You've probably heard by now that the city of Boston was brought to its knees by a guerilla marketing campaign for the new Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. Boing Boing has been covering the story thoroughly.
And of course YouTube is getting its fair share of material:
If everyone in Boston is as quick-witted as this reporter, it's no wonder that the city went apeshit over some homemade Lite-Brites. This guy is so clueless he sounds like a bad parody. Listen to the gravity with which he discusses Err, a character "described as being rebellious and angry."
You can see on the screen that the scary cartoon lights were being labeled as a hoax, which of course implies that there was some sort of malice. As if the people who put these up thought in a million years that anyone would take more than a mild passing interest in them. If it were me it wouldn't have even crossed my mind that something so innocent would be blown up to such sensational levels.
Here's a more clear-headed account of the Mooninite Apocalypse:
These clips also do a fine job of highlighting the differences between Fox News and actual news programs.
So the two guys who apparently did it have been arrested (see the last two Boing Boing links above for details). Now the city of Boston will try to cover their own incompetence by pinning blame on a couple of fanboys. Hey, geniuses of Boston, terrorists don't advertise their explosives with bright colored lights. Kind of defeats the purpose. My question is, how much of this chaos and panic could have been avoided if the Boston authorities hadn't overreacted? Was anyone actually scared of these things until the Bomb Squad was rolled out and major streets were closed?
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When I call your name you will say here, and that will stand for "here I am rock you like a hurricane."
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