[The_Reader_David]

Everybody has been watching too many movies. That's why these devices were effective advertising. They were designed to play on the public's perception of "BOMB".

You keep writing things like that. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE VIDEO AND SEEN THEM FOR YOURSELF? (Sorry to shout, but you show evidence of not having done so, since you keep asserting that they looked like bombs.)

Comments on the video do suggest a hypothesis, though: someone complained about people putting up LED's and the handwriting of the police officer who took the call was bad, and the next person who got the message thought it said IED's.

[bondjamesbond]

You keep writing things like that. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE VIDEO AND SEEN THEM FOR YOURSELF? (Sorry to shout, but you show evidence of not having done so, since you keep asserting that they looked like bombs.)

HAVE YOU LOOKED AT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN! (Sorry to shout, but it's a little noisy in here.)

I have stated, all along, that they don't look like bombs. I have stated that they have features that are characteristic to what people look for in bombs, whether through training or conditioning. This is what makes them effective advertisements.

If I'm walking down the street, and see yet another stupid sign, I don't even notice it. If I'm walking down the street and see a device attached to a piece of public infrastructure that has exposed wiring and a battery pack with blinking lights, I notice it. So does everybody else.