jackskellington101 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 This is true and that, unfortunately, was the poor discretion of Mr. Berdovsky (the artist charged). He also had some on the sides of hospitals, which didn't help either. I can't say how he performed was smart, but it also has the distinct feeling, now all this has exploded, that this guy is getting railroaded. He's the scapegoat for this. Frankly, that sucks. If you'd like to read more on how this is getting overblown, here's Howie Carr's opinion article from the Boston Herald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazan Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 I love the news description of the show. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a show about fries, a meatball, and milk shake." Everyone who hasn't seen it must be like "WTF?!" Also, this is a little off topic, but how is the news allowed to show pictures of the monninite lights when they are raising their middle finger? They even blurred it out on the show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackskellington101 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 That's not always the case. Many news organizations blur it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 This morning NBC Blurred it out...on the Evening News tonight though they let it stay! Â I bet the producer/segment editor doesn't even realize it's a gesture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnage Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Seems pretty typical. Â Huge knee jerk reaction over something minor that will cost alot of money, and just makes the police look like fools. Â Meanwhile while they're investigating light bright bombs someone could be getting on a plane with a real bomb after slipping it by incompetent airport security. Â The only thing left is to bring it up in congress and waste even more of your tax dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekRx Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Yup, and just more hype by the media, the Achilles Heel of this country. Honestly, would anyone in the world care about this other than like the 5 people who saw the ads and thought they were bombs? If they lived in the middle of nowhere, they'd be seeing UFOs and being all abducted and probed and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 While I don't think it was out of line to call it in as a suspicious item (If you were someone who had never seen ATHF and saw that on a bridge, you'd be like "WTF?" too)...the reaction was completely ridiculous. Â God bless America. We can be threatened with arrest and causing the terminal to be shut down for moving an unattended bag the chick at the Southwest counter didn't give two sh*ts about for the 10 minutes we told her about it before moving it, but this shuts the city of Boston down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnage Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 God bless America. We can be threatened with arrest and causing the terminal to be shut down for moving an unattended bag the chick at the Southwest counter didn't give two sh*ts about for the 10 minutes we told her about it before moving it, but this shuts the city of Boston down. Â An airport near me was shut down after they found a hand grenade shaped belt buckle in his luggage. Â Or the plane the guy that was accused of being a terrorist after he dropped his iPod in the toilet, which they thought was a bomb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiCoastal Kid Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 ^People are stupid. After 9/11 now, they think EVERYTHING is a bomb or a *terrorist plot* first... "OMG, LIGHTS SHAPED LIKE A SHAKE!! IT'S A SECRET AL QAEDA MESSAGE!!!" Â please, please explain to us how you think this reaction is stupid? Â i prefer our gov. and police to think everything is bomb first than have anything happen. its the post 9/11 world and i sure dont want to relive another day like that again... Â not everyone is in the know on tv shows or things like that. Â Lite-Brites being bombs was just as big of a threat before the attacks as they are now. The only difference is that people are now overtly and pointlessly scared of everything, when logically they should have been just as scared all along. There are no more belligerent people in the world now then there has ever been(per capita), and one attack is not going to make everything dangerous; it's just the fact that people actually think about it now instead of not giving a damn like they did before. So maybe everybody should change "post 9/11" to "post not-giving-a-crap." Â The reaction to this is ridiculous. All that had to be done was have it announced "Oh, it was just an advertising joke. LOL" instead "Yeah, we have no sense of humor, life is 110% serious in Boston and we will not let our citizens be joked with." Seriously, if a terrorist was going to plant a bomb ON A BRIDGE, I don't think they'd make it obvious. The only times things are made obvious is when somebody is going for pure shock. You dont plant a bright shiny bomb and have everybody get all "WHAT IS THAT???" and then go "Oh, yeah. by the way: BOOM." No, you just plant it discreetly and then blow it up and sit back and watch as everybody tries to figure out what the hell is going on. It creates much more disarray. If people know about it, they can prepare for it, and thus the grieving process is a shorter. People aren't as impacted by what they can anticipate, it's when something big happens like the WTC attacks OUT OF THE BLUE that really gets to people. Just like if you're IN a fight, you can keep doing after getting hit, but if somebody just walks up and decks you you're gonna be sitting down for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 I hate how the news outlets keep calling this a "hoax". A hoax would be if they planted things that looked like bombs, but weren't. These were just advertisements that got mistaken as bombs. Whatever. This is just a way for the media to overreact to a situation to get everyone scared. Â I find it hilarious that the lasting image of all this is a glowing Ignignok flipping everyone off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenDen Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Stupid Boston, although the band is still Kickass  In 1979 maybe.  Now that the city of Boston is the laughing stock of the nation... (insert your own snappy comments here.