So, for anyone who doesn't read Boing Boing, I just wanted to discuss the fiasco in Boston yesterday.
News reports rolled out in the morning that there were "devices" hung from various locations around Boston that were suspected of being bombs. A highway was shut down; panic ensued. Bombs? Was al-Qaeda out to blow up Boston? No. Cartoon Network was running a viral ad campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. A couple of "artists" were hanging what amounted to battery-powered Lite Brites up with Lite Brite images of various Auqa Teen Hunger Force characters on them.
What did Boston do? Say, "whoops, our bad, we panicked"? No. They arrested the guys. Their jackass mayor called the viral campaign "outrageous" and said he would take "any and all" legal action he could against Time Warner (owners of Cartoon Network).
On any day, I would call that an overreaction. But I call it absolutely ridiculous, since this same campaign happend in New York, Seattle, and several other cities where the authorities didn't panic, didn't arrest the "artists", and generally didn't make a big deal about it.
So yeah. Boston. What a bunch of fucktards.
8 months ago
3 comments:
Thank you mayor of Boston for freaking the living crap out of your residents.
If there's anything good that can come of this it's the brilliant press conference about 70s hair.
So considering that,
would sneezing on the bus with a cold be considered a biological terrorist attack in Boston?
Dude....that's insane. But funny!
Cxx
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