Can someone post a picture of these things that caused such a stir? I agree - it wasn't a "hoax", if no intent to cause terror was involved.
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?
Then why the 4 calls to the police station to note the separate locations? You think alert citizens simultaneously noticed these things in four separate locations?
While they may not have intended to cause terror per se,, they clearly used predictable patterns of response to promote their own agenda. Just because they may not have accurately predicted the extent of the response, they were clearly applying what they did know, i.e. you call the police and report a suspicious device on a bridge, you're gonna get a response. And media. Which is the whole point of guerilla marketing. While the two schmucks in custody may be new to the game, Interference Inc. is not. They knew exactly what they were doing.