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiCoastal Kid Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 I wonder if this would get the same reaction if I planted like, lite-brite crucifixes instead of Mooninites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete4winds Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Allow me to add my two cents' worth as an amateur artist with a little guerilla marketing experience, a Boston native, AND a law enforcement professional. Of course, upon reaching the end of my post, feel free to flame on as necessary. Â I see plenty of valid arguments on both sides of this debate. I'm under 35, so I fit into the "anyone under 35 would immediately know this was a joke" category, but I'm not a Cartoon Network guy, so I'd only heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in passing. I wouldn't have immediately recognized any of these signs had I seen one. Â From an artist's point of view, I thought it was brilliant. For good or bad, people are going to be talking about this for some time, and it certainly garnered a reaction. Isn't that the point of guerilla marketing? Everyone involved, dumb as some of their decisions might've been, were geniuses for their approach. Â From a lifelong Boston-area resident's point of view, yes, maybe we did overcompensate, but our city was the "home base," you might say, for the 9/11 attacks. What will happen the NEXT time we don't "overreact?" Some people out there in other large cities might be pretty thankful the Boston PD went batsh*t over this. Here's what COULD happen once we DO become as complacent as we were on Sept. 10th, 2001: "Oh, it's just a Lite Brite...don't worry ab...BOOM!" Just remember this: World Trade Center 1993, "oh, it's just a moving van." Oklahoma City 1995: "Oh, it's just fertilizer." Â Finally, as a current law enforcement professional (five-and-a-half-years on the job, thank you very much - yes, I was on duty on 9/11), these signs are EXACTLY the kind of thing that we are trained to look for as "suspicious devices" are concerned. Exposed batteries and wires are right there at the "top of the list," so to speak, but it's certainly not limited to that. Â Common sense tells us that "if something doesn't seem right, it probably isn't." For someone who's been through intense training specifically to recognize touble, the Boston PD did exactly the right thing. How many times have bomb squads responded to something that turns out to be completely harmless? Hell yeah, I'd much rather have my EOD department blow up a suitcase full of underwear than to hear about innocent people getting killed because someone THOUGHT a package was no more harmful than that same suitcase. Â Again, flame on as necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 9/11 didnt happen because Boston was complacent. Thats the biggest bunch of crap Ive read yet. Maybe theyve taken it too heart, but everything was well in motion far before those planes left Boston. Â They have just taken it way too overboard. I am glad they tried to take some blame for 9/11, but it definatly wasnt their fault. Â Â As for this, hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiCoastal Kid Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 ^^I don't blame them for noticing them, but I'm saying is all they had to do was check and then be like "oh, okay, it's just a light-up sign" and not take it as a threat. It obviously WASN'T a threat, but they're taking it like they're trying to scare everybody. Â Â I mean, the worsr they should get is maybe littering charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metrock Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 It pisses me off how people are still using 9/11 as an excuse for being a pussy. Come on people! This is almost like saying: "You cant do these types of things in a post Pearl Harbor world" Yeah, lets go after the japaneese. Hmm, I wonder what would have happned if the led's were in the shape of Mickey Mouse.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete4winds Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 ^ I won't disagree with you there, but there's really no need to slag the law enforcement community. We're just doing our jobs. If blame has to be placed, how about the ones who MAKE laws that infringe on your rights (vote them out if it pisses you off that much), and the media who MAKE everything an overreaction. This shouldn't even have been much more than a local story in the first place, but because Turner Broadcasting was involved, it was HUGE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splash_Mountain Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 I never even watched this show before this. Now I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhishyBrewer Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I listened to a story on NPR on Friday about this incident. I just think it's funny that this marketing campaign went on in 9 different cities and Boston is the one that freaked out about it. Â My wife on the other hand, thinks that the other 9 cities that didn't catch it should be embarrassed. Â I think she's starting to fall into that red state category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubaidave Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 This really makes me laugh. It just, once again, shows how stupid America is, Thats the country as a whole, not anyone in particular, What with people not letting planes take off because muslims were praying to the kind of biggoted behavior that happens if I were to post about Dubai on RRC. It just means that the rest of the world is Laughing at the US. Crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 ^^^^^You mean the law enforcement agency that shut down the city over a bad viral marketing campaign featuring a cartoon character they probably could have read all about on the internet (or even recognized on their own) shouldn't have some of the blame? Â I don't think it was wrong for initially considering it a suspicious object, but it seems to me like there was no care taken in assessing the threat. Granted I am no police officer, but if I got a report regarding a suspcious item on the bridge...I would be doing some freaking research while I am considering all my options. Â Of course it is always better to be safe than sorry, but you have got to draw the line somewhere. Otherwise all a terrorist will have to do is call in a bunch of threats to do as much damage (getting airpots, freeways, ports, etc. shut down can not be good for our economy. Not to mention all the law enforcement resources that have to get tied up...) as a real terrorist attack! Â But I also understand it is not as easy as that. Closing all the stuff down in response to a bunch of suspicous items being reported is the safe move. But taking so long to figure out it was just misguided marketing campaign IS ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyrider06 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 They were talking about this on the news last night, anyone catch it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neogreeneyez Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 yea Turner company gave 2 million to the city of Boston... They had a split up of the money and where it was going. Some of it was going to Boston Police, some to the MBTA system, some to the Highway system and other stuff. So I guess everyone is off the hook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyrider06 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 ^^Well thats good that everyone is off the hook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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