campaign bombed on Los Angeles newsstands.

That's the view of federal officials who say they intend to sue the Los Angeles Times and Paramount Pictures Corp. over the April 28 placement in news racks of digital devices that played the familiar "Mission: Impossible" theme song when the racks' doors were opened.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Several newspaper buyers thought the music players were bombs and reported them to law enforcement. The Los Angeles County sheriff's arson squad blew up one Times news rack near the intersection of Sand Canyon and Soledad Canyon roads in Santa Clarita as a precaution.

OK, how perfect is that? This message...

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Wow.
Never going to Boston, was already never planning on going to LA, but now I'm planning on never going.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

You have heard that in Japan there are mistaken bomb threats EVERY DAY, right?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

and new york

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

and in your dreamcast

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Do they involve FAMOUS SONGS COMING OUT OF NEWSPAPER DISPENSERS??
"Oh my god! There was a bomb in the opening of that show and the tapes self-destructed!! THIS WILL SELF DESTRUCT AS WELL!!!"
Even if you don't know what the show is, IT'S A MUSIC BOX!!!

FUUUCK!!! Yeah, people are retarded all over, but overall everyone I know who's been there says I should be living in Japan.
I figure even if there were just as many idiots, as many retardo events; I'd have a better chance at a career doing what I love(teaching English) , healthy food, and few to no christian zealots in and around my life.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jal.co.jp/en/

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, just shut up and go to Japan.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

and buy me a Mazinger Z action figure, w/ rocket punch

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Hey guys, don't not go to Boston because of this, they need meat.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

MANGINA Z

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

SHOW GUN

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

MACROSSWORD

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/377701207_5042b86571.jpg?v=0

Sorry. Can't stop.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

jesus.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Turner-to-pay-costs-of-Boston-scare/2007/02/03/1169919564803.html

― literalisp (literalisp), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ya - I'm not even close to sick of the meme yet!

Perhaps I've been doing too much "work".

xpoast

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry. Can't stop.

By all means keep 'em coming!

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Adult Swim apologizes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM70Iu2IhIk

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

was that actually sincere??? mind blown!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Needed more funky music to drive the point home.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Shit, which network is gonna pay for the Iraq war?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

that is fucking lame.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

xpost:
Bush's 'Intelligence' Network.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

real-time right-wing blogging during the "event":

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776926/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

"Sometimes I feel like the few of us here are the last sane people in the country."

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hate to see this happen, but could it be the libs are reaping what they sowed?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

I skimmed most of that.
There were no sentences.
Sentences require complete thoughts.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

FB FOUND ONE!!

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

"I see "Adult Swim" on my cable but have avoided going onto that channel because I thought it was porn. So much for me being "hip" and "with it"."

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

This person should drink more.
Drink until they can't type.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

"I see "Adult Swim" on my cable but have avoided going onto that channel because I thought it was porn. So much for me being "hip" and "with it"."
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), February 2nd, 2007 10:45 PM.

"Maybe" you should be less "scared" of "porn," dude.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

"Welcome to John Kerry's America"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

I want to read that as your response to Mr. Que.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Show some sensitivity. Don't you know his brother died in a porn accident?

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

His brother died in Crash?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

(Cronenberg)

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://inxs.com.ar/images/fotos/michael_1.jpg

Never forget.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

"Do Islamists use the bird sign? Don't think I've ever seen one flip somebody off."

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

I think the "OK" sign is the Muslism middle finger

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

A crazy theory out of the blue: Iran sending a warning?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/361613084_fb16c6be30.jpg?v=0

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

how deeply have the Islamoterrorists infiltrated the Cartoon Network???

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

lets hope a good witchhunt comes from this

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

Afghanistani Haze

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.entertainmentearth.com/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CAML129GPlg.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

COMMIE BOMBERS!!!

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://media2.salemwebnetwork.com/Townhall/Car/b/holb070203.jpg

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

this was clearly the work of the monarch.

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9577/untitled12lp5ki8.gif

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, let's try that again.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9577/untitled12lp5ki8.gif

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

So
I had some free time at work today:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/377985135_349f4e8417.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/377985134_1068e2690e.jpg?v=0

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

"NO ONE SET YOU UP THE BOMB"

I love how Boston will be seen as a mecca for morons(true or not) throughout the next generation.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

You mean will CONTINUE to be a mecca for morons...

