Bomb Scare

The city of Boston was thrown into a panic when people mistook a promotion for the cartoon "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" for a bomb.
The device was a series of lights that looked like a face giving the middle finger.
Because it had 4 batteries people thought it was a bomb.



The plan was a guerilla marketing effort on the part of Adult Swim Network which airs on the cartoon network and like CNN is part of the Turner Broadcasting System.
Because the ad campaign was supposed to be underground the devices were just left in places.
The devices displayed a "Mooninite" -- an outer-space delinquent who makes frequent appearances on the cartoon -- greeting passersby with an upraised middle finger. But the discovery of nine of the light boards around Boston and its suburbs sent bomb squads scrambling throughout the day, snarling traffic and mass transit in one of the largest U.S. cities.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was indignant, threatening criminal charges and saying "It's all about corporate greed."
Just for the record, there is no way anyone in their right mind would have mistaken this for a bomb. Which is why dozens of other like devices were placed in other cities and in Boston over the past two weeks, and no one overreacted.


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