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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

Sure, THIS TIME.

Do you really believe that will be the case always? Would you be YOUR life on that?

Lets use some common sense.

Anything can be dangerous.

There's public trash cans all over the place.

One could put big - real - bombs in those and raise no suspicions.

The point being if terrorists want to kill you, they're not going to use a small thin light sign to do it.

If you want to "be safe" then you'll have to clear the streets of everything that could hide something including cars. Otherwise you can have car bombs in moving cars, parked cars, trash cans, trucks, newspaper dispensers and how knows what else.

There's no end to that mentality.

And if the explosives were "some place else" what's the point of these out in the open signs being some big threat?

All the posts regarding the "better safe than sorry" manner of thinking just don't seem realistic to me, sorry.
If you drive 1 mile down a city street, you could literally count thousands of devices that could potentially be a bomb in disguise.
If you are going to plant a bomb, you want to HIDE it, so you can set it off later at the appropriate time. You don't want anyone to see it, you don't want people to run away from it. You don't want all your work and risk to be for nothing.
Think of all the places where explosives could be planted and go undetected.
sorry, I'm still not buying it. This was gross overreaction and nearing pure stupidity both on the part of those who reported it, and even more-so, the authorities and media who made it out to be something huge.
Turner got 1000X what they paid for and expected, the US public looks like a bunch of lemming fools and the real terrorists are laughing their asses off right now at the freebie we just gave them.