Martians Attack Boston!

SciFiDimensions ^ | February 2, 2007 | J. Neil Schulman

[BallyBill]

I saw Paris Hilton and thought we'd been invaded by Martians too. She has some force that makes some people think she is attractive.

[DB]

Boston attacked itself with its own stupidity.

[Patrick1]

They are pissed about global warming on Mars.

[Drammach]

My position from the beginning of this idiocy...

Boston police officials and politicians have been embarrassed and someone must pay..
That is, anyone but them..

Hopefully, the court system will advise them that embarrassment over one's own stupidity is not grounds for a legal action against others..

[r9etb]

Is it a requirement for "libertarian novelists" to have the middle name, 'Neil?'

[coydog]

What else can you expect from a constituency that keeps re-electing Fat Teddy?

[dfwgator]

Martians Attack Boston!

Celtics fans are wondering if they can play basketball.

[Continental Soldier]

No doubt the Boston officials should have been able to identify those circuit boxes as harmless before the city was virtually shut down. However, just who are those people who thought it was ok to post advertising without the required permits? And just who are those people who assumed that they owned Boston and could do whatever they pleased in the public arena without regard to anyone else's concerns? And who are those people who thought that a cartoon figure giving the finger to the public was anything that the public should embrace or even accept? Arresting the two idiots who placed those circuit boxes is not enough -- the $100,000. a year people who designed and directed that intrusive bit of advertising need to be arrested as well -- not just arrested, but dragged from their offices in handcuffs! Of course, now that Turner Broadcasting has agreed to pay for the "inconvenience," we can bet that all charges will be dropped. Sad, because those punks need to be taught a serious lesson!

[Duke Nukum]

85% of Bostonians spend 95% of their time getting sloshed at Bukowski's. No wonder they fell for an advertising scheme. Now they are trying to save face.

If rabid muslims had been chanting "death to America" in front of those bridges they'd have called that "multi-culturalism."

[Zeroisanumber]

Not to be too nitpicky, but Ignignokt and Err are from the Moon, not Mars.

[Deguello]

I expect that the directors of the emergency response teams took advantage of the situation to perform a live drill to evaluate all teams and communications much like they did in Austin two weeks ago.

[ladyjane]

I suspect those punks will be taught a lesson. They're going to need some cosmetic surgery and new identities.

[Joe 6-pack]

[Dr.Deth]

And Bruins fans are wondering if they can skate.

[grjr21]

[Bean Counter]

Operation Mayhem **ping**

[Petronski]

OMG! It's a suicide bomber! O noes!

[DBrow]

"ok to post advertising without the required permits?"

In the enlightened (pun intended) state of Massachusetts one (technically) cannot post a Yard Sale sign on a telephone pole without a permit, or post a notice that your band is playing at a local club without government approval. If you've ever been there you'll see that the law is not enforced.

There are stickers on the toll booths, on the subway, on street signs, all advertising some hip thing or other*.

The Aqua Teen signs had LEDs on them, making them stand out in this environment of laser printed notices and small stick-ons and even stencils on the sidewalk near MIT. The AT signs were as bright as traffic lights, and were not seen at all by Boston's Finest until someone called one in (I think four calls in one hour).

*I had to travel to Cambridge, Technology Square, in fact, and someone had plastered the area with 8 1/2 x 11 posters with IRRITABLE COLON? as the big bold headline, an ad looking for participants in a medical study, I mean, all over, light poles, subway stations, mail boxes, the many electrical boxes Cambridge puts all over. I would guess easily 500 in the space between the subway stop and the building I had a meeting in. Some band had put their adhesive stickers on several of them as well as on store windows.

[DBrow]

OSIM!