[steve-b]

A furious Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed yesterday to throw the book at the masterminds behind a guerrilla marketing campaign gone amok that plunged the city into bomb-scare pandemonium and blew nearly $1 million in police overtime and other costs.

They committed the most unforgivable of crimes -- they made the government look bad.

[Lurking in Kansas]

They committed the most unforgivable of crimes -- they made the government look bad.

Ditto. From the news:

The company said that they have been in place for two to three weeks in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

Boston was the only city that freaked out over cartoon characters. Why didn’t the other cities??