Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare

DesertBlade writes "Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign. Turner (CN's parent company) ended up paying over 2 million in restitution to the city of Boston, and a man with a thirteen year record at the company has lost his job. Though many people have been citing this as 'the ultimate successful advertising campaign', there have obviously been real consequences from the incident." By virtue of the consequences of the campaign, was this now officially a bad idea? Or is your opinion that this is all far too much knee-jerking? Have your say in the comments.

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Well that sounds like a personal problem.

[User 956]

Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign.

Resigning from your job is easy. Getting a 10-speed, filling it with illegal substances and sending it across the border is not.

Re:Aqua Teen Hunger Force sucks

[Crazy Man on Fire]

As the t-shirt says...

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the Bomb

Doin' a heck of a job, Bean Town

[bgspence]

At least the city of Boston found the weapons of mass deception.

If I were Jim Samples

[alanmeyer]

... then I would have just blamed the whole thing on Meatwad. Shake gets away with that kind of crap all the time.

YTMND as always --

[RoutedToNull]

I think this says it best... http://bostonbombsquadtraining.ytmnd.com/

My gift to the fine people of Boston

[bXTr]

I know you can't see this, but I'm doing this harder than I've ever done it before.

Re:I agree

[Greg.Rodden]

I find it disturbing how much you seem to know about bombs...