The risk of terrorism today is the same as it was before 9/11. It could even be less depending on what DHS has been up to. Only true idiots think 9/11 changed anything wrt safety in America. The "climate of terrorism" is wholly a concoction of girlish fear mongers who cower before their own imaginings.

Furthermore, the police will never ever randomly stumble across a terrorist plot. There is absolutely nothing stopping anyone from going to public areas and setting bombs off other than the fact that there are very few terrorists here. The situation the Boston PD thought they had on their hands was preposterous on its face.

The were simply fools who don't understand probability, don't understand cost-benefit, and don't have common sense. They are those people who buy lottery tickets and seriously expect to win every time. Like this fag adfodgiad, the Boston officials based their decisions on their completely deluded picture of reality. It cost taxpayers millions, and it looks as though they aren't done, yet.

2/2/2007 12:37:36 AM

Wow.

Maybe Boston should stage an "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Party" where they throw all the offending devices into the Boston Harbor. In protest of ... um ... uh ...

2/2/2007 3:46:10 AM

BOOM

2/2/2007 4:39:34 AM

to be fair if these devices were powered with laptop batteries then there might have been a good chance that they would explode.

2/2/2007 7:39:45 AM

Had to turn it to Faux News this morning just to hear what those nutjobs had to say about this. It was worth a good laugh hearing them constantly fearmonger further by bringing up 9/11 again and again and again ad nausium.

2/2/2007 8:54:51 AM

It's amazing to me how Boston completely missed stopping the 9/11 hijackers, but they are all over these signs. If it were a bomb, it wouldn't have a lighted sign with a cartoon flipping you off. One would expect a real bomb to be less conspicuous.

What we still haven't learned is that we need smarter security, not more security. We need analysts and highly trained agents, not massive armies of donut eating, dropout, Barney Fifes.

I'm just waiting for campus police to confuse some students ECE212 breadboard project with a bomb. I mean it has microchips and lots of wires, clearly a bomb.

[Edited on February 2, 2007 at 10:03 AM. Reason : ?]

2/2/2007 10:02:22 AM

^my friend and I used to joke about that all the time with the 212 and 306 projects

we'd say that whenever we get on the bus, people probably think we're holding bombs

2/2/2007 10:04:19 AM

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"It's amazing to me how Boston completely missed stopping the 9/11 hijackers, but they are all over these signs."

It took them 3 weeks to even find the signs that were lit up and in public places. So, if we are to compare it to 9-11 (like the tards in Boston are), they dropped the ball, again.

2/2/2007 11:18:40 AM

They aren't tards, they're tahhhhhds.

2/2/2007 4:21:27 PM

Quote :

"It's amazing to me how Boston completely missed stopping the 9/11 hijackers, but they are all over these signs."

HAHAHAHAHHAHA perfect! TWW should attack WRAL and other news network's comment sections under this article and post that.

[Edited on February 2, 2007 at 4:42 PM. Reason : s]

2/2/2007 4:42:34 PM

Broadcaster to Pay $2M in Bomb Scare
http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/1193356/

2/5/2007 11:28:22 AM

Quote :

" "Really, he is just digging himself into a bigger hole" this is a re-occurring theme in boston"

ftw.

[Edited on February 5, 2007 at 11:30 AM. Reason : .]

2/5/2007 11:30:10 AM

i think turner should be able to count the 2 mil off in taxes as 'promotion expenditure'

2/5/2007 12:17:07 PM

I think they got more than $2 mil worth it ad time.

2/5/2007 12:17:51 PM

guess we'll see when the movie comes out

2/5/2007 12:19:10 PM

Or Turner should be able to write off that $2 million as a donation to charity. I mean after this I would heavily consider Boston's local government a charity case in the first right.

And their residents don't help the cause either.

2/5/2007 12:29:35 PM

This publicity "ad" cost less than a 30 second commercial during the Superbowl.

ATHF ftw!

2/6/2007 5:29:14 PM

^ they maybe shoulda sprung for the 30 second ad.

Quote :

"'Aqua Teen' still hungers for higher ratings Thursday, February 8, 2007 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- So much for the notion that any publicity - even bad publicity - is helpful: Ratings hardly went up for the Cartoon Network show with the ad campaign that briefly paralyzed Boston. Blinking electronic devices planted around Boston to promote "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" caused authorities, who were worried they might be bombs, to shut down bridges and highways on Jan. 31. The cartoon averaged 386,000 viewers last week among its targeted demographic of 18-to-24-year-olds, according to Nielsen Media Research. The previous week, the show averaged a virtually identical 380,000 among young viewers. The devices were removed from Boston and nine other cities where they had been planted after the incident. The Cartoon Network's corporate parent, Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Broadcasting Systems, and an advertising agency agreed to pay $2 million in compensation."

2/9/2007 2:02:35 AM

the ads were meant for the movie, not the show. i dont think anyone who knew nothing about the show before what happened in boston would start watching it because of the stupidity of bostonians, especially since it comes on after midnight. we'll see what happens when the movie comes out.

[Edited on February 9, 2007 at 3:12 AM. Reason : thats better]

2/9/2007 3:06:38 AM

Breaking news on CNN:

Quote :

"The head of Cartoon Network, Jim Samples, has submitted his resignation in the wake of the Boston bomb scare sparked by an advertising campaign."

2/9/2007 3:13:39 PM

what a spineless bastard

2/9/2007 3:14:09 PM

yeah, i'd already forgotten about it.

if he had waited a few more months it would have been a good story for a cocktail party.

2/9/2007 3:20:18 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070209/ap_on_bi_ge/suspicious_devices

Quote :

"Bomb squads were called in and bridges and highways were shut down Jan. 31 when authorities found more than three dozen electronic boards depicting a boxy cartoon character giving the finger. The devices — planted in a subway station, on bridges and other spots — turned out to be part of a publicity campaign for the Cartoon Network's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force." The campaign also had been staged in nine other big U.S. cities in recent weeks without drawing as much attention."

And that right there should be all the reason why the city of Boston should hold itself accountable for yelling "FIRE" when they didnt even see any smoke. Remotely.

Someone with the Boston City leadership or management needs to accept responsibility for sending the city into an unwarranted panic. Or atleast get these people some contact with the outside world.

2/9/2007 4:00:35 PM

^^^^

Are you fucking kidding me? What the fuck....

Seriously, Boston, grow up.

2/9/2007 5:43:38 PM