mooninites cause havok in boston!

Rhinokey · Feb 2007

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070131/NEWS07/70131046/1014/BUSINESS

this is so stupid,, we live in a society now that anything is instantly asumed to be a bomb.. i saw this on the news tonite, also was a story about a bomb squad called to blow up a back pack left at a buss station,, retarded.. people should just chill

Uly · Feb 2007

"I hope they can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can."

KeyserSoze · Feb 2007

My brother told me about this story earlier today... what pisses me off is that the Mayor and other officials are making accusations that this was an intentional "hoax," and that the retard-induced panic that ensued was intentional (I think they've already made a few arrests). It's a stupid sign with LED lights... how fucking stupid do you have to be to think that is a bomb? And then how much stupider do you have to be to blame Cartoon Network for your own stupidity?

James Edwards · Feb 2007

Hahah! Aqua Teen Hunger Force ftw! I feel sorry for the artist who got busted though. The upshot being that he got himself on TV! The downside - busted for deadly use of Lite-Brite! OMG! THE TERROR!

Joao Sapiro · Feb 2007

( hears green day album, bullet in the bible )

*ahem* thats pretty fucked up, Aqua teen hunger force is the best acid show ever thou !

KeyserSoze · Feb 2007

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Hahah! Aqua Teen Hunger Force ftw! I feel sorry for the artist who got busted though. The upshot being that he got himself on TV! The downside - busted for deadly use of Lite-Brite! OMG! THE TERROR!

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HAHAH! LITE-BRITE! I didn't even realize that's what it was (or at least, what it resembles)... hysteria and panic over a fucking lite-brite...

Emil Mujanovic · Feb 2007

That is seriously fucking ridiculous! I don't understand how its a "hoax" or can even be called a "hoax". The people responsible for placing these "devices" didn't go around calling the police claiming there are bombs around the city. It's not like it was even done in bad taste or anything... It was simply an ad for a cartoon.
They just need someone to point the finger at for their fuck up.
MAKES ME ANGRY!

GAH!

-caseyjones

Tulkamir · Feb 2007

I like the way the mayor pulled the ol' 9/11 comment. Fuckin politicians. They all oughta be locked up.

sonic · Feb 2007

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

that makes me so happy.

But, it really really really pisses me off how the Mayor is acting.
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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he'll seek to punish those responsible, and indicated that the penalty could be two to five years in prison per count.

After Turner made its announcement, Menino said he was "prepared to take any and all legal action" against the company and its affiliates "for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today's incidents."

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Authorities said some of the objects looked like circuit boards or had wires hanging from them.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358762169/

I guess it's a good thing they just looked like circuit boards and weren't actually the real thing. Then we'd all be fucked.

Malekyth · Feb 2007

What. The. ... Pickles?!

(I meant Fuck, but thought I'd mix it up a bit)

I mean, you've got to be fucking kidding me.

Brian Miller · Feb 2007

Video of the guy making them and putting them up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shy6pmnDSmM&eurl=

I find the whole city wide freak out to be insane. To me this is proof we are allowing terrorist win the mental war they have waged. Cases of authorities over reacting are becoming very common now a days. You know, most bomb makers don't try to draw attention to their devices by making them glow, in fact it's the complete opposite. Use some logic people!

Rhinokey · Feb 2007

well aparnelty they were placed in 5 other cities without incident, if theres any real punishment for this it would be an outrage. there was a few card board boxes on the ground in front of the mailboxes at my apt place,, i should call in and report them. could be bombs you never know.. better safe than sorry

Michael Knubben · Feb 2007

rhinokey: please do it. If you can get away with a bombscare without *actually placing a suspicious item somewhere, that just makes it all the more funny.

hawken · Feb 2007

I'm moving to the moon

Soccerman18 · Feb 2007

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Authorities said some of the objects looked like circuit boards or had wires hanging from them.

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Ahhh! Circuit boards! Run Away! Maybe I should call a bomb squad in on my company, there's dangerous circuit boards all over the place.

