Slashdot Mirror
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Brings Boston to a Halt
An anonymous reader writes "An ad campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force featuring the Mooninites Ignignot and Err caused major security concerns in Boston, MA when magnetic light displays were mistaken for possible bombs. The displays included one of Ignignot flipping the bird (as hard as he could), but Gov. Deval Patrick was not amused."
Everyone seems to feel they overreacted but what if they did nothing and they were bombs and some one got hurt? Why didn't the cops just poked around in the bags? See my first comment, that's what bomb squads are for to keep beat cops for getting hurt in situations like this. It was a dumb stunt that's costing us all money. My first thought wasn't bombs but that some one might have been testing responses by the police. There's been a number of other similar cases lately so I've been wary of things like this. Don't be so quick to blast authority figures for doing their jobs for once. Trust me the next time it's a real bomb people will be wondering why they didn't more not wondering why they didn't do less.
Still i think the marketing campaign was in bad taste. It was wholey designed to garner this kind of attention and I don't really find it funny that a large chunk of taxpayer's money is being spent investigating what is effectively a burning paper bag full of doo doo. Then again, you're taking about an advert that probably cost $12.50 to do, and got exposure that probably reached millions of people. So kudos PR marketing firm, you've earned that B.A. I guess it really boils down to how funny people think terrorism is. If you think it's hilarious, don't be too surprised if no one else is laughing. Comedy's hard enough without dealing with an audience that thinks constitutional rights are really just guidelines, and liberalism is the forefront enemy in the unspoken war on cultural values. And i don't really feel like defending someone else over a joke. That's the ACLU's job and they might be a little too busy trying to get basic humanitarian/legal rights for people in gitmo among other things. Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force sucks. there. i said it. god.
You sheep. So your mentally retarded local government pisses everyone in the city off, then blames it on this guy for putting up signs that looked so much like bombs that the bomb squad doesn't thing to use anything more protective than nitrile gloves to handle them see: http://www.drudgereport.com/boston.jpg ?? And you're blaming the guy from Turner? Hope you like the reich.
Sieg Heil
Idiot