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"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?

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

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic terrorists."
-- Clarke's third law