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.
Stop fantasizing and also being an apologist for overreacting idiots.
Okay, go to YouTube (there is a link to the relevant page at post 36) and look at the lighted signs being assembled, and put up. Then go to the copy of the FOX News report, and look at the sign with the exposed battery case.
The reason the battery case is exposed in the FOX footage is someone took the housing off! (The housing--if you didn't see it, watch the assembly footage again, and look at them as they are being put up.) The way they were put up they did not have exposed wires or exposed battery cases, and the lights looked steady, except in one shot which I think was a video effect or a defective switch on the sign. They were rectangular flat panels with their circuits hidden, and lots of LED's.
They DID NOT look like the standard popular conception of a bomb.
I still like the LED getting misread as IED hypothesis.