What's up with Boston? LED boards featuring Mooninite character for Adult Swim cartoon "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" had been placed for weeks in 10 other US cities, but caused a bomb scare only in Beantown.
The devices displayed one of the "Mooninites," outer-space delinquents who make frequent appearances on the cartoon, greeting passersby with a raised middle finger. Nine were reported around Boston on Wednesday, sending police bomb squads scrambling and snarling traffic and mass transit in one of the largest U.S. cities.
Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll called Wednesday's incidents "a colossal waste of money." She had no immediate comment on whether any laws were broken but said police would investigate further.
I nearly died. i just heard about this because I had Jury duty all day. i think this might have been MUCH MORE FUN!! I am so glad that I am not a reporter...LOL
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If anyone gets charged, let's hope it is whoever told the police and the media to FREAK OUT over a LED Sign of an alien flippin' people off.
Haha, gotta love the Mooninites. I can't believe they freaked out over this. What a laugh.
Here's Peters site, it's pretty cool. : http://zebbler.com/
Also, look how the media photoshopped the mooninites : http://www.fantent.com/2007/01/31/aqua-teen-hunger-force-media-alters-photos/
Get your ATHF is the bomb T-shirt! : http://raplica.com/store/shirts/Adlt_Swim/mooninite
I feel kinda sorry for the two "artists" whose job it was to put the things up (it's about as artistic as changing the numbers on a gas station sign).
They'll probably take the fall for the big companies who thought up this bad idea.
If that turns out to be the case, they most definitely are liable. That's not clever marketing, that's just an attempt to cause a panic.
What's next? Are they going to hire these guys to run into a crowded theater and yell "Firestone"?
Without any form of explanation invovled, duct taping a poorly constructed black box with a cartoon character to a concrete piling of an important, and highly visible bridge...being on the careful side is a little better.
Some people might have recognized them immediately but that doesn't mean, with the available information, that it was safe.
Couldn’t they have figured out from a quick examination of the first one it was just a small lit up sign, not a bomb. How can anybody be this stupid?
Good grief.
Somebody should charge all the police and bomb squads for that bill and for getting the community all worked up over nothing… simply terrible.
PS - I would like one of these things too, I'll stick it onto our town monument - maybe they'll call for a total evacuation!!
Boston officials did blow the situation out of proportion by not examning the first board and taking the steps to calm the public and remove the remaining signs.
At the same time, the boards are a bit small for any decent examination on it's structure and as Debbie said, someone could take it the wrong way
Personally, I think it's hilarious. But if you take a step back and put the other factors in, it's really not as funny as initially thought. But one thing's for certain: I'm getting one of those alien shirts. hehehe >:)
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