We are the Mooninites...
In what may be the funniest story so far this year, the city of Boston was severly paralyzed this morning and afternoon by a series of up to 10 "suspicious packages" found around the city at bridges, near a hospital and other prominent buildings. The bomb squad was called in to investigate and detonated several of them, thinking they could be Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs, like the ones causing a great deal of trouble to soldiers in Iraq).
What is funny about this story, you may well ask? Just that the "suspicious packages" happen to be Lite-Brites in the shape of the Mooninites from the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Adult Swim.
Oh, and by the way, these things have been in their current locations for AT LEAST TWO WEEKS, maybe longer. This guy took pictures and wrote about it in his blog on Jan. 15. This doesn't inspire much confidence in the promptness of Homeland Security...
Full story here and here.
Update: Evidently, Adult Swim was behind the whole thing. They are in ten major cities and have been there for three weeks as advertising for the upcoming ATHF movie. That just makes all the speculation by the Cable news people of "stoner college kids playing a sick prank that only they thought was funny" even more amusing.
What a great news day.
What is funny about this story, you may well ask? Just that the "suspicious packages" happen to be Lite-Brites in the shape of the Mooninites from the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Adult Swim.
Oh, and by the way, these things have been in their current locations for AT LEAST TWO WEEKS, maybe longer. This guy took pictures and wrote about it in his blog on Jan. 15. This doesn't inspire much confidence in the promptness of Homeland Security...
Full story here and here.
Update: Evidently, Adult Swim was behind the whole thing. They are in ten major cities and have been there for three weeks as advertising for the upcoming ATHF movie. That just makes all the speculation by the Cable news people of "stoner college kids playing a sick prank that only they thought was funny" even more amusing.
What a great news day.