As I watch Nightline, they are discussing a failed marketing plan by Cartoon Network. Back story. Cartoon network had put out circuit boards representing one of the characters from the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The placed ten of these boxes throughout the Boston area. Someone thought it was suspicious and notified authorities. In turn causing a massive "homeland defense" action, even blowing one of them up. Cartoon netork has done this in other cities with no problems. The man who put out the advertisements is now under arrest for causing a panic and law makers are crying out for justice. Question: Do you feel the Boston authorities are over reacting, considering this has been done in other major cities with no problems?
2007-01-31 16:46:01 · 5 answers · asked by Jon R 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
It's perfect. It was the most perfect thing to do. The most liberal of cartoons having the government tell them that they're terrorists, all because they put up lite-brites all over the city... I thought that it would be great to see that, but now that it's an "issue", I'm so pissed at the government for overreacting! The funniest thing, though, is that the person who called it a bomb was a HARVARD COLLEGE PROFESSOR! Go America!
2007-02-01 06:08:55 · answer #1 · answered by johnmfsample 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sean Steven and Peter Berdovsky was not the ones who caused the panic. It was the fear zealots within the Boston government. Now they need a pasty because they have a big wad of s**t on their face. Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky are made the stooges because the officials in Boston duped themselves into a bomb scare and wasted so much money. C'mon, common sense say if you are going to plant a bomb on a road way you don't use something decked with a big neon light. People are still in such a "hide your head in the sand, the sky is falling" state of fear they will create terrorist and threats from anything. It would have been an expensive but ineffective promotion(apparently no one really noticed)had the fear monger Boston officials not got into the act. And just because they made fools of themselves they are trying to relabel it a hoax, as to place blame on someone other than their own stupidity. If you see a weather balloon and go tearing down the street in your car and crash it, it is your own fault because you believed it to be something else. A ghost, monster, UFO etc.
2007-01-31 20:06:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think Boston just went and told the whole country "Hey you guys! Look at us! We're a bunch of paranoid idiots who are in no way in touch with current trends or society." Boy, I'm sure that was the kind of publicity Boston was looking for.
2007-02-01 01:48:39 · answer #3 · answered by xenomorph_girl 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If it has been done in other cities with no problems, then clearly.
It's sad that we have become so paranoid as a nation that we create national news by putting boxes with flashing lights around a city.
2007-01-31 16:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by joecool123_us 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
this kind of joke is definitely in the not funny category,given past and present events and threats.
anyone participating in or promoting this kind of "prank' deserves to be locked up.
i support the police.
2007-01-31 16:57:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