| Boston can't take a joke
I'm sure our Mass. residents know about this, but did you guys hear about the big "bomb scare" in Boston yesterday?
Cartoon Network put these "devices" all over the city, which were basically just a character from the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force lit up in lights (the show is absolutely hilarious, by the way). It was basically just an advertsing campaign, that some people mistook for a terrorist threat.
In response to discovering these "devices", the entire city gorund to a halt. Like, the highways, mass transit, boat traffic, etc all stopped.
And, two people who were hired to put the "devices" up were arrested!!!
Here's the ironic thing: These "devices" were placed in 9 other cities (including New York, by thw way), and it was only in Boston where people flipped the fuck out.
Ironic thing #2: If the Boston PD had an 18-year old pothead on their staff, this whole thing probably could have been avoided.
The thing that cracks me up is that this is all just a big misunderstanding, and Boston/Massachusetts officials are basically making it sound like Cartoon Network's intention was to cause a panic, calling it a "hoax" (which it is not, because the ads were not intended to be thought of as a bomb), a "publicity stunt" (which it is not, because it was simply meant to be an ad campaign, not to generate publicity from a bomb scare), and other ridiculous things that blow this situation way out of proportion.
It was all a big misunderstanding. They meant no harm. Lighten up. |