These things were not made from a Lite-Brite. They were made with LEDs wired into place. You can tell that just by looking at them. No way you are going to get the kind of brightness you need from a couple of D-Cells through a Lite-Brite.
The design of these things was not accidental. They were not cobbled together by some dumb kid. They were designed to attract attention from people who have been trained to look for bombs.
You play with fire, you get burned. Burn, baby, burn.
>>They were designed to attract attention from people who have been trained to look for bombs.
Please go read Caesar Soze's post #48, and get back to us on that.
Show me one picture of a bomb that has lights on it. Do Terrorists wearing bomb belts stroll through Isreali checkpoints with flashing LEDs "Bomb here, bomb here"
Don't be stupid. Bombs don't EVER, EVER, EVER have lights on them advertising themselves. Not once, not ever. It only happens in the movies.
Has it struck anyone funny that the liberals, who are shouting so loudly, overreact when they see a blinking light?
Listen folks, this isn't 24 where every bomb has a digital countdown clock. If they were bombs, they would have looked like bombs--not some kids toys.
After listening to the radio for five minutes, I knew this was a scam, or a scavenger hunt, or something silly. As soon as I got home and saw the picture, it proved it.
I can just see the weenies on Comm Ave marching one way to end the war, and then stampeding the other way if they see a rat cross the street.
And then they would sue the government for not warning them about the rat, or preventing it---without infringing on the rats rights.
Boston is full of very smart dopes.
The pictures I saw looked like signs, you know flat with flashing lights on them? I gotta say that I haven't seen too many bombs other than the standard stuff the military had like claymores and grenades and of course pictures of the unibombers handiwork, but I can assure you that claymores and grenades don't have flashing lights on them., and the unibomber didn't decorate his work to look like an advertising sign either.
I fail to see how making these signs actually brighter with LED's as opposed to D-Cell batteries makes them any more frightening. If anything, the fact that the designers were trying to make them MORE visible (with the image of a glowing cartoon character, mind you) would lead me to believe these things weren't dangerous, if I was spotting them on my commute to work.
Ya because, people who plant bombs really, really, REALLY want them to be discovered before they are able to be detonated. They never try to disguise the bombs.
Are you really Mayor Menino's spokesman?