Could be your new home, dudes:
Posted on 02/06/2007 1:16:27 AM PST by raccoonradio
The bomb hoax bozos whose light-up devices sparked a Boston terror panic were caught on camera standing with spectators and filming the massive police response, the Herald has learned.
Transit police surveillance photos taken at the Sullivan Square MBTA Orange Line station as police swarmed around one of the suspicious devices Wednesday morning clearly show the two men, sources said.
Peter Berdovsky, 28, was photographed holding a video camera filming the police response, including the transit bomb squad cop blowing up the device at 10:21 a.m. His prankster partner Sean Stevens, 27, stood alongside him.'
The new evidence has surfaced amid speculation prosecutors may go easy on felony charges of planting a hoax device and disorderly conduct in return for some community service from the two men who were hired by a marketing firm to plant the cartoon promotional devices.
Berdovsky’s attorney, Jeffrey Pyle, said that his client was there filming the police response at the Sullivan Square scene, but only as a “video artist” responding to a friend’s call that there was a bomb scare near his Charlestown loft.
“He documents the world around him. He did not initially know that the event near his house was related to the (cartoon character) he placed there for Cartoon Network,” Pyle said. “He went home and called his employer, and they told him to sit tight.”
But their presence at the scene appears to contradict both men’s assertion that they did not know their actions had caused chaos.
“The minute they knew that police officers were racing across the city, firefighters were racing to the scene, and bomb techs were suiting up, and they did not call 911. That - that forms intent,” one high-ranking BPD official said last night. “Their being there could provide the proof of intent prosecutors need.”
Berdovsky’s employer, Interference Inc., along with Turner Broadcasting, agreed to make $2 million in restitution to the city yesterday and apologized for any inconvenience. No one in either company has been criminally charged. Stevens’ attorney, Michael Rich, did not return a call.
When asked why his client did not alert police that he was responsible for the device - which, by then, had sparked a massive law enforcement response and subway and highway shutdowns - Pyle said: “My client was assured by his employer that they would handle it.”
“The pictures show they were very interested in the whole scene. They had a decent camera with a telephoto lens. They were very carefully noting everything that was going on,” said one source who had seen the images. “They did not look like average spectators. They were actually so close to the scene, they had to be pushed back when we were clearing the area.”
Yesterday, Attorney General Martha Coakley said that she is engaged in ongoing negotiations with both suspects regarding the resolution of criminal charges.
But she said law enforcement officials were apparently kept in the dark intentionally, adding, “We believe at this stage that notification might have been sooner, could have been sooner, I’m not going to comment by whom.”
Could be your new home, dudes:
What a couple of dill-holes.
Interesting take. I really didn't get that from them though. Their "hair" press conference seemed like they were just a couple stoned out losers who were like "Look at me! See how cool I am? All my buddies are gonna like so laugh their asses off at this and I'll get a disorderly conduct...but I'm on TV!"
I do agree that the advert subcontractor that pulled this stunt in 8 or 10? cities should be looked over and I'm sure they will be.
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.' "
The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature", but beavers and their dams are.
But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity.
In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "Naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race, i.e. his own self-hatred.
In the case,of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot.
But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have.
Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women, it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural."
LAZARUS LONG
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