Thegodzero · Feb 2007

The reason none of the other city's had this problem is because kids already found them and took them home. I know i would if i saw one and could get to it.

fmnoor · Feb 2007

The two people who got arrested staged a press conference : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4

James Edwards · Feb 2007

AWESOME!
I think that was the best response they could have given. =]

Malekyth · Feb 2007

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The two people who got arrested staged a press conference : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2ytr2Oyv4

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BAHAHAHA ... I love those guys! I also love the fucking reporters who are so exasperated that they won't play the game the way they want them to. "Are you embarassed by your clients' behavior?" OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

This entire situation deserves to be treated with contempt. It's contemptible. I find it goddamn inspiring that they won't allow themselves to be hassled into descending to the low, humble place that is expected of them.

adam · Feb 2007

The fucking news reporters are what pisses me off the most about that video. "How can you not be taking this seriously?"

BECAUSE ITS FUCKING ATHF LITE-BRITE SHINNANIGANS!

Get. The fuck. Over it.

Valandar · Feb 2007

Hey, they were told not to talk about the case, what ELSE would they talk about?

snemmy · Feb 2007

reminds of of just after 9/11 here on campus..

they evacuated the university center building because of a 'bomb'.
turned out to be that an art student left their art box that contained modeling clay and wire for 3D Foundation class and someone freaked out over it.

aesir · Feb 2007

These guys are great!

Justin Meisse · Feb 2007

made me think of the wacky stuff Joe Coleman has gotten away with

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"Through the 1980s Mr. Coleman acted out his shocking and violent cosmology in infamous performances at performing arts spaces and galleries. He revived the sideshow geek act of biting the heads off live mice, outraging animal rights advocates. He set fires onstage, once threatened an arty crowd with a loaded shotgun, and often concluded his act by igniting a chest-pack of dynamite, an explosive stunt for which he was arrested in Boston in 1989 on charges of operating an infernal machine. He framed the arrest warrant."

Rhinokey · Feb 2007

the only thing not a laughing matter about this case is that someone was arested for this shit. its such bullshit. even more bull shit that adultswim posted an apology about it. utter total craps and more craps.

Mark Dygert · Feb 2007

I can only speak for myself but I feel much much safer now...

Asherr · Feb 2007

haha check out the t-shirts on ebay:

1-31-07 Never Forget
ATHF is the Bomb!
Suspected Terrorist

greenj2 · Feb 2007

Haha, awesome. The funny thing is, all this hysteria has done is given them a lot more coverage and attention that the signs alone ever would have. ATHF FTW.

Tulkamir · Feb 2007

Haha, oh man, those guys are great. That video was flipping awesome.

I hate the show with a passion, but this is all ridiculous, and those guys rule.

ScoobyDoofus · Feb 2007

Yeah. Like so many others, I never cared for ATHF until now. Thats awesome/terrible.

adam · Feb 2007

Pic of them laughing in court:
vt1.cartoon.scare.ap.jpg

Luxury · Feb 2007

I don't know why they would even be in court. They were HIRED to do this, correct?

The whole thing is a joke. Plus I hear that the upcoming movie they are promoting is a complete pile of shit. It's been done for nearly a year (screening at USC last spring), and they've been trying to fix it ever since. If you can't even make a 12 minute show with a cohesive plot throughout, how the hell are you supposed to turn it into ~90?

Rhinokey · Feb 2007

i think they were hired to promote it. but the way they did it was their idea. i'm so glad they are not taking the "oh we are so sorry we shouldnt have done it stance" because in 220% THEY DID NOTHIN WRONG. this whole thing is ridiculous. and if theres a conviction. then something has gone wrong. we get a lot of stupid things going to court, like all the game violene suits. but it most always gets shot down there as being stupid.

kinda of ashame adultswim.coms whole asskissing apology on their website, they shoulda fought this the whole way as being a joke. but i guess their parrent companys were too scared.. the whole company could get marked as terrorists!

notman · Feb 2007

I feel embarrassed for Boston and I don't live there

This is the biggest political/media circus over nothing that I've seen in a while

Mark Dygert · Feb 2007

I'm glad I live in a place that didn't freak out about it.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003550583_ploy01.html

Adult Swim apologized to Boston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM70Iu2IhIk&NR

Thegodzero · Feb 2007

notman, did you forget the runaway bride...

