I'm no fan of Deval Patrick, but I'm pretty confident that he was happy that the devices were harmless, but dismayed that people would be so irresponsible.
I would fault him for being dismayed instead of outraged.
At some point irresponsiblity becomes actionable. This is beyond that point.
Agreed.
I keep seeing both sides of this though. Very stupid to put devices with menacing characters on them and wires hanging out on bridges and stuff...but when a cop discovers the first one and a foreign exchange student owns up it's a stunt for a TV show why don't the cops say take them all down immediately or go to jail, end of panic?