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Arrest Made In Boston's Hoax Device Incident
("Devices" Were Part Of A Marketing Campaign)
CBS4Boston ^
| 1/31/07
| CBS4Boston/AP
Posted on 02/01/2007 12:45:38 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: mware
If that's what went down, throw them under the jail.
41
posted on
02/01/2007 3:35:47 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: sgtbono2002
Has CNN been reporting on this story at all, anyone know?
42
posted on
02/01/2007 3:36:23 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: mware
And to clarify, "they" = the local guys who called 911.
I don't see Turner as being at fault on this. Again, we have the example of a number of other cities.
43
posted on
02/01/2007 3:36:56 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: babble-on
But still, I can't believe the authorities were actually detonating these things! When you consider the intelligence level of the "authorities" combined with their jackboot mindset then you begin to understand. When you see that pompous arrogant ass menino posturing on TV to hide the fact the the government was too stupid to realise the flashing lights were signs and not bombs it becomes clearer.
44
posted on
02/01/2007 3:38:01 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
To: Grut
Wrong.
Authorities took appropriate measures during an unknown situation. This comes after 9 were arrested for a terrorist plot in UK. It was the correct response from callers who stated that devices with circuit boards and wires protruding were placed on bridges/highways/hospitals...
To: FreedomPoster
Placing unauthorized devices or advertisements along a highway is a
crime in Massachusetts, although not a very big one - it's subject to a potential $10 to $100 fine plus recovery of the cost of removing the devices or advertisements. There also are more stringent
laws against defacing public or private property - but since the devices (at least in NYC) were only attached to metal by magnets, it's not clear that any property was defaced.
I suspect Turner will be more than happy to pay Boston for the cost of removing the devices. They've received more than $700,000 in free publicity as a result of this stunt.
To: conservative in nyc
Yeah, I'm fine with that.
Trying to inflate this to "IT LOOKED LIKE A BOMB! THEY INTENDED THAT!", as many, especially officials in Boston, seem to be doing, is just absurd.
47
posted on
02/01/2007 3:45:43 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: SoothSayerONETIME
I hope the Mooninites visit the city of Boston on a future episode. Their appearance would probably cause a mass panic that cripples the city and local economy.
48
posted on
02/01/2007 3:46:02 AM PST
by
LanPB01
To: FreedomPoster
If the men who placed the devices called 911 claiming that it looked like a bomb, they are toast. And the marketing company and Turner can also be on the hook if they directed them to do it as part of a marketing campaign.
To: Freedom4US
Here's a link to some pics...
Ad Pandemonium
I'd post the cartoon character here, but it looks like it's flipping the bird? Was that thing giving the finger to folks all over Boston?
50
posted on
02/01/2007 3:54:44 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: dawgmeat9
I suggest you go look at the video on post #33.
Not threatening at all.
Not big enough to hold enough explosives to do any real damage to a structure (they are thin with nothing hidden and clearly an electronic sign).
If someone were trying to bomb the public they'd just drop the bombs in public trash cans and not raise suspicions.
This whole episode is dumb, dumb, dumb.
51
posted on
02/01/2007 3:58:36 AM PST
by
DB
To: raccoonradio
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"
52
posted on
02/01/2007 3:59:03 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
To: Fresh Wind
53
posted on
02/01/2007 4:00:04 AM PST
by
DB
To: DB
Les Nessman reports otherwise
To: Reform4Bush
To: conservative in nyc
The latter seems pretty unlikely. Agree on the former, and rightfully so.
56
posted on
02/01/2007 4:06:32 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: Reform4Bush
We have wild turkeys all over the place around here.
They can fly. They normally hang out on the ground but if they feel threatened they can fly to get away.
57
posted on
02/01/2007 4:11:32 AM PST
by
DB
To: conservative in nyc
$700,000 is the easy part. Turner starts hitting a bumpy road once several hundred thousand people file a class action lawsuit for all the aggravation associated with this thing -- and Turner faces the possibility of paying out a 9-figure settlement.
58
posted on
02/01/2007 4:15:05 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: DB
Regardless of the facts of turkeys and their ability to become airborne, the reference (if you are too young or weren't a fan) was regarding a WKRP episode, to which I posted an extremely cumbersome URL to.
A more abbreviated link is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZByndN_ffyw
To: Reform4Bush
That helped...
Never saw much of that show. We only got one channel where I grew up and that wasn't on it...
60
posted on
02/01/2007 4:19:53 AM PST
by
DB
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