Justin Meisse · Feb 2007

I'd like to see the bump Adult Swim would of ran if it weren't for lawyers, it would probably involve calling the whole city of Boston a bitch.

notman · Feb 2007

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notman, did you forget the runaway bride...

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lol, good call... I still think this one tops it a little but good point

Tis the reason I don't like watching the news anymore though.

blankslatejoe · Feb 2007

my girlfriend (a bostonian) brought up a good point; boston was the city that originated all the 9/11 flights--the city might be still be in a 'better to overreact and say 'oh false alarm'' than let it slide and have more people watchdogging them for missing 'obvious clues' and ignoring call ins if something DOES happen. All it takes is one or two retards to call something like that in and the city will go into paranoid mode.

either way--its a done thing. all this aftermath is retarded.

Mark Dygert · Feb 2007

I would buy into the "better to overreact and say 'oh false alarm'" thing, if it wasn't for the retarded aftermath at the tax payers expense. Face it Boston has too many uptight pricks who can't admit they overreacted.

Boston... let it go... You're done. Save it for an election year.

notman · Feb 2007

Personally, I see nothing wrong with the reaction to the lite-brites... with the bomb squad and such. The mayor's reaction to this is overkill though. Just say it was in bad taste, remind them of the today's security situations, then let it go.

rooster · Feb 2007

hmm though. coloured light adverts are in bad taste? I don't think it would have occurred to me once someone would think it looked like a bomb. It only looks like a bomb because people are scared shitless imagining all kinds of stuff because of the terror paranoia everywhere. Doesnt that mean the terrorists are succeding?

notman · Feb 2007

lol, I just had a vision of terrorists playing with lite-brites.

The bad taste is setting up electronic devices in unusual public locations... like there is no reason a lite-brite should be at a subway entrance. It's not much different than an unattended backpack. Personally, I would have seen it as a lite-brite and probably thought, wow, a lite-brite with a funny character on it.

Justin Meisse · Feb 2007

make yer own on the cheap

or even cooler, electro graffiti

Vailias · Feb 2007

Of course a litebrite as a piece of advertising should be at a subway entrance. It shouldn't be down a subway tunnel somewhere, the entrance gets foot traffic, and it should be a lot of it. The only way hidden viral marketing works is if its in a HUGE pond like the net (I love bees), if you're physically making things you'd put them in locations where what you're putting up seems strange that still get a lot of traffic. Ie if you were running a campaign using small billboards you'd put them up in hotel lobbies, in parks, and possibly in traffic or at least on street corners, preferably at odd angles. People naturally go "somethings out of place here" then look at what it is, and bam, they're advertised. Glowing 80's sprite like figures giving the finger are out of place almost anywhere.

And yes the mayor is a moron for his overreaction.

hawken · Feb 2007

WTF

they just payed $2m!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6333121.stm

world gone mad

gauss · Feb 2007

somebody HELP PLEASE MY CITY IS FILLED WITH BOMBS

BLINKING LIGHT BOMBS AT EVERY INTERSECTION

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is it wrong to be glad to not to be in the US right now, if only to not have to put up with all the coverage of this idiotfest?

Sage · Feb 2007

I remember when I first saw the damn signs, I thought how in the hell do you confuse that with a bomb. well our government is run my retards what else is new. I can see how the place where the baterries are stored kind of looked like a bomb since it's painted black but whatever. I'm pretty sure they are going to try to convict them.

Alex

Nilium · Feb 2007

gauss, I fucking love you for that.

Pseudo · Feb 2007

Gauss wins. Thread over.

gavku · Feb 2007

hahaha.....gauss.....excellent

mooninites cause havok in boston!

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