How about throwing the slick-e-boy marketing moron who thought this crap up. You want to punish the foot soldier, but let the mastermind get away scott free for his/her idiocy? The marketing doof should be in the clink for 10 times longer than this student foot soldier.
Toss them all in jail as far I am concerned. If they had permits to do this it wouldn't bother me....If I had been late or missed work I would be mad. Its a shame but we don't know what bombs will look like. I don't think these looked like bombs but what do I know about bombs? I don't like Turner and it would be fine to see him and his wife in the slammer.....From the foot soldier to the brains behind this they all ought to pay. Why wouldn't you just get a permit? Sounds easy enough to me.
My understanding from this morning's news is that there may be some criminal charges lodged against representatives of Turner, and I would think some civil action against the company and others as well, if only to recover the cost to the city for its reaction to this "threat."
Regardless of whether this was a harmless prank or a bad advertising idea, thing is -- in this day and age after 9/11, when people will panic at just about anything, it seems to me that someone in authority should have been notified that this was going to happen.