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dyewell.com/saveboston/

― J (Jay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

18. I unlocked the Beatle haircut!

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

To: tiredoflaundry
It's not a prank post 9/11, it's terrorism with or without an actual bomb.

142 posted on 01/31/2007 1:00:50 PM PST by tioga
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bwahahahahaha

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Not even a prank.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

To: Jrabbit
Little cartoon characters are not necessarily harmless. I remember Bert of the Muppets being associated with Al Quaeda.
Let's see, I want to publicize my store, so I plant my store logo in fake bombs??
Whose idea was this?

302 posted on 01/31/2007 2:02:43 PM PST by Miss Marple (Prayers for Jemian's son,: Lord, please keep him safe and bring him home .)
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oh god oh god please tell me that this person is being serious. I WANT TO BELIEVE

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

To: happinesswithoutpeace
But what was the threat?
Are you stoned?
What would you do if there was an unknown package in your car?
Sheesh! If the children want to play, let them go back to the "panty raids" of the 1950's.
We live in very dangerous times. If I saw someone planting a "package" where I live I would kill them and worry about the consequences afterwards.

447 posted on 01/31/2007 4:54:53 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

okay, one more, and then I have to go light myself on fire:

To: Doghouse Riley
You said:

"The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that. And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote security theater that wastes money and doesn't make us any safer."
-Bruce Schneier

Sounds like you are in the wrong forum pal....See, most Freepers 'recognize' that the best defense against terrorism is to either join the US military or work like hell to defeat morons that want to lay down and accept terrorism as a 'risk we all face'!!!

Screw 'Bruce The Dove Heart'!!

IBTZ!!!

560 posted on 01/31/2007 7:24:34 PM PST by penelopesire
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― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

"We live in very dangerous times. If I saw someone planting a "package" where I live I would kill them and worry about the consequences afterwards."
FUCK YOUUUU FEDEX TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

i think those are hoax posters

― grbchv! (skowly), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

hooks posters

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

rumors now are that the FCC is looking into it.

no one of import is going to be fired, but basically it was a P.A. who hired the guerilla mktg firm.

nobody at CN is laughing this off. big people in high places are pretty upset.

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

of course, they're not actually upset. This is amazingly good pr. So they just act sorry and nothing happens.

Fucking embarrassing that all these public officials are more interested in saving face at MORE huge cost to taxpayers.

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 4 February 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

"It's this guy. Aht this guy, and this lady and this talking guy and this talking lady and the guy with the haircut, and apparantly everyone's retarded."
That line alone made those Zorbo greasies awesome to me.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://pr0n.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/b/b3/Athf911.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I was fluent in Italian because the Italian news presenter had a baffled "what the FUCK is wrong with Americans?!" expression on her face.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

Correction： ZEBRO greasies.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like TBS/marketers have to pony up $2 mil for the city of Boston's idiocy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/us/05cnd-hoax.html?hp&ex=1170738000&en=b1d9c22ed146dca0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

suppose they weren't lite-brites but BOMBS! we'd be all fucked now, wouldn't we!

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

This no longer a country where 'no harm, no foul' applies...apparantly.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

Infiltrating Islamic groups, keeping tabs on mosques, applying heightened scrutiny to Muslims in order to track the extremists among them -- we tend to find such activities distasteful, awkward, even un-American.

But if we intend to win the war the jihadists have declared against us, they are unavoidable.

― grbchv! (skowly), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

Heard on the radio that someone in boston was arrested for videotaping the removal of one of them.

he was arrested for videotaping(as in, pointing a camera at) the removal of(as in, it WAS there, being harmless, it was proven to be harmless during this process, then it was over) a light board.
He was arrested for LOOKING AT SOMETHING.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_re_us/suspicious_devices

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

i really hate how often the prase "this is what's wrong with our country" gets tossed around, but i really feel it applies here.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

there's a lot more story to the guy resigning than being reported.

