ATTACK!!!!
News Articles from Boston.com:
"Turner Broadcasting acknowledged late this afternoon that the suspicious objects that ignited fears of bombs across Boston today were magnetic lights that were part of an outdoor marketing campaign for an adult cartoon.
Turner was promoting Adult Swim's animated television show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" in Boston and nine other cities, according to a statement e-mailed by Shirley Powell, a company spokeswoman."
(http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/02/men_accused_of_2.html)
"When explosive material teams examined the devices on bridges and underpasses Wednesday, experts thought that the electronic rectangles could have been bombs, Grossman said. The devices had a power source and wires leading to an object wrapped in duct tape. In the end, the duct tape only contained batteries -- but it could have concealed some type of explosive, Grossman said."
(http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/02/men_accused_of_2.html)
Back story:
Yesterday there was panic sweeping accross Boston. There were weird black things attached to bridges and overpasses and other places, that were thought to be bombs.
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!
Of course the suspicious devices ended up being cool light up things that were to advertise for Aqua Teen Hunger Force (a fantastic show by the by). Interstate 93 was shut down for a while. As was the Redline. Complete panic. There were ambulences, Fire Trucks, Police, Helicopters. Man, crazy times in the city. They even blew up the first one they found. You can go on e-bay but the ones people snagged before the Bomb squad went out and took them are selling for like more than $600 which sucks cuz I totally want one for my wall.
So yes. That is the excitement in my tizown for yesterday.
Did the media over-react?
Definately. They were calling it terrorists
from the start. No proof. Nothing.
Did the authorites over-react?
This is harder to decide. Because if there were actually bombs, then they
would have responded correctly. But I think the fact that the ads had been in place for a few
weeks kinda changes things. Randomly someone got spooked and then the entire
city stopped. I don't know how I feel about that.
Basically we are at a state with all of this terrorism stuff that we are jumping at everything and we live in fear.
Which is exactly what the terrorists want.
They want us to be afraid and not to live our lives the way we should.
So they are winning without even trying.
Yeah So Turner was wrong and should have cleared this with Boston PD or somthing before doing it. And Turner should have responded way faster when the fiasco started (Supposedly it was a few hours later that they sent a one paragraph apology, before telling Boston PD where all of the ad's were located).
So what do you guys think of all of this?
The guys who were hired to put up the ads have a Fantastic interview that can be found here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4
which just sums up everything.