Aqua Teen ad sets off bomb scare

[Burninator]

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested two men in connection with electronic light boards depicting a middle-finger-waving moon man that triggered repeated bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday and prompted the closure of bridges and a stretch of the Charles River.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis called it "unconscionable" that the marketing campaign was executed in a post 9/11 era. "It's a foolish prank on the part of Turner Broadcasting," he said. "In the environment nowadays ... we really have to look at the motivation of the company here and why this happened."

Boston is a litte on edge.

So stop putting up your middle finger, ya terrorist.

[Kidder]

Oh I love that show!!

I really hope this mix-up doesn't nix the upcoming movie that was scheduled to open on March 23. The moon men are the best.

"Quiet, I'm transmitting rage"

[Bobblehead]

I haven't watches ATHF but I do laugh out loud when I see Robot Chicken. The "Logan's Run" reference the other night was classic.

[RougeUnderoos]

Can someone explain to me how they could mistake one of those things for a bomb? Where are the explosives supposed to be? It's just a flat panel with lightbulbs.

I read somewhere that they'd been up all over the city for a couple weeks before they went hysterical over them.

[Rathji]

People are just ######ed

[Resolute 14]

Apparently they had set these things up in a dozen cities.

Only Boston flipped out.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Can someone explain to me how they could mistake one of those things for a bomb? Where are the explosives supposed to be? It's just a flat panel with lightbulbs.

I read somewhere that they'd been up all over the city for a couple weeks before they went hysterical over them.

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

Clearly the makings of bomb. Hysteria well deserved.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Originally Posted by Burninator

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

Clearly the makings of bomb. Hysteria well deserved.

Uh oh...I suppose a car would be considered a bomb as well. Better get rid of that alarm clock, cause, you know...those minute and hour hands signify terrorism. Also, i'm sure the automatic toothbrush is a bomb as well, cause it vibrates and all...

[SaskaBushFire]

Boston is just mad cause their team is going to miss the playoffs. So they took it out on these light boards, it really is quite simple.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by TheyCallMeBruce

Uh oh...I suppose a car would be considered a bomb as well. Better get rid of that alarm clock, cause, you know...those minute and hour hands signify terrorism. Also, i'm sure the automatic toothbrush is a bomb as well, cause it vibrates and all...

Your post is unconscionable and is foolish prank unwelcome in a post 9/11 era.

[FunkMasterFlame]

The guys who were charged with this crime had one of the funniest press conferences I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4

[photon]

This is beyond bizarre. Boston should be ashamed. And I guess CBS is going to pay the $1 million in expenses!

[metallicat]

I'd rather see a city or a police service over-react towards a potential bomb and be wrong, than to not react at all, and be wrong.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

I'd rather see a city or a police service over-react towards a potential bomb and be wrong, than to not react at all, and be wrong.

yeah, i mean i guess so, but you really have to be a ###### to think that terrorists will be using LED billboards with toy figures on them as their format to create havoc with the people. i dont mind them checking it out, but the paranoia caused was too much.

there is being vigilant, and then there is just plain being silly. reminds me a bit of the situation in new york where now you can't buy a box-cutter unless you are 21....which im sure is a HUGE deterrent to all those terror mongers out there.

[Flames_Gimp]

the terrorists have won!

lol

[metallicat]

Originally Posted by Table 5

yeah, i mean i guess so, but you really have to be a ###### to think that terrorists will be using LED billboards with toy figures on them as their format to create havoc with the people. i dont mind them checking it out, but the paranoia caused was too much.

there is being vigilant, and then there is just plain being silly. reminds me a bit of the situation in new york where now you can't buy a box-cutter unless you are 21....which im sure is a HUGE deterrent to all those terror mongers out there.

I hear what you're saying, but in cities like Edmonton or Calgary, the police take potential bombs very seriously. We just don't hear about it on this large a scale.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

the police take potential bombs very seriously.

The cops should check these things out, of course. It's more the hysteria of regular Bostonians that is the part that makes people shake their head.

[arsenal]

All it takes is one person to report it. The rumor mill takes it from there.

[Flame On]

I hear there's a backlash against boston on the internet? Forum's and such I would imagine, about their wigging out so knee jerkingly like all other cities didn't.
Frickin alarmists.

[Josh]

We had those things all over Portland too, no one freaked out over them at all. One of the news stations here asked the police chief what they were going to do about it, his reply was "nothing, we actually have some real work to do".

Aqua Teen Hunger Force > Boston