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 9 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

"The stunt did not translate into much of a boost for the show. The cartoon averaged 386,000 viewers last week among its targeted audience of 18-to-24-year-olds, according to Nielsen Media Research. The previous week, the show averaged a virtually identical 380,000."
WHAT???
They DIDN'T SHOW IT THIS SUNDAY.
it was a Family Guy marathon.
Why do people like to play reporter so much?

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

there's a lot more story to the guy resigning than being reported.

well tell us, don! spill it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 9 February 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

SEX SCANDAL?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

barney_humping_wilma.jpeg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

What makes me sad about all this is my least favorite thing ever (Adult Swim and it's worst show (That I've seen anyway)) is getting hyped like it's some super...thing. It means I have to see moononites against my will.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Too bad for you.

I'm offended by the fact that the media is so damned one-sided and doing such a poor job.
90% of the 'news' on this subject is a big game of 'Telephone.'

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

you're nuts, athf is great. or at least it was.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

It's hit or miss but there a couple episodes--the Ghost of Christmas Past one, and the one where all the villains are on the moon--that made me laugh as hard as I ever have.

― max (maxreax), Friday, 9 February 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hand Banana is the bestest episode of anything ever.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

What's the one where David Cross is the angry doll?

CLASSIC

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/lonsdoggit/handbanana26.jpg

xpost, yeah that one is pretty awesome too.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Saturday, 10 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

the only thing I can say is that Adult Swim is a part of Cartoon Network, and it's tricky to promote adult fare in what amounts to a kid environment.

Let's just say that certain people who may or may not be involved with certain governmental communications agencies might consider the middle finger to be inappropriate given the channel's context.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

that's no answer! spill the dirt, weiner!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

xxxpost:

best episode ever, danzig as himself:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/wolfgang45df/GlennDanzig-AquaTeenHungerForce.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

Let's just say that certain people who may or may not be involved with certain governmental communications agencies might consider the middle finger to be inappropriate given the channel's context.

And what about the MPAA? This was also meant to advertise a movie right? That would be funny if the real repercussions from this had less to do with homeland security and more to do with appeasing the morons at the mpaa.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, grady--that one! that one fucking rules!

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

didnt he buy the house next door because the sprinkler system solely because it shot blood instead of water? and then he wouldn't hang out with the athf dudes when they wanted to?

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:46 (eighteen years ago)

that's no answer! spill the dirt, weiner!

every politician in Mass was looking for a big head to serve on a plate at the Retard Ball. Even that useless fat fuck Teddy the K was making phone calls.

I'll put it to you this way: the guy didn't resign over the non-fake bomb. read my other post above and you can figger it out.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

At this point I'm more curious as to why yu won't just say it.
Seems like all this beating around the bush is more work for everyone.
To be honest this makes me NOT want to look above.
Bit of a contrary reaction, but so is just NOT telling us.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

From the Boston Herald article: “This event caused a lot of pain and suffering in Boston,” Menino said. “This should send a message that guerrilla marketing will not be tolerated here,” he said.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Sunday, 11 February 2007 06:58 (eighteen years ago)

xpost yeah and the robot is like "that guy is SO weird." plus it makes sense 'cause DANZIG is from NJ like the rest of aqua teen

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 11 February 2007 07:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2007/02/best_sign_at_rsa.html

― oink am0n (ex machina), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone over 40 somehow thinks the signs did it(People that believe the news, I guess) and everyone under it blames Boston.

I guess they don't care about their futures in politics.

― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Sunday, 11 February 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://vimeo.com/1765474

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 19 September 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

My favourite bit is still Fox blurring out the 3 odd LEDs that are the "middle finger"

― Jarlrmai, Friday, 19 September 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

tonight ... YOU

― I saw the future, but Chris Christie ate it. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://www.joelogon.com/images_temp/013107-inignot-toonz.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:32 (thirteen years ago)

man i was just thinking about this. hard to believe it was 07; seems like something that could only happen in the 02-03 true terror hysteria days.

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:36 (thirteen years ago)

we're still in those days.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:39 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

10 years ago today

― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:56 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

pic.twitter.com/N3BvrcAezx
— adult swim (@adultswim) January 31, 2022

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 January 2022 16:10 (three years ago)

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