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You may have heard of the Boston bomb scare that closed down half the city today? Yeah it was a marketing campaign by Cartoon Network. Now tell me, how the fuck does this look like a bomb?

More Detailed Pictures Absolutely no place for explosives. If the duct-taped batteries even were C4 they wouldn't do shit with that amount in an open area.

(Quotes from a CNN article)
"Electronic light boards featuring an adult-cartoon character triggered bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday, spurring authorities to close two bridges and a stretch of the Charles River before determining the devices were harmless. Nine were reported around Boston on Wednesday, sending police bomb squads scrambling and snarling traffic and mass transit in one of the largest U.S. cities. The discovery of nine of the devices around metro Boston led state, local and federal authorities to close the Boston University and Longfellow Bridges, and block boat traffic from the Charles River to Boston Harbor."

Rep. Ed Markey, the senior member of the state's House delegation, said, "Whoever thought this up needs to find another job."

No, dumbass you need to get a new police force. Here is a clue – if a terrorist was going to plant a bomb somewhere it would not be in an immediately visible location and would sure as hell not light up at night! Also, great job finding these "bombs" 2 weeks after they were placed. Sure does make me feel safe.

"Scaring an entire region, tying up the T and major roadways, and forcing first
responders to spend 12 hours chasing down trinkets instead of terrorists is marketing run amok," Markey, a Democrat, said in a written statement. "It would be hard to dream up a more appalling publicity stunt."

No, this was a brilliant publicity stunt since the completely harmless lightboards will now put the show on every major TV network and the city of Boston paid for 90% of this advertising.

"I want to be certain that we take all of these reports very seriously," Mayor
Menino said in a written statement. "The coordinated response by all departments proves the system we have in place works."

No, it just shows you are more than willing to waste millions of taxpayer money and cause mass panic on something without stopping for a second to think about what precisely is going on.

Some officials have blamed Turner Media for not notifying the authorities of this marketing campaign and I agree they should have done that, however I believe that they legally had to have written an application in order to post something on city property anyways which makes me think that they did submit a notice and the city office just took the advertising fee without reading the report and ignored/forgot about it and are now trying to blame Turner for their own gross negligence and incompetence. Smoooth.