I have no problem with "busting" them for that. In fact they should have been.
But I do have a problem with the morons in charge shutting down a major city being too stupid to see what they obviously were and then blaming the whole over reaction on others.
Sure, THIS TIME.
Do you really believe that will be the case always? Would you be YOUR life on that?
The various emergency response teams all around the country have spent tons of money (ours) on equipment & toys. These incidents gives them a chance to bring all their stuff out and go into full response mode and play with their toys. Doing such justifies their expenditures and increases in future budgets.
How do we know what they were? We have drug smugglers using children's dolls and teddy bears.
We have palestinians using the shape of a pregnant woman to hide bombs.
Plastic explosives chan be shaped into anything, INSIDE anything.
The irony here is that Turner tought people knew this obscure cartoon. If anything, we should just simply ignore the show and the movie.