Over-reaction City
OMG Boston! There are these boxes all over the city, and they've got blinking lights! Some of them blink yellow, some blink red, and some blink in a pattern of yellow, red, green, yellow, red, green! And they're all over the city, practically on every street corner! Some of them have wires, and some of them are in groups hanging on poles above the street! What are you going to do?!
Ok, if you haven't figured out by now that this is satirical and I'm talking about traffic signals: then you might be working for the city of Boston. (Hmm, maybe a new catchphrase for Jeff Foxworthy?)
It's bad enough that the Boston city authorities panicked earlier this year over some LED signs and batteries, now they're panicking over a girl with some LEDs on her sweatshirt? Didn't anyone in Boston learn from the first over-blown incident?
And someone in Boston really, really needs to look up the definition of "hoax". Just because you panic out of ignorance, that does not make it a hoax. There has to be intent and deliberate action to deceive before you can call it a hoax. So far, all you have is hysteria, over-reaction, and poor judgment. But no hoax.
It is past time for the authorities in Boston to apologize for overreacting and start trying to restore the city's image. And if they're not going to do that, maybe they should change the city nickname to "Mr. Bean Town" -- that would be so much more in-line with the city's current public image.
Ok, if you haven't figured out by now that this is satirical and I'm talking about traffic signals: then you might be working for the city of Boston. (Hmm, maybe a new catchphrase for Jeff Foxworthy?)
It's bad enough that the Boston city authorities panicked earlier this year over some LED signs and batteries, now they're panicking over a girl with some LEDs on her sweatshirt? Didn't anyone in Boston learn from the first over-blown incident?
And someone in Boston really, really needs to look up the definition of "hoax". Just because you panic out of ignorance, that does not make it a hoax. There has to be intent and deliberate action to deceive before you can call it a hoax. So far, all you have is hysteria, over-reaction, and poor judgment. But no hoax.
It is past time for the authorities in Boston to apologize for overreacting and start trying to restore the city's image. And if they're not going to do that, maybe they should change the city nickname to "Mr. Bean Town" -- that would be so much more in-line with the city's current public image.