[DBrow]

"Vanilla Rasta knew exactly what the cops were there for,"

I can't know what he was thinking and I don't believe you can either.

If I placed something I thought was cool advertising somewhere, then three weeks later, there is some sort of hubbub about a bomb, why would I assume the flap was about my blinking sign?

If Vanilla Rasta (like that I do) had intentionally planted something that a rational person would see as a dangerous device (which would meet the definition of hoax) then maybe he would have thought, Oh hey, I think the bomb squad has been fooled by my "device".

Let's say you leave an LED lightstick (like a Streetlight) under a bench when you are at an outdoor, nighttime event, then later you hear that the park is cordoned off and is being evacuated. You'd think, it MUST be my lightstick, right? In case you have never seen one here's a link:

http://www.neonhusky.com/JShop/product.php/188/35/

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I can't know what he was thinking and I don't believe you can either.

Oh, come now. Based on Vanilla Rasta's background, his performance at the news conference in which he'd only discuss "haircuts of the 1970s," and now this, I think it's very reasonable to assume he knew exactly what he was doing. Also, given that the whole idea of a guerilla marketing campaign is to promote a product by causing flap by non-traditional (and cheap) means, isn't it obvious Vanilla Rasta intended to create a stir? Perhaps not this flavor of stir, but a stir nonetheless. VR learned the lesson of unintended consequences the hard way, but I don't feel sorry for him in the least bit. He hasn't shown one ounce of contrition; not a drop.