Wow, hope Adult Swim doesn't lose any heads over this.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html
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trancejeremy
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I don't understand how this could happen - surely someone on the Boston police force had seen the show? Or simply just looked at the device (basically a Lite Brite) and say "Duh, this isn't a bomb". If people would use some common sense instead of getting hysterical...
I mean, yes, it could have been a bomb cunningly designed to look like a Lite Brite. But surely every day in a big city people lose cell phones and laptops and the like. Bombs can be designed to look like those - people don't go crazy when they find one of those.
I mean, yes, it could have been a bomb cunningly designed to look like a Lite Brite. But surely every day in a big city people lose cell phones and laptops and the like. Bombs can be designed to look like those - people don't go crazy when they find one of those.
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Oh for the love of all that is Holy.....
There are no words that can describe my feelings about this. *shakes head and walks away*
There are no words that can describe my feelings about this. *shakes head and walks away*
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I am quite sure the vast majority of the police force in Boston don't watch the show. Unless someone who did happened to personally see the devices, there would be no warning. It isn't like you line up the entire police force and hand the thing around and ask, "Has anyone seen this before?"
Right - so that the only thing the Bad Guys would need to get things blown up is to make their devices look silly? Imagine what happens the one time a guy uses "common sense" and it turns up he's wrong. The police are paid to be paranoid about people's safety. That's kind of their job, you know.
And, to be honest, while it made the news it really wasn't that big a deal in town - I was traveling about during the day, whle this was happening, and didn't notice any difficulties. Didn't even hear about it until I watched the news yesterday evening. It wasn't like it paralyzed the town, or anything.
You, obviously, have not been nearby in Boston's Logan Airport when they find unattended baggage with electronic bits. They take it quite seriously. When they can, they keep it quiet, because panic does not serve the public good. Unfortunately, it is difficult to keep possible threats to bridges quiet.
A suspicious package that is obviously electronic in nature? Sure. That merits a solid reaction.
A flat sheet of plastic with no packaging room for explosives to be carried? That pretty clearly looks like an ad.
I'm not saying that the line isn't fuzzy. I'm saying that that isn't in the fuzzy part. Going off of additional reports, it's looking like the blame lies not with the ad-makers (who were doing your usual annoying but not malignant guerilla ad campaign) or the police (who responded to the best of their ability and realized quickly that this was nothing to be concerned about) but with the people who called this in as a bomb threat.
Given that cities all over the rest of the United States were able to figure out that this was just stupid guerilla advertising, how likely is it for Boston to have received FOUR separate bomb-threat calls in such a short span of time? That suggests that a group of friends decided to call the ads in as a possible bomb sighting.
Not definite. I'm sure more information will surface eventually. But right now, I'm only as annoyed with the ad-people as I am with ad-people on general principle. I'm not annoyed with the cops. I'm a little annoyed with the political folks who insist on calling it a "hoax", implying that the ad-people were specifically trying to make people think "bomb", as a roundabout way of justifying the political overreaction. And I'd really like to learn more about the concerned citizens who helpfully brought this to our attention.
A flat sheet of plastic with no packaging room for explosives to be carried? That pretty clearly looks like an ad.
I'm not saying that the line isn't fuzzy. I'm saying that that isn't in the fuzzy part. Going off of additional reports, it's looking like the blame lies not with the ad-makers (who were doing your usual annoying but not malignant guerilla ad campaign) or the police (who responded to the best of their ability and realized quickly that this was nothing to be concerned about) but with the people who called this in as a bomb threat.
Given that cities all over the rest of the United States were able to figure out that this was just stupid guerilla advertising, how likely is it for Boston to have received FOUR separate bomb-threat calls in such a short span of time? That suggests that a group of friends decided to call the ads in as a possible bomb sighting.
Not definite. I'm sure more information will surface eventually. But right now, I'm only as annoyed with the ad-people as I am with ad-people on general principle. I'm not annoyed with the cops. I'm a little annoyed with the political folks who insist on calling it a "hoax", implying that the ad-people were specifically trying to make people think "bomb", as a roundabout way of justifying the political overreaction. And I'd really like to learn more about the concerned citizens who helpfully brought this to our attention.
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