Scary Thing
by Nick Koshnick
31 January 2007
Hell, we don’t even need al-Qaeda. The cartoon network started a small advertisement campaign in a handful of american cities and Boston decide it was being attacked. Sure, some of the scary devices were placed on or near bridges and in subways, but seriously, there’s no way something with 3 D batteries, a couple dozen LEDs, and a photoresistor should be scary. Compare this
article
(and others like it) to the photo posted below.
Is the government’s response anything but comical?
Jan 31, 10:01 PM
I thought the funniest part of the article was the description of the show
“the devices were part of a promotion for the TV show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” a surreal series about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball.”
For anyone who has seen the show, do the fries and meatball talk too, or just the milkshake?
It sounds like only the milkshake talks, but mute fries and a mute meatball don’t sound like interesting characters.
Feb 1, 11:24 AM
My sister loves Aqua Teen Hunger force. They all talk. I agree, it’s hilarious watching journalists try to describe the show from behind their dry, “objective”, mask.
The fiasko was pretty absurd. I hope Cosmo writes something, because he rode his bike to work through the “parking lot” that one of the major roads became. No reasonable person would look at one of those signs and think “bomb”. They’ve been up for 3 weeks in 10 cities.
Obviously no one expects the authorities to say “Our bad, we over reacted”, but that’s the truth. All day the news referred to the signs as “suspicious packages” and later “sophisticated electronic devices”. Are you kidding me? A circuit board with LEDs and a few batteries? This is Boston. Kids ride the bus with their science experiment or engineering project. You can’t freak about about that kind of thing.
Besides, real bombs look like backpacks, vans, and puffy jackets in the summer. Everyone knows that.
Feb 1, 02:50 PM
Someone set up us the (F) bomb!
I love that certain news agencies were obfuscating the pixelated middle finger. Hilarious. Also, while I appreciate that some random person riding the T didn’t know what this thing was, it should have taken the bomb squad no more than 30 minutes to ID it, share a quick laugh, and then grab some coffee and go back to work. I’m sure they enjoyed testing their bomb disabling water canon, but not coming out immediately and saying, its a freaking LITE BRITE probably cost our city $500000. Also, if the two guys who put these things up get charged with anything that even sounds like terrorism, people are going to be PISSED.