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I hope that if you see a light board with a bundle wrapped in duct tape strapped to the bottom attached to the underside of a bridge, you don't stand around picking your nose and proclaim it to be an art project.

It's so very easy for you to declare, "I got it, everyone else is stupid" after you were informed it was an advertising campaign for an obscure cartoon.

How lame is Boston that we’re frightened of flashing lights ? I’m reminded of another ad campaign – that of the Geico Caveman. I’m picturing the Neanderthal pointing at the Adult Swim Lite-Brite while cowering in fear and grunting like a monkey. Yep, that’s Boston for you !

Of course it doesn’t help that the city’s spokesman, Mayor Menino, is a dead ringer for Alley Oop.

Look at that thing! People in ten cities looked at it for two weeks. One person freaked out and now two people are probably going to jail for a looooong time to appease people like you and cover for the stupidity of the government we pay for.

"and proclaim it to be an art project."

But in nine of the ten cities, that's exactly what happened, for weeks!

Take a cruise through livejournal or myspace or flikr or tabblo or photobucket or Xanga or Youtube or devilducky or milkandcookies, sites where web people hang out, and you'll see that many many people looked up at the blinkies under the bridges and said, cool, over the two or three WEEKS they had to enjoy it.

Boston just had a bad day, with some real hoax bombs to deal with on top of these hoax hoax bombs.

If a reasonable person would conclude that these things were dangerous, why'd it take so long for a reasonable person, out of all the thousands (they were placed in walking areas near schools weeks ago) to drop the dime?

Why, in all that time, did the PD of all those cities miss these dangerous brightly lit signs, for weeks on end? You could see them for hundreds of yards since they were big 10mm LEDs powered by D cells instead of the usual button cells that those magnetic party lights use. They were as bright as traffic lights, and the cops in Boston missed these threatening dangerous things?