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Boston Bomb Scare: Outraged Menino vows no mercy for stunt - Sham suspect jailed
Boston Herald ^
| February 1, 2007
| Laura Crimaldi & Michelle McPhee
Posted on 02/01/2007 3:16:22 AM PST by billorites
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To: Col Sanders
I think it's far more likely they'll be pled out to thirty-eight counts of littering or advertising without a license. Turner will pay their fines and the whole incident will be swept quietly under the rug. Could be, Colonel. But the DA is going to be under tremendous pressure from Mayor Menino et al, who have vowed that there will be "no mercy". If the case goes to trial, the judge is really going to have to slap the DA hard to get him to stop.
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posted on
02/02/2007 12:46:10 PM PST
by
bondjamesbond
(Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
To: bondjamesbond
If the case goes to trial, the judge is really going to have to slap the DA hard to get him to stop.Yep. And for a prosecuter, nothing hits harder than the words "case dismissed with prejudice."
Regards,
Col Sanders
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posted on
02/02/2007 1:39:15 PM PST
by
Col Sanders
(I ought to tear your no-good Goddang preambulatory bone frame, and nail it to your government walls)
To: Col Sanders
I can't believe I f-ing misspelled prosecutor.Jeez
Regards,
Col Sanders
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posted on
02/02/2007 1:42:11 PM PST
by
Col Sanders
(I ought to tear your no-good Goddang preambulatory bone frame, and nail it to your government walls)
To: takenoprisoner
Moreover these guys were filming as they placed these signs in plain view around Boston streets the night before.
More like ten days before.
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posted on
02/02/2007 8:16:38 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
"More like ten days before."
Say it ain't so?
To: billorites
Blame the advertisers for a city full of morons. Typical.
To: billorites
Massachusetts is getting to be known as the "botched joke" state.
But so long as Joe Biden is still in politics the identification won't be complete.
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posted on
02/03/2007 10:52:03 AM PST
by
x
To: bondjamesbond
I don't enjoy watching an incompetent police force and mayor use scapegoats to make up for their idiocy. And they will not be shafted, becuase as I have said, they are guilt of littering. Yes in post 9/11 world it was not smart to put cartoon thingys in public with wires, but idicoy has not never been in short supply.
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posted on
02/03/2007 12:17:42 PM PST
by
tarnak
To: takenoprisoner
The original Youtube movie of them putting the signs up was posted a week and a half to two weeks before a civilian, not one of Boston's Finest, discovered the deadly threat and acted on it, saving the city.
The Youtube account is jackpot321, but he pulled the Boston vids- when I saw them the first time, they said "posted ?? days ago" where ?? was 10, or 12, or 14 or something. Quite a while for a city-level threat to go undiscovered.
Look at the dates of the videos that are still up.
I have seen livejournal posts (I don't spend ALL of my time here) talking about seeing the signs well before they became a nuclear level emergency- the signs were popular among the folks who stay up and go out at night (college kids and people a few years out of school). Most of the signs were placed near clubs or bookstores, the ones near bridges were all at places where walkways went under the bridges (BU Bridge, Longfellow, MIT Bridge) so people going from Kenmore Square to MIT, for example, would come across them.
Since they were as bright as traffic lights, lots of people saw them.
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posted on
02/03/2007 3:27:35 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
It's even worse than I imagined. Their standing has been upgraded from incompetent boobs to IDIOTS!
To: bondjamesbond
These devices were designed to look hostile. They were designed with the characteristics that people are looking for in a bomb. Only if you're a 200 proof moron.
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:26:22 AM PST
by
wizecrakker
(Trying to behave)
To: bondjamesbond
They were designed to attract attention from people who have been trained to look for bombs. Ya because, people who plant bombs really, really, REALLY want them to be discovered before they are able to be detonated. They never try to disguise the bombs.
Are you really Mayor Menino's spokesman?
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:34:59 AM PST
by
wizecrakker
(Trying to behave)
To: wizecrakker
But they were not really bombs, silly.
Perhaps I should have been more clear. My contention is that they were designed to provoke a police response, that would get Aqua Teen Hunger Force front page positioning.
In that sense, they succeeded spectacularly.
If you feel the need to denigrate the Boston Police Force in order to explain why they were spectacularly successful, have at it. No skin off my nose. I am just saying they achieved what they were designed to achieve.
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posted on
02/05/2007 8:45:45 AM PST
by
bondjamesbond
(Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
To: bondjamesbond
My contention is that they were designed to provoke a police response, that would get Aqua Teen Hunger Force front page positioning. It took three weeks for that provoked police response, and only occured in one city out of nearly a dozen.
I'd hardly call that succeeding spectacularly if their intent was to create a bomb hoax.
Whoever is in charge of the BPD bomb squad needs to be replaced.
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posted on
02/05/2007 9:19:54 AM PST
by
wizecrakker
(Trying to behave)
To: wizecrakker
I'd hardly call that succeeding spectacularly if their intent was to create a bomb hoax. The intent was to get you and me and about a Hundred Million other people to know about Aqua Teen Hunger Force. If you don't call this a success, you have very high standards for advertising efficiency.
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posted on
02/05/2007 10:24:45 AM PST
by
bondjamesbond
(Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
To: bondjamesbond
If you don't call this a success, you have very high standards for advertising efficiency. That was not your initial argument:
My contention is that they were designed to provoke a police response, that would get Aqua Teen Hunger Force front page positioning.
The fact that the police response greatly multiplied the exposure was just added bonus (well worth the payoff that TBS is handing to Boston officials to make them feel better for making fools of themselves).
What the ad campaign was designed to do was create a buzz on the street for those in 'the know'. And judging from the previous couple weeks of YouTube responses to the lite-brite mooninites, it was working as designed.
And then... a notoriously incompetent city government got involved.
Ohh and BTW, had they been bombs, they would have gone off about 2 weeks ago.
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posted on
02/05/2007 10:43:54 AM PST
by
wizecrakker
(Trying to behave)
To: wizecrakker
Provoking the police response was the way to get the Aqua Teen Hunger Force known. Is this too hard to understand?
Cute little in-the-know advertising will only get you so far. Being on the front page of every paper and the top of every newscast is a much more effective way to communicate.
So, to spell it out for you, they were designed to provoke a police response. The purpose of doing so was to create a public awareness of Aqua Teen Hunger Force through the ensuing media stories about the police response. That argument has not changed.
And, as I said, they succeeded brilliantly.
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posted on
02/05/2007 11:08:04 AM PST
by
bondjamesbond
(Have you ever noticed that whatever the problem, the government's solution is always "more taxes"?)
To: bondjamesbond
So, to spell it out for you, they were designed to provoke a police response. Nonsense. They were designed to have people who don't know the series ask, WTF, and those that do know the series to get a chuckle.
Of all the cities, and over 3 weeks, and only the ninnies in Bahhhston got their panties in a wad.
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posted on
02/05/2007 11:13:14 AM PST
by
wizecrakker
(Trying to behave)
To: frankjr
I say send in Detective Assy McGee. He is a no-nonsense renegade cop who will get to the bottom of this! I worry about McGee, he has a crappy attitude.
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posted on
02/05/2007 11:37:57 AM PST
by
TC Rider
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To: Neidermeyer
I'm sure the Mooninites were pleased.
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posted on
02/05/2007 11:39:15 